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Unit 1 Nine to five
Inside view
Conversation 1
Janet What a wonderful view！This is such a great city. Do you ever get tired of living in London, Andy?
Andy "When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life;for there is in London all that life can afford."
Janet This is a quotation by Samuel Johnson, isn't it?
Andy Correct! So do you have any plans when you finish at Oxford?
Janet I've got another year to go, and then I suppose I'll go back home.
Andy And will you find a job?
Janet I think I'll have to do my Masters before I look for work. But I must admit London is very special. Do you think you would ever leave London?
Andy Sure!I'd love to come to China one day, and I like traveling. But I think I'll always come back here.
Janet Well, your roots are here, and there are so many opportunities.
Andy But have you ever thought of living in London for a year or two?
Janet Yes,but what could I do here? I had planned to become a teacher. But I've often thought if there was a job I could do here in publishing, maybe as an editor, I'd go for it.
Andy That sounds like a good idea. I think that would really suit you.
Janet Maybe I should update my CV and send it to one or two publishers.
Andy Don't make it look too good!
Janet Why not?
Andy Well,if you enjoy working with London Time Off, we don't want you working with anyone else!
Janet Oh, working with you and Joe, it's great fun, and really interesting. I couldn't think of a better way to find out about a city.
Andy So, maybe you should think about applying for a job with us.
Janet But do you think I'd stand a chance? I mean, I'm not sure if Joe likes me.
Andy Don't even think about it! Joe is very straight talking, and I promise you that you'd know if he didn't like you!
Janet Perhaps we should both update our CVs and look for jobs together.
Andy Hey,right! That would be fun.

Conversation 2
Janet Talking about future plans, how do you see your career developing?
Andy My career? Will,I like working for London Time Off. It's part of a larger media company called Lift Of USA, so there are lot's of opportunities. But…
Janet But what?
Andy It's not always very easy working with Joe. I mean, I think of he has a different agenda.I like his work, but sometimes I don't think his heart's in his job.
Janet How did he end up in London?
Andy He did media studies in the States, and then found a work as an gofer at Lift Off in New York.
Janet What's an gofer?
Andy Go for this, go for that. It's a word for the least experienced person in the film and TV industry. Then he came to London and get a proper job as an researcher at Lift Off UK, and then after a few years he got the producer's job on London Time Off.
Janet He's good at his job, isn't he?
Andy Yes. He's confident and very competent at what he does, so the people who work with him rate him quite highly.
Janet Except you?
Andy No,I rate him too. And I get on with him quite well, although we're not best buddies or anything like that. It's just that…I what his job!
Janet Now we know your little secret. I promise I won't tell anyone!
Andy It's OK,I suspect he knows it too. But if I can't be a producer on London Time Off, then I guess I'll find something elsewhere. Janet, there was something I was going to ask you.
Janet Sure, what is it?
Andy I was wondering…oh, it's nothing. Anyway, all this talk about your future career is making me thirsty. Let’s do for a drink.
Janet Whose round?
Andy Yours!

Outside view
Part 1
Samantha Graduation. What a day! Your life is about to begin! And then your parents say…
Mother Get a job.
Samantha I tell you! Looking for your first job out of college can be pretty hard. Reading all the job listings is so annoying. Even trying to figure out what the actual job is can be difficult. Searching through the want ads can be so boring. And writing your resume is really hard work.
Samantha I don’t have that day open.
Samantha Getting a job interview, and than going on it– the whole process is pretty tough .
Interviewer Sorry to keep you waiting. Uh, have a seat. I have your resume here, and you’re interested in the assistant’s position.
Samantha Yeah. Yeah, I am.
Interviewer Well, the right candidate for this job has to be very outgoing and sociable. After all, it is a sales position.
Samantha Well, I’m a real extrovert. Definitely.
Interviewer And the right candidate has to have great self-confidence. Customers need to fell that you know what you’re talking about.
Samantha Well, I’m really self-confident. Um, I know what I’m talking about and I think I can project that.
Interviewer So, what skills would you bring to this job?
Samantha Well, I realize that I’m completely overqualified for the position. I mean, um, in my last job, I was running the whole place.
