Review 2 · Units 4–5

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Remember these?Vocabulary
4. 4Match the wordsVocabulary exercise
5. 5Mira's next stepVocabulary exercise
6. 6Check your understandingReading comprehension
7. 7Listen: Dario's tipsListening comprehension
8. 8Grammar from units 4–5Grammar rule
9. 9Grammar checkGrammar exercise
10. 10Find the mistakeGrammar exercise
11. 11Say it naturallySpeaking practice
12. 12The interviewSpeaking practice
13. 13Let's discussDiscussion
14. 14Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: closest meaningVocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: Paul's next interviewGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: a message to a contactDiscussion

Words

• requirement/rɪˈkwaɪərmənt/

  something that you must have or do, like a skill, a degree or experience for a job

• preferred/prɪˈfɜːrd/

  wanted, but not required: you can still apply without it

• tailor/ˈteɪlər/

  to change something so that it fits a particular person, job or purpose

• cliché/kliːˈʃeɪ/

  a phrase that people use so often that it no longer means much

• referral/rɪˈfɜːrəl/

  when someone recommends you for a job, or sends you to a person who can help

• hear back/ˌhɪr ˈbæk/

  to get an answer from someone you wrote to or spoke to

• competitor/kəmˈpetɪtər/

  a company or a person trying to win the same customers, or the same prize, as another

• acquire/əˈkwaɪər/

  to buy or get something, especially a company or part of a company

• back up/ˌbæk ˈʌp/

  to show that what you say is true, with an example, facts or numbers

• availability/əˌveɪləˈbɪləti/

  when you are free: when you can start a job, or the days and hours you can work

• deal with/ˈdiːl wɪð/

  to take action to solve a problem, or to handle a difficult person or situation

• qualifications/ˌkwɑːlɪfɪˈkeɪʃnz/

  the skills, experience, education and certificates that make you right for a job

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Before we look back at units 4–5:

1. How many times have you changed jobs (or schools)? What made you decide to move?
2. What would you want to know about a company before you said yes to a job there?
3. Who gives you the best career advice? Why do you listen to them?

Grammar rule

Grammar from units 4–5

Unit	Grammar	Example
4	words + prepositions (for, in, with, at, to, about)	Our new driver is good at finding shortcuts. Which projects are you responsible for?
4	the present perfect + for / since (still true) · the past simple (finished)	She has managed the café since 2019. She drove a taxi from 2014 to 2019.
4	to + verb or -ing	We plan to open a second store. She avoids driving at night. Thanks for calling me back.
5	the passive, present and past: be + past participle	Our trucks are washed every Friday. The old station was turned into a library by the city.
5	can / could / be able to	My son can swim now. As a child, I could run for hours. Last night, we were able to get the last train. Next year, you will be able to vote.
5	the present perfect (experience) · the past simple (the details)	Have you ever made a big mistake at work? Yes, I have. In 2019, I sent a client the wrong file.

Things to watch. After a preposition, use -ing. Since goes with the start, and for with how long; with a finished time (from … to, in 2019, last year, ago) or When…?, use only the past simple. After enjoy, avoid, finish, keep and look forward to, use -ing; after want, hope, plan, decide, offer and would like, use to + verb. In the passive, the tense is in be, and the participle stays the same. Can has no future form (will be able to), and for one success in the past, use was / were able to, not could (could is fine for a general ability in the past, and with see, hear and understand). In American English, the past simple is also correct in experience questions (Did you ever…?) and with just, already and yet.