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Talking about past jobs for a summer hotel role

Real life · At a job interview

Talking about past jobs for a summer hotel role

Your goal: Describe your last job and your future plans.

  • A2
  • 8 turns · about 6 min

You talk to: Hotel manager

Phrases you will need

  • I worked in a clothes shop for two years.
  • The shop closed last spring.
  • I'm going to start university in October.
  • I'll email it to you tonight.

A spoken scene: sound plays only when you press a speaker.

  1. Before you start, read the scene's goal and the useful phrases.
  2. Read the other person's speech bubble.
  3. Choose the most natural reply, or complete the missing word in it.
  4. After a wrong reply you see why at once; at the end you can read the whole conversation again.
How to play? Scoring and details
In this set
The hotel manager asks about your work experience. Choose the right reply or the missing word.
This game reads words aloud
This scene can be read aloud: Emma (British accent) reads the other person, Heart (American accent) reads the natural reply. Sound plays only when you press a speaker button, at a pace that suits your level.

The other person's line comes as sound only at first. Press the speaker, listen and reply; show the words if you need them.

Scoring
Your answers are checked; at the end you see your score, your mistakes and the right answers.
With a keyboard
Keys 1, 2 and 3 choose a reply; Enter continues the conversation.