Interviewer Oh, so you’ve supervised people?
Samantha Yep. Five of them. So, obviously I could do this job, no problem. I also have really good computer skills. Um, what else do you want to know about me?
Interviewer Uh …
Samantha Even though I was trying really hard, even though I had sent out about 300 resumes, even though I asked all my friends and relatives if they knew of anything, I wasn’t getting anywhere! Despite all my best efforts, I was still unemployed.

Part 2
Mother Please, why don’t you see a career counselor? I’ll pay for it. Anything to help you get a job!
Phyllis Samantha, I’m Phyllis Stein. Welcome.
Samantha Oh, hi, Phyllis. Nice to meet you.
Samantha So. I figure, heck, why not? I met with Phyllis Stein, a professional job coach.
Phyllis Interviewing is vital to getting the job that you want.
Samantha She showed me how to prepare for an interview by doing research on the position and the company. And later, she coached me on my interviewing skills.
Phyllis I am going to pretend to be your interviewer, and then we’ll stop it and replay it and look at the video and see what we could learn from that. OK?
Phyllis I don’t think that you should go into an interview having not practiced with some of the questions that are pretty standard.
Phyllis Tell me about yourself.
Samantha Well, my parents – my mom is a social worker, and my dad is an engineer.
Phyllis Your preparation is really important.
Phyllis What do you know about our organization?
Samantha Well, I saw on, um, the Internet that you do business publishing? Right?
Phyllis There’s a whole range of things that have to do with how you present yourself.
Phyllis Why should I hire you?
Samantha Oh, well, um, I’m a really outgoing person, and I like, I like people a lot. I’m responsible and nice.
Phyllis You need to think about what the interviewer is actually looking for.
Phyllis Samantha, what was a major problem that you’ve encountered and how did you solve it.
Samantha I haven’t really had any problems to deal with.
Phyllis Thank you. Now, let’s look at your mock interview on videotape.
Phyllis I think it boils down to preparation, presentation, and understanding what the interviewer is looking for.
Phyllis Tell me about yourself.
Samantha Um, well, my name is Samantha Green and, um, I grew up in Cambridge and, um, I went to Boston College.
Phyllis Another way of answering it is not telling about yourself, but telling about yourself in relationship to the job. So, they don’t care so much about your parents and that your want to live in Cambridge. They may need you to be able to be a troubleshooter. You use some examples in your life from being a troubleshooter.
Samantha I haven’t really had any problems to deal wit.
Phyllis One of things that someone who is an assistant in a trade show is doing, is dealing with problems.
Phyllis You need to be sure that you stay, sourt of, on target with presenting…presenting yourself in the strongest possible way.
Part3
Samantha This time I felt a lot more confident when I went in for interview.
Samantha I have developed strong communication skills. In college I worked on the school paper, and I’ve brought some writing samples to show you. I also worked every summer at a bed-and-breakfast. I worked a lot with our guests. I booked reservations over the phone, got them what they need, and handled any complaints.
Samantha Well, I feel like I didn’t really well, We’ll see.
Speaker 1 Making a good first impression is the most important part of a job interview.
Speaker 2 Arriving on the important parts of a job interview.
Speaker 3 It’s very important that you are being confident and you’re being clear in your answers and listening carefully.
Speaker 4 Not fidgeting and being confident are the most important things in a job interview.
Speaker 5 Writing a thank-you note is the most important thing you want to do after a job interview.
Speaker 6 And go in there with a firm handshake.

Listening in
Passage 1
“It’s not enough to ask what successful people are like…It is only by
asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who
succeeds and who doesn’t.”
This is the basic idea of an intriguing book called Outliers, by the
American journalist Malcolm Gladwell. The book explores the factors
which contribute to people who are extremely successful in their careers,
for example, the role that family, culture, and friendship play.
Gladwell examines the causes of why the majority of Canadian ice
hockey players are born in the first few months of the calendar year, what
the founder of Microsoft Bill Gates did to achieve his extraordinary
success, and why the Beatles managed to redefine the whole of popular
music in the 1960s.
