Tips for job interview success

Teaching Aims:

1. Enhance students’ reading abilities.

2. Enable Ss to adopt the strategy understanding incomplete sentences used for emphasis.

Teaching important points:

1. Help Ss gain some knowledge about job interviews.

2. Help them learn some language points.

Teaching methods:

1. Improve the students’ reading comprehension.

1. Practice to get the students to master what they’ve learnt.

2. Discussion to make every student work in class.

Teaching aids:

1. the multi-media

2. the blackboard.

Teaching procedures:

Step 1. Lead- in with pictures.

Step 2 Skimming

1. What is the lecture transcript about?

2. How many parts does the interview process have?

3. What should you do to increase your chances of success in the interview?

Step 3 Scanning

Para 1-2.

1. What is the professor going to talk about?

2. What is an interview?

3. What’s the purpose of the interview?

4. After getting much information about the company, what should you do next?

5. How do you practice your interview?

6. What should you feel if you are prepared properly?

Para 3-6

1. How many states does an interview process have? What are they?

2. How important is the first part, preparation in the interview?

3. In order to get prepared, where can you get much information about the company?

4. The first impression is very important, how should we prepare for the first impression?

Para7-10

1. What is the best time you arrive for the interview?

2. What should you do during the interview?

Para 11-12

1. What should you do after the interview?

2. Why do we do this?

Step 4 Consolidation

Fill in the blanks according to the text.

When your application is successful you’re asked to go for an i____. The purpose of the interview is not only to find the s___ person for the position, but also provides o_____ for job candidates to find out more about the job. Interview process can s___ into three parts: first, p____, the k__ to getting the job; second, the interview itself; and finally, what you should do after the interview. Next, think about some questions you might be asked. Don’t worry about having ____ on the day of the interview. First i____ are important, so wearing s___ clothes when you’re go for an interview. When you arrive for interview, make sure you are ____. During the interview, remember to be e____. Using _____ to express yourself in perfect time. Listen closely and answer carefully. After interview you should follow up by writhing to the company to express thanks.

Step 5 Reading strategy

Understanding incomplete sentences used for emphasis.

1) In terms of incomplete sentences to denote emphasis, what parts of the

sentence are missing?

2) Which words does this kind of sentence often begin with?

Analyse the following incomplete sentences.

1. Or better yet, do practice interviews with a friend.

2. So now I want you to imagine that it’s the day of the interview.

Step 6 Language points:

1. … you won’t have to answer questions off the top of your head during the interview.

off the top of one’s head 信口地

2. Don’t worry about having butterflies in your stomach before the interview.

have butterflies in one’s stomach

(做某事前)驚慌，緊張

Eg. I always have butterflies in my stomach just before I perform on stage.

3. Smile when you shake hands with the interviewer and look him or her in the eye.

look somebody in the eye

直視某人，正視某人

Eg. I asked him to look me in the eye and tell me what he had done with my bike.

4. You should follow it up by writing to …

follow up 對……采取進一步行動，加強

Eg. Lucy followed up her interview with a telephone call.

5. Nod your head when you agree with…

nod one’s head 點頭

Eg. She nodded her head to show that she agreed with me.

Homework:

1. Read the passage again after class and underline the difficult and important points.

2. Write down the results of the discussion.