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Lesson 5
by Paolo Rossetti

Topic  : Job Ad
Grammar: Adjectives
Level  : Intermediate
Audio test         Audio
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Vocabulary

Company: Intertech Computer Networking Corp.
Location: Santa Monica, California, USA

Position: Sales Person
Department: Sales
Responsibilities: Develop new customers for computer networks and
communications. Excellent base salary + commissions.
Requirements: Fluent in English. Basic knowledge of computer parts,
hardware and software - some direct experience of web communications.
Contact: Danielle Wong, 1380 Blair Drive, Santa Monica, CA, USA 87731
Phone: (626)435-0091 Fax: (626)435-1182
Email: intertec@cambell.net
Date posted: 03/07/98
Ad ID: employment-877939790-6219

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EXERCISE 5.1 - Vocabulary

Please match the words on the left with the meanings on the right.

1. location             a. duty; something you have to do
2. position             b. selling something
3. sales                c. place; where something is
4. responsibility       d. job
5. customers            e. a percentage (%) you earn from selling
                           something
6. salary               f. people who buy your products
7. commission           g. something wanted; something needed
8. requirement          h. money from your boss for your work, monthly
                           or yearly
9. fluent               i. the things you know
10. knowledge           j. communicate with someone
11. experience          k. the things you did in your life
12. contact             l. very good language ability

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EXERCISE 5.2 - Grammar

A word is often not enough to communicate what we want very clearly. For
example, if I say: "A dog bit me." You do not know about the dog. Was it
big, small, black, white, with sharp teeth, long ears, etc.?

So, we often use other words to help describe what we want to say. "A
little, white dog bit me." is very different from: "A nasty, big police
dog bit me."

These describing words are Adjectives, or other words acting as
Adjectives:

A       little          white           dog.
The     big             black           car.
An      intelligent     English         student.
        Interesting     action          movies.

Please put the words in the right order.

E.g.:   Love her I and marry want I to her.
        (I love her and I want to marry her.)

1. hole The quick jumped rabbit into the deep.
2. have two experience years computer I communications.
3. Where the small coffee is machine electric?
4. I business learned marketing at international a college.
5. beach waves the The clear sandy touched.

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EXERCISE 5.3 - Reading Comprehension

Please read the text and choose the correct answers.

1.  What is the purpose of this text?
        (to advertise, to discuss, to complain)
2.  Who wrote this text? (a web designer, a manager, a sales person)
3.  What does the job mainly involve?
        (discussing computer technology, informing customers of new
         developments, convincing customers to purchase)
4.  How can you apply?
        (by e-mail, by quoting the employment ID number, by visiting
         their website)

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