求職英文 (Employment Applications)


　
Exercise 72
I. Pre-Listening Exercise
II. Listening Exercise
III. Post-Listening Exercise

Purpose:

Introducing professional and /or research experiences / 介紹研究及工作經驗

　

I. Pre-Listening Exercise [Top]

Check the meanings of the following words and expressions:

  • actively engaged in
  • public engineering projects
  • Taiwan High Speed Rail project
  • Taipei Rapid Transit System
  • National Highway projects
  • governmental deficit
  • trend
  • construction projects
  • strong analytical skills
  • derivative pricing
  • innovative

II. Listening Exercise [Top]
1. Listen to the conversation by pressing the "Play" button and then answering the following questions. Press the "Final score" button to check your quiz results.


1. How many years has Benson been an engineer?
A. three
B. five
C. six

2. Why has Benson been able to learn how to evaluate a project’s financial plan?
A. owing to the increasingly governmental deficit
B. owing to the trend to finance large public engineering construction projects
C. both A and B

3. Which word is the most similar in meaning to “innovative”?
A. creative
B. hostile
C. innocent

4. Which word is the most similar in meaning to “analytical”?
A. determined
B. innovative
C. logical

5. Which word is the most similar in meaning to “deficit”?
A. surplus
B. shortage
C. abundance

Score =

2. Listen to the story again as you read the audiotranscript.

III. Post-Listening Exercise [Top]
1. Read the audiotranscript with a partner or change some of the information to adapt it to your situation.

2. Write a paragraph that introduces your professional and/or research experiences. View the accompanying Power Point presentation on details of how to write this assignment.

3. Write four questions beginning with “How” to ask someone about their professional and/or research experiences and then answer them. The question does not have to come directly come from the listening exercise.
Example: Which large public engineering projects has Benson actively engaged in?
Answer: the Taiwan High Speed Rail, Taipei Rapid Transit System, and National Highway projects
Example: Which company did you work at following university graduation?
Answer: IBM

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