R3.01. English course S3 - Applied Physics and Measurement Engineering Department - IUT de Bordeaux

Applying for any kind of job, or communicating in a professional environment, implies working on the following aspects ! Click on each title to reach a page of guidelines and resources.

CV	Cover Letter	Education context	Telephoning	Emailing	Oralizing tools

Job Ads: purpose, structure, vocab

Job Interview Common Questions

Job Interview Session : instructions, peer evaluation and grid

You're about to play your scenario as a team. Make sure you understand the instructions and the expectations for this session. The success of this performance depends on you!

From: https://nationalcareersservice.direct.gov.uk/get-a-job/top-10-interview-questions

Common interview questions ... no obvious answers!

The more specific your answers are, the more personalized and targeted your interview is.

Watch this five part series for preparing an interview. Take notes and practice out loud.

Then study the 10 most common questions on the document given in class. Provide a contextualized, detailed and articulated answer to questions 3-7. Give priority to questions 3 & 4: choose a couple of examples to illustrate your answers.

Most interviews, no matter what the industry, are designed to assess a few key areas:

- interest in the job being offered

- fit for the job, including applicable skills and personality

Key answers: don't give a life story but a concise summary of your career and/or educational background], abilities (skills) and goals.

Tricks to avoid: assess your weaknesses in terms of areas you could improve upon and in a professional context. Avoid giving any personality flaws.

Learn more with Jade's video from Learn English :

10 key verbs/phrases to talk about your job in English with Emma: zoom on vocabulary, meaning, grammar and pronunciation/spelling

Working conditions, work values.... what is the difference anyway?!

Structuring my report, structuring my thoughts

From the abstract, the introduction and conclusion, how to work on the table of contents, the backbone of the report.

Dealing with references in English

Writing techniques of the abstract (in the project and work placement report)

Using adequate and powerful verbs and words

Improving my oral & writing style, improving my efficiency:

Daily reporting: 

Working in a team: the benefits of the groupwork

http://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/groupprojects

http://libguides.usc.edu/writingguide/survivalskills

Emailing & Telephoning

Mark 1, coef 1

• Writing emails: write 4 emails according to context provided (2 formal + 2 informal style) and submit your work as a a hard copy on Wed. Oct 12 - Week 41
  

• Leaving a message over the phone: record an oral message to be left on a recruiter’s answering machine (1' maximum). Save your audio file over Moodle Wednesday, Oct 12 23h55 - Week 41 - Moodle
  

Job interview session: peer and teacher evaluation 

See assessment grid in job interview section

Mark 2, coef 2

Week 45 (4h)

Written Test

Writing skills, Abstract techniques

Mark 3, coef 1

Week 1 - 2023

Resources on the internet about:

Resources from the library: 

Wiki of shared resources! 

Enrich the wiki below with your own sources. You must mention what kind of source it is and the topic, copy and paste the weblink of your source, say what is relevant about it and how much reliable it is. Finally type your name. Don't delete your colleagues' posts...

From your text to its "speech", its pronunciation:

First type a clear, effective and mistake-free text by using Grammarly !https://www.grammarly.com/.

Then listen to the sound of your words with howjsay  and sentences with acapela text to speech or ATT text to speech.

Advanced TH pronunciation and connected speech:

Watch this lesson 

The sounds of English from BBC learning English + Tim's pronunciation workshop here

Check out the pronunciation of -ED endings: it's actually easy to remember!

Go to 

Same question of voiced or voiceless sounds to pronounce the -S endings! 

From Woodward English too

Have a look at this section  https://www.anglaisfacile.com/exercices/exercice-anglais-2/exercice-anglais-95275.php and do the quizzes on 

The Sounds of English in a phonemic chart

The sounds of English, classified into vowels and consonants

Now, look the phonemic chart and check its animated version below.