Gladwell points out that the youth hockey league in Canada recruits
from January the first, so that players born early in the year are
bigger, stronger and better athletes than others born later in the year. And
because they have this advantage at the start of their sports career, they’re
given extra coaching, and so there’s a greater chance that they’ll be picked
for an elite hockey team in the future.
He calls this phenomenon accumulative advantage, a bit like the idea
that the rich get richer and poor get pooer. Success depends on the process
by which talented athletes are identified as much as it does on their own
abilities.
Another aspect which contributes to success is the 10,000 hour rule.
Great success demands an enormous amount of time for practice and
Training. For example, the Beatles performed live in Hamvurg Germany
more than 1,200 times over four years, much more than the 10,000 hours Gladwell claims is necessary for great success. So by the time they returned to England, they had developed their talent and sounded completely different from any other group.
In the same way , Bill Gates had thousands of hours’ worth of programming because he had access to a computer at his high school. He also became a teenager just at the right time to take advantage of the latest developments in computer technology.
All through the book, Gladwell repeats his claim that it’s not just talent or genius which determines someone’s success, but opportunity, advantage and even simple good luck.
Outliers has met with extraordinary success, matched only by Gladwell’s own career over 25 years in journalism. As a result, many critics have seen it as an autobiography, in which the writer appears to be apologizing for his own personal achievements. But the idea that you have to be born at the right moment, in the right place and in the right family, and then you have to work really hard is a thought-provoking way of revisiting our traditional view of genius and great achievement. It’s certainly worth reading, as long as you don’t take it too seriously.
Passage2
Presenter : Hi we’re talking about typical working hours in the US and in Brazil. Eric…um… you’re from the States, tell me what are the typical working hours in the States?
Eric : Er…traditionally people go to work at 9 o’clock in the morning and they finish at about 5,so sort of a 9 to 5.
Presenter : And, and Penny I…I know you’re English but you work in Brazil, what are the hours in Brazil?
Penny : Um varies slightly, sometimes you can start um on an earlier shift, say, 8 o’clock in the morning to 5 um or 9 until 6. But in Brazil often people will work longer hours than this.
Presenter : Right, right, OK. And what kind of clothes do you wear? I mean do you, do you dress up formally or in a relaxed way?
Eric : It used to be that you would wear a jacket and a tie to work for…for men but er nowadays an open shirt is OK. You don’t necessarily have to wear a tie and sometimes on a Friday you can wear a pair of jeans to work.
Presenter : Oh right, the dress down Friday?
Eric : The dress down Friday ,that’s right.
Presenter : Does that still happen?
Eric : Yes, yes sure it does.
Presenter : And how about in Brazil?
Penny : Um it’s fairly casual, quite informal, um I mean you need to look neat and tidy obviously, but you, you have your own choice really on what you would wear, there are no rules and regulations. It’s important to look smart but be comfortable.
Presenter : Right, yeah and do you have meal breaks or is that… you just fit in meals when you can or…?
Eric : Lunch, lunch is usually an hour, sometimes a little shorter if you have to do a lot of work from your desk.
Presenter : Yeah. How about Brazil?
Penny : That’s the same, about an hour.
Presenter : And, and with overtime, I mean, if you… I mean you’re obviously contracted to do a certain number of hours. What happens if you do more than the hours that you… that’s in your… that are in your contract?
Eric : I have to make a fairly strict record of my hours so if I go beyond 5 o’clock on most days I put in for overtime.
Presenter : Right.
Eric : And it’s… the first hours is one hour of overtime and then there’s I think 15 minute periods after that. So I could work an hour and a quarter.
Presenter : And you’d be paid for the quarter hours?
Eric : That’s right, by the quarter hour.
Presenter : How about in Brazil?
Penny : It’s, it’s a lot looser in Brazil actually. We, we often end up doing overtime but unfortunately not paid.
Presenter : Fine. That’s hard luck. And what about holidays, what about in the States? You don’t have much holidays in the States, do you?
Eric： No, when you, when you start at a company you get two weeks holiday or two weeks vacation as we say…
Presenter Yeah
Eric Um then it’s usually not until you’ve been at the company for about five years that they give you another week. So you get