C. Interview

-Come in. Pleas, take as it.

-Thank you.

-I’ am Rose Ripper, by the way. PR manager.

-Christine Belly, you’re looking for a temporary office work.

-That’s right.

-How old are you, Christine?

-I am 18.

- That’s rafter young for a kind of responsibility we give people. What experience have you told?

-Well I ‘we just left school actually. And I am looking for a job between now when I go to college.

-If does not sound a sit we can help, Christine. You see our clients are very demanding specially when if comes to a new office technology.

-Oh, that is no problem. I look extra classes in office skills at school.

- That’s good. Perhaps you’d like to outline what you have been doing?

-I started by learning keyboard skills. Then I went on to learn about work processing and database management. Would you like to see my certificates.

-Very impressive. You seen very qualified from the technical point of view. But how well do you thing you’ll get along with people in an office?

Ex. 6 Listen to the recording “Business Communications”.

Pre-listening exercises

The following words are found in the conversation - office supplies, fax, brochure, service, computers, answering machines. What do you think is the main topic of the conversation?

Listening exercises