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Passage 6: Listen to part of conversation at a job interview. “Job Interview”
Hi Beth, you are applied for a position in food services? Yes, I need some extra money. That’s fine. Most students do. Well, I need to spend some time working, but I’m hoping you have some part time work. But, I won’t have to commit to for whole school year. Yes, there are some different types of work in food service, but why don’t you want to work for the whole school year? Well, I might, but my grades are important and I don’t want to work too many extra hours, and not be able to keep my grades up. Of course, why don’t I find out some information from you and then I can talk to you about possible openings. Sure, that’s fine. Have you ever worked in food service before, a restaurant or food kiosk? Well, yeah, I guess you would call what I did working in food services. I was selling soft drinks and sandwiches during a festival in my home town last summer. Sure, that is a part of food services and may be even similar to something you could do here at the university.
Do you have time work on weekends? Yes, but I would early like to work one day of the weekend. Well, you know the fall is football time on our campus; the games bring thousands of people to our campus and to the stadium. We have concession stands inside stadium, and this type of work might be something you would be interested in. Yeah, that might just be what I’m looking for. If you would work in concession, you would need to be at the stadium about three hours before a game. Even though the crowds don’t start coming until about an hour before the game, you will need to set up the inventory and get ready to sell. You would probably need to start making popcorns and get the hotdogs into the cooker, and also start cheese melting for nachos and ice down to bottle of water. Then you would need to stay at the concession stand during the game and probably for about an hour after the game to make final sales and to clean up. So what you are saying is that I would be working one day each weekend during the football season, and that I will be working about 7 or 8 hours each day?
Yes, and you would only be working with food. Another person in the booth will handle all payments and money. You do need to cheer for this position because you will be working around people and you will always need to be friendly and helpful. Well, I like people. Although I’d like to keep busy on weekends. I will loose a day of studying though, but then I will still have part of the morning to study or the evening if the game is in the afternoon. Or I could just better use my time on Sunday that I was ready about to right number. But, if I could limit my work time to one afternoon or evening a week, I would like to think about working throughout the year. If I like the job, would I be able to continue in the winter during the basketball games and during springs sporting events? Of course, if you are a good employee and want to continue to work campus events throughout the year, there would be opportunities to do so. If you are interested, then you could start this Saturday for the first game of the season. I think I would like to try it. Great! I will give you this tax and health forms, which need to be filled out. I would tentatively put you on the work list for Saturday. You will need to get all the paperwork back to me by tomorrow though. Thanks for stopping by. Beth, I am glad we could find some work for you. I think you will enjoy it and it will give you a little extra cash.
Now get ready to answer the questions. You may use your notes to help you to answer.
30. What does the student need from the food service manager?
31. What does the manager imply about food services?
32. What is an example the manager gives the student of the kind of work which might be available?
33. How long will the student work during the football season?
Listen again to part of the conversation, then answer the question:
“and you would only be working with food. Another person in the booth will handle all payments and money. You do need to cheer for this position because you will be working around people”
34. What does the manager mean when he says this?
“and you would only be working with food “
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Epilogue
오늘로 TOEFL 듣기 영어 시리즈가 마무리 되었습니다. 어떻습니까? 쉽게 느끼신분도 어렵게 느끼신 분들도 있으리라 짐작 됩니다. 제가 TOEFL을 한참 공부하고 시험치던 시절에는 없었던 부분 (다시 들려주고 문제를 내는 유형)도 있었고 변하지 않은 부분도 있더군요. 결국 상당히 긴 지문을 읽어주고 내는 문제의 유형은 (1) 주제 와 (2) 각론으로 나뉜다고 할수 있겠습니다. 그러나 기본적으로 최소한 60-70% 이상을 듣고 이해를 할수 있다면 최소한 반 이상의 문제는 정답을 찾을수 있다고 믿어 집니다. 각론을 정확히 이해하고 정답을 찾기 위해서는 듣고 이해하는 능력과 빠르고 정확한 요약 훈련이 필요한 것입니다.
어렵게 느껴지는 분들은 절대 좌절할 필요 없습니다. 언어는 천천히, 꾸준히 노력하는 사람이 결국 실력으로 나타나게 되어 있습니다. 그런면에선 인생살이와 비슷하다는 생각을 해 봅니다. 지난 2주 동안 취업면접과 토플시험에 관련된 동영상으로 듣기 영어의 다양한 경험에 집중 했습니다. 이제 어느정도 목표가 정해 젔나요? 이들 동영상에 나오는 영어를 듣고 정확히 이해할수 있는 수준이면 거의 모든 상황에 유연한 대처가 가능하다고 생각합니다.
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