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1A
Success
1B
Listening:
Sentence completion (Part 2)
Speaking:
Vocabulary: feelings; Long turn (Part 2)
Reading
and Use of English:
Multiple matching
(Part 8); Word formation (Part 3)
Vocabulary:
Collocations (adjectives + nouns; verbs +
nouns; phrasal verbs and expressions with
take
)
Listening:
Developing skills: Separating main points from
details; Listening for specific information (Part 2)
Language development:
Mixed verb forms
Writing:
Letter: Using an appropriate register (Part 2)
development:
The passive; Register
Reading and Use of English:
Open cloze (Part 2)
Writing:
Letter of request (Part 2)
Language
Lead-in
1
Look at the photographs. What did these people have to do to achieve success?
importance for each photo (1 = the most important, 10 = not important at all).
ability to take risks a supportive family clear focus determination
hard work innate ability luck ruthlessness self-confidence
financial security
2
a
How important are the following factors in becoming successful? Put them in order of
b
Compare your answers and discuss, giving examples from your experience.
c
What differences would there be for a successful sportsperson?
3
How important is success to you? Is it more important than friends and family?
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1A
Finding a job
Reading
(Paper 1 Part 8)
Before you read
1
a
Read the title, introduction and text headings. Which jobs do you
think are the most and least prestigious?
b
What qualifications, personal qualities, work experience, etc.
would you need in order to get one of these jobs? What might
hold you back from achieving your aim?
Scanning
2
a
Read the questions first, highlighting the key points that are
reported. This will help you find the information you are looking
for in the text. The first one is done for you.
b
Read each extract quickly and highlight information which
answers the questions.
Multiple matching
EXPERT STRATEGY
Scan the sections to find ideas
or information which answer
the questions, but make sure the
meaning is exactly the same.
See page 169 for a full list of
strategies.
HELP
3
Read the strategy, then do the task. Use the Help notes for
support with certain items.
For questions
1–10,
choose from the people (A–D). The people may be
chosen more than once.
Which person
overcame a financially disadvantaged background
to become successful?
was rewarded for all the effort put into
a work placement?
believes that personal recommendation
was the main factor in obtaining a job?
appreciated being offered encouragement
and expertise as a student?
is aware that knowing influential people
would have been a career benefit?
used to feel depressed by the lack of job opportunities?
finds the prospect of having to pay back
a student loan daunting?
had a couple of false career starts?
is unsure about future career prospects?
had a strong preference about what kind of place to
study at?
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
1 More than one person had
financial problems, but who
was quite poor at one stage of
his/her life?
3 Look for an expression that means
confirm somebody’s good character
or ability
in the text.
5 Look for a phrase which means
knowing influential people
.
Discussion
4
5
What do all these successful people seem to have in common?
Check the meaning of these key words from the text.
EXPERT WORD CHECK
against the odds CV foresee half-hearted master’s degree
networking portfolio scrape through shadow (v) vital
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Module 1
Success
1A
The secret of my success
Four high-flying graduates talk about what it takes to land a top job in one of the elite professions.
A
The barrister
At the age of nine, without a word of English, Hashi was
sent from Kenya to live in Britain, where he was raised
exclusively on state benefits, with very little to live on.
‘I attended badly performing schools and was always
moving around between different relatives.’ Despite this,
Hashi managed to scrape through his exams and get into
university to study law. Much later, having done a master’s
degree, he was inspired to become a barrister so that
he could represent people in court. ‘But first you have
to do a work placement where you shadow a barrister.
Unfortunately, it took me 18 months before I was accepted
because I didn’t have any contacts in the profession. It
isn’t fair, but there is no point trying to pick a fight with
a system.’ Now a junior barrister at a top firm, Hashi
attributes this outstanding achievement against the odds
to a combination of the people who believed in him, the
scholarships and loans which enabled him to afford the
course, strong self-discipline and a lot of hard work.
C
The banker
While still at the London School of Economics (LSE),
Wen Du got some work experience in banking. ‘LSE
helps you to find these work placements but it’s still
quite tough, so I had to do loads of networking. When
you are eventually looking for a job, you need certain
academic qualifications so companies will be interested
in interviewing you. But, after that, it’s more about how
much you know about banking, so experience while you
are still at university is vital. I was working 12–13 hours a
day during my placements but you take long hours in your
stride provided you are learning. After I finished university,
I was offered a job at one of my work placements.
However, I had the opportunity to do a master’s degree
in finance, so I did that first. For me, salary isn’t the main
priority in a first job; it’s about how much you can learn
and how much responsibility your line manager will give
you. I want to do well, but because there are so many
uncertainties in our field, I can’t foresee where I’ll be in
five years.’
B
The fashion designer
Having set her heart from childhood on a career in
costume design, Lilly worked in the theatre straight
after school, only to realise that this job wasn’t for her.
Literature, which she tried next, bored her. ‘So I sent
some drawings off and was accepted for an art degree,
which I loved because I had tutors who knew what they
were talking about. But it was the head of the course
on my master’s degree in fashion who really helped
me to develop my confidence and individual style.
Every summer, I was taken on for a three-month work
placement, organised by the college. I took these really
seriously – I can’t understand people who are half-hearted
about them. In my second year I was making prints 16
hours a day for a famous designer and some of them got
used in his fashion collection.’ However, though Lilly did
work for a number of well-known designers, there were
also discouragingly long periods of unemployment before
she finally got a permanent job.
