Lesson Eight 工作面试 (Job interview)
About education
What is your education background? I graduated from
I won the university scholarship for three academic years. I won second prize in the English Speech Contest of our university in 2001. I’ve received the honor of the most outstanding student in 2000. I served in the schools basketball team/as monitor for class. About Experience
Have you got any experience in management? I’m afraid not. I’ve jut graduated from college. Though I have no experience in this field, I’m willing to learn. I worked as an interpreter in a foreign trade company for 3 years. I’m currently with a state-owned enterprise. I’m an administrative assistant with a joint venture company. I’m in charge of the personnel department. Reasons for quitting and application
I quit due to the expiry of my employment contract. My job is not in line with my area of study. I didn’t like the working environment there and there was little opportunity for advancement. I’d like to work in a company that gives me more room for personal growth. I’d like a career that’s more dynamic and challenging. I’d love have an opportunity to further develop my abilities. Yours is a famous company with excellent management. If I have an opportunity to work in such a company, I believe I’ll be able to fully develop my abilities and obtain wider experience, and at the same time, make valuable contributions to the company. Yours is a multi-national corporation mainly engaged in manufacturing electronic products, with its headquarters in the
I was specially trained for this kind of job. For the past four years, I’ve been working as office director for a joint-venture. I’ve had many years of experience in customer service. I have the educational background and relevant experience required for the job. Since my past work experience is closely related to this job. I’m confident I can do this job well. I know a lot about how north
Lesson Nine 办公自动化(Office Automation)
Talking about hardware
I’d like to buy a computer with up-to-date components. I’m afraid this software is not compatible with the main board. Your memory is too small to run this application software. A good model of computer includes a Pentium
Virus is a self-duplicating computer program that interferes with a computer’s hardware of operating system. In order to protect your data, you need to install a powerful anti-virus program on the hard disk. These two documents have been infected with a virus. CIH is a very destructive virus. CIH virus triggers/strikes/breaks out on the 26th of April or any month. Do you often go online? I love surfing the internet. He’s a netizen/nethead/cyber addict. John Dow has a lot of net pals. What kind of web site do you often browse? Our homepage was attacked by hackers. Do you do online shopping? You can download all kinds of cute clip arts from this site. My computer is down again. Press the right button on the mouse. Move the cursor here, and double click the left button on the mouse. Please key/type in your password. Please log in/out. Remember to save before you exit. Please backup your important documents on a mobile hard disc drive. Giving instructions
Key in your password. Insert a floppy disc into Drive A. To turn on the machine, turn the power knob clockwise. Turn it counter-clockwise to turn it off. Press the button once to start the machine. To stop it, press the same button once again. If you press these two keys (ctrl and space bar) at the same time, you can switch the status from English to Chinese, or vice versa.
Lesson Ten 商业会议（At the Meeting）
Starting a meeting
Shall we get started? Now that everyone is here, let’s get down to business. We are going to discuss three problems this morning. Proceeding to the next item
Shall we move on to the next item on the agenda? Let’s turn to the second problem. How about proceeding to the next question? Guiding people in the discussion
First, I’d like Mr. Hunter to briefly introduce the situation. Could you elaborate on that? Miss Brown, can we have your report now? Would you take the minutes of the meeting, Miss Jones? Would you wind up? We’re running out of time. Whose turn is it next? Coming back to the main point
I think we are getting side-tracked. Shall we get back to the main point? I’m afraid we’re getting a bit off the point. I see your point, but could we please stick to the main problem here? Checking agreement
Are we all agreed? Do I have your support on this? Are we all for this plan? Are we all in favor of this decision? Has anyone got any objection to this proposal? Do we all agree on this? Those in favor/against, please put up your hand. Declaring results
Meeting’s adjourned. Let me take a minute to sum up the main points of this discussion. If nobody wants to add anything, we can draw the meeting to a close. That’s about all. Giving an opinion and introducing ideas
I think… In my opinion, … Personally,… As far as I’m concerned,… As I see it,… Wouldn’t it be possible to… Could I make an additional recommendation? I’d like to make one more point. Agree with an opinion
Yes, I quite agree. I entirely agree with you. That’s exactly what I have in mind. I’m all for this plan. I’m in favor of this proposal. I can’t agree more. You’re absolutely right. Half-agreeing with an opinion
Yes, I agree up to a point, but… Yes, in a way, but… Yes, I partially agree, but… I suppose so, but… Well, you’ve got a point there. There’s something in that, I suppose. Disagreeing politely
I’m having a second thought on that. Well, I don’t know. Well, I think it depends. Well, I’m not sure about that. Do you think so? Are you sure about that? Disagreeing strongly
No, I disagree. No, I don’t agree with you at all. No, I wouldn’t accept that for one minute.
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