EAREADING ‘a Read the advertisement, What are the requirements for the job? Can you think of any other qualities the publishers would be looking for? Do you think you'd be good at this job? Why / Why not? b Read the application letter. In what ways do you think Helen is Suitable for the job? Is she unsuitable in any ways? Apply to join our team! We are looking for people to write regular articles for the Arts and Music pages of Local View, We would be interested in employing you if you are in touch with arts and music in the area and you have a strong Interest in what is going on locally. Areas of interest could include: ¢ ® \We would be abet offer you a smal fw foreach atl and also ther Cena such a toe tckats fo overt, ‘oapphy send us an ema explain wht aea ofthe ats you are Interested in and why you think you would be able to contribute to our magazine, together with a sample article of no more than 300 words. Dear SirMtadam, | am writing in response to your advertisement which appeared in the November issue of Local View. would like to express my interest in becoming 2 contributor to your magazine. ‘Asa regular reader of Locl View, | can say that | find your articles extremely well-written and informative. | especially admire your policy of Providing a platform for younger and less well-known artists and writers. | am a third-year university student studying History of Are. My end-of- year dissertation was on the topic of Art and Music i the Community, £0 fee! |am very much in toueh with local events and artists. enthusiastically maintain my knowledge of local artists who are producing ‘exciting work and who deserve to be more widely recognised. For example, lst summer | phyed an active rale in organising an exhibition of local photography, to which over 50 amateur photographers contributed. It covered themes such as portrait landscape, stret life and {communicis. am sure the coverage your magazine gave us contributed ‘to the success of the event. “Through working on my dissertation, | have been able to establish contact ‘with several musicians, Including the rock band, Simulator, who recently performed at the Newington Rock Festival. | have algo taken a keen Incerest in the work of Megan Hipwel, whose sculptures based on leaf shapes are just beginning to attract wider attention. | am sure that events and artists such as chese would be of great interest ‘to your readers, and I feel that. with my combination of academic knowledge and ioca involvement in the arts, would be very well qualified ‘o write about them for your magazine. | atach a sample artidle on the work of Megan Hipwall which I hope you enjoy reading ook forward to hearing from you. Yours faithfully, Helen Biggs unit 6° EAWRITING SKILLS Formal letters; Giving a positive impression @ Read the application letter again and match the paragraphs (1-6) with their purposes. (1D to eive examples of relevant experience wstate ner qualticatons C1 to cemonstrate enthusiasm for their company to summarise her strengths to state tne reason fr writing bb Look at the underlined phrases in these comments. Find equivalent phrases in the first three paragraphs of the letter and note them down, 1 Lwant to wie for your magazine. 2 think your artes ar just gest 3 Lreally love the way vou give a chance to younger artists 4. My dissertation was about Art and Music in the Community. 5 think artists round here ate dang exciting work, They should be better known © One of Helen’s aims is to give a positive impression of herself. Underline the phrases she uses to describe herself and her experience. dB Now go to Writing Focus 6D on p.172 EAWRITING Local View are also looking for people to write about these areas: + local restaurants and cafés + places to go and things to do + sports and where to do ther + films, theatre and music ‘+ computer games Choose an area you know about and write @ letter of application. Make sure you: ‘+ organise what you write into logical paragraphs ‘Use fatly formal language so that you will be taken seriously ‘give 2 positive impression so they will want lo give you the jb. b Exchange your letter with another student. Read their letter. Would you be interested in using their reviews? Why / Why not? "mt5D Linking: addition and reinforcement ‘Adding an idea in anew sentence | Adding two ideas in the same sentence Tn addition Furthermore... | In adaition to What is more... Above all. As well as Besides alse Besices Moreover Beyond, @ Cover the table. Complete the sentences with one word in each gap. Check your answers in the table, 1 As well ing online research of social media ‘companies usuelly contact previous employes for @ reference, 2 Many people are careful about the information they post (on social mecia, addition, they often have a private profile under a different name that employers will not recognise, 3 being unethical, using information from social media as @ basis fr discrimination agains job applicant is illegal in many countries. 