D
The architect
Having eventually settled on architecture as a career,
Amandine came to London from the USA and started
building a portfolio of her work by attending local college
courses. This got her onto a university foundation art
course and then into the highly competitive Architectural
Association (AA) school. ‘I picked the AA because it
has such a close-knit family atmosphere, which for me
is essential. But I knew I couldn’t go there unless I got a
scholarship because the fees are so high, especially given
that the course takes seven years. Even though I had
two-thirds of it paid for me, I still owe a fortune; the debt
is a huge weight on your shoulders at my age. I now have
a job in a company that has always interested me, thanks
to friends that worked here and could vouch for me. It’s
great to have an impressive CV but even better to have
a good character reference.’
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1A
Module 1
Success
Vocabulary
Collocations: adjectives + nouns
1
a
Complete each sentence with an adjective from
A and a noun from B.
A
close-knit
B
community
workload
deadlines
priority
salary
variety
heavy
high
main
tight
wide
Phrasal verbs and expressions with
take
3
a
Circle the correct prepositions in 1–8. Then
replace the phrases in
italics
in sentences a–h
with one of these expressions in the correct form.
1
take something
in / at
your stride
2
be taken aback
with / by
someone
3
take no notice
at / of
something
4
take pleasure
of / in
something
5
take pity
on / at
someone
6
take advantage
of / with
something or someone
7
take exception
with / to
something
8
take pride
in / of
something/someone.
a
Have you ever
used a particular situation to get
what you want from
something/someone?
b
What things do you
ignore?
c
What do you
enjoy doing?
d
Have you ever
been very surprised or shocked by
someone’s behaviour?
e
Which difficult things do you
do without effort?
f
Have you ever helped someone that you
felt
sorry for?
g
Which of your achievements do you
feel a great
sense of self-respect about?
h
Have you ever
been angry or upset by
anything
someone has said?
b
Ask each other the questions in Exercise 3a,
using the expressions with
take.
Did anything
surprise you?
1
How much does finding a job with a
matter to you?
2
What is the
for you when looking for
a job?
3
Are you good at meeting
?
4
Would you be willing to take on a
?
5
Would you enjoy being part of a
at work?
6
How important is it for you to have a
of work to do?
b
Ask and answer the questions in Exercise 1a
about your attitude to jobs.
Verbs + nouns
2
a
Underline one word/expression in each set
that does not normally collocate with the word(s)
in bold.
1 take something
personally / severely / seriously
2 make
the best of something / time for something /
the opportunity for something
3 take
a list / no for an answer / the time to do
something
4 hand in
your resignation / your business / your essay
5 do
a course / law / a good impression
6 have
a speech / a career / an impact
b
Tell each other two true things about your
own life and one untrue thing, using the
expressions in Exercise 2a. Ask your partner to
guess which one is untrue.
4
a
Complete the text with words from Exercises 1–3.
My
(1)
priority after leaving university was to
try and pay off some of my student loan. I applied
for jobs, but the interesting ones had all been
snapped up.
I ended up at a burger bar and decided
to
(2)
the best of it.
I was a bit taken
(3)
at first by the
(4)
workload, but I took it all in my
(5)
and learnt
things which
have stood me in good stead
later in
life. Dealing with a
(6)
variety of people
from all
walks of life
was
part and parcel
of the job and
I use these skills to help me with problems which
crop up
nearly every day in my present job as a
journalist.
b
Look at the idiomatic expressions in bold and
discuss possible meanings.
Discussion
5
At what age do people normally start working
in your country? How important is it to have a
work placement to get experience before you are
offered a permanent job?
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Module 1
Success
1A
Use of English 1
(Paper 1 Part 3)
Word formation
1
2
Look at the title and guess what the article will be about.
Read the article and work out which part of speech (e.g. adjective)
fits in each space.
support with certain items.
3
a
Read the strategy, then do the task. Use the Help notes for
EXPERT STRATEGY
Read the whole sentence, not just
the line, to work out your answers.
See page 167 for a full list of
strategies.
HELP
For questions
1–8,
read the text below. Use the words given in capitals
at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap
in the
same line.
There is an example at the beginning (0).
The office as a playground
Having set up an IT server company when he was
only 19, entrepreneur Daniel Foster’s next project
was to create an environment which would bring a
feeling of
(0)
playfulness
into the workplace and help
avoid stress. He believes that, for young people
growing up with technology, there is no real
(1)
these days between work and home. Although
his company’s offices look dreary from the outside,
appearances can be
(2)
. Inside the building,
amongst the games consoles, football tables and floor
cushions, workers are barefoot and
(3)
dressed in
shorts, rather than in more conventional suits and ties.
Work still goes on though. Daniel’s
(4)
regard fun
as a reward rather than an excuse not to work and
he justifies the
(5)
cost by pointing out that happy
relaxed staff tend to be more
(6)
in their work.
He also believes that a pleasant atmosphere helps with
the
(7)
of staff. Workers from one of his main
(8)
are often amongst the first to apply for any
job vacancies.
1 What suffix do you need to add to
make this abstract noun?
3 This word needs two changes –
a prefix to make the opposite of
the adjective, and a suffix to make
an adverb.
4 Is this singular or plural?
PLAY
DIVIDE
DECEIVE
FORMAL
EMPLOY
ADD
PRODUCE
RECRUIT
COMPETE
b
Make a note of the new words you created in Exercise 3a and
other parts of speech connected to them. Underline the stressed
syllable in each word.
Discussion
4
How important is the environment you work or study in?
Give reasons.
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