4 The private ite of employees should remain private. is more, employers have no right to try and Control wnat employees da in their own time, 55 There should be las lo restrict how much information ‘companies can look for all, they should be banned from trawling for negative information. © Companies argue that information that is treely available online can be seen by anyone. they point ‘ut that it works both ways and applicants are free to do research on a company. Replace the words in italics with linkers from the table. Make any other necessary changes. Itis common practice for companies to get useful information about their customers when they sign un for a fee offer. Customers accept the free offer and they have to agroe to Certain lems and conditions that they don't ead carefully ‘Companies are then entitled to bombard these customers, with spam. And they might pass on information to other ‘companies who will send out more spam. It's always important to read what you sign up for and bear in mind that nothing is complately free. And most important, make sure you are aware of consumer rights in your country so you can challenge companies wha use information about you in an unethical way ‘Add an extra idea to two of these sentences, using an addition linker o a reinforcement linker. 1 L always think carefully about whet I write in emails. 2 Alt of companies do not allow their employees to access social media during work hours. 3. Lalvays ask my fiends not to post shotographs of me an their social media pages, dD Now go back to p.65 6D Formal letters; Giving a positive impression Formal leters| Look at these extracts from letters. Cross out one Dear Sin Macam, am writing in response to would ike to express my interest in! dissatisfaction with, etc) Please find attached | lock forward to hearing from you. Yours faithful, Giving a positive impression Tam very mucin touch with enthusiastically maintain my knowledge of. I played an active roe in have been able to Ihave taken a keen interest in feel that, with my .., 1 would be very well qualiied fo "12 word or phrase in each group in italics that is less suitable for a formal letter. 1 | boleve | am certain guess that my knowledge of local sporting events will enable me to do/ write contribute Welkinformed reviews 2 Lam uniting n response to/ answering! replying to your advertisement, which nas! appeared! was published in the March issue of your magazine, 3. Took forward to hearing from you fn due course! in abit! 4m am enthusiastic supporter! a veal fan a keen follower ‘ofthe focal football team. 5 Here are! am attaching | Please find attached some ‘sample photos which I took recently. 6 Ihave considerabie/ loads off extensive experience of restaurant work. 7 am able to be completely flexible | am free any time | can offer a good deal of flexbity with regerd to working hours. 8 spent some time working on a school magazine and acquired! developed’ picked up some relevant priceless valuable ecitorial sil. ‘Add additional formal and positive expressions from, a to the table, Read the advert and Andy's application email Rewrite it so that it is in a more formal style. Dear Sir/Madam,Writing Focus® 7D Linking: highlighting and giving examples @ Add @ linking word or phrase from the table where there is a in 1-7, Often more than one answer is possible. 1 The team is getting on better now. * they have decided to have a team dinner once a month, 2 Wis aleady possible to perceive benefits from the taining for the company, ® the increased productivity ofthe toam. ‘The team’s productivity has gone up by 10%, the increased number of completed tasks inthe past month 4 Everyone's actve listening skis have improved. Masha “ has became a good listener since. 5 Sam and Claudio now work together mor oing the programme, vel, ‘Sam makes a point of consulting Claudio about work-ow issues, ” priorlsing tasks on the schedule. 6 The team naw deals with tasks in hand, “ they focus more ‘on geting things done and less on tear polit. 7. The programme has also resulted in an improvement in the way all team members deal with people outside the team, thelr iendlier manner with suppor stat. ffs Linkers for highlighting and giving examples for instance specifically as demonstrated by as detailed in 2s shown by namely such as especialy in particular b You are the social programme coordinator for a staff student social programme which is experiencing problems. Complete these sentences with your own ideas. 1 There has been litle uptake othe programme of late For instance, 2 Overall participation inthe programme inthe past year has cecreased, as detailed in 3 Aetivites that invalve 4 etvtis such as. are are especialy © Write sentences about the English language progress you and your classmates have made. Use linkers {or highlighting and giving examples of particular achievements, dB Now go back to p.89 STAFF REQUIRED for a bookshop near the ‘university, Flexible working hours, so ideal as a parttime job for students ‘To apply, please send an email with a photo to: “www greensticetbooks.net Hither, ‘Saw your job ad in the student paper and Id realy tke to work for you. 'm doing World Literature at university ‘80 know quite a bt about books written by all kinds (of people I'm realy into novels and travel books ‘and that'll be useful, wor't it? I've never worked in a ‘bookshop before but I've done café work and! | spent a bit of time working in a sports shop, so know all about soling stuff to people. Im also a nice guy and I've got loads of trends —I can chat to anybody. ‘So | think 'm just the kind of guy you're looking for. Hore's my Cv, | could work whenever you Ike, mornings or evenings, all the same to me. Hey, get in touch, Andy DB Now go back to p.77 x