1. Answer the questions
• Why would Nadine be good for the job?
• What would she learn from the job?
• What previous experience does she have?
2.Find the following expressions in the e-mail and match them with the definitions and the examples.
1. pick someone’s brain
2. think on your feet
3. What you don't know won't hurt you.
4. run smoothly.
5. hands-on experience
6. hold back
7. see/catch you later!
a) to ask someone's advice about a subject the person knows a lot about:
b) knowledge or skill that someone gets from doing something rather than just reading about it or seeing it being done.
c) to not do something, often because of fear or because you do not want to make a bad situation worse
d) a way of saying goodbye
e) If you do not know about a problem or a misdeed, you will not be able to make yourself unhappy by worrying about it. (Often used to justify not telling someone about a problem or misdeed.)
f) to make a quick decision or give an answer quickly
g) operating in a flowing and effective manner, without difficulties or obstructions
A. They will participate in workshops and get hands-on experience leading classes.
B. He always said he learned more about newspapers from hands-on experience than he did in the classroom.
C. I'd never heard about the company before, so I had to think on my feet.
D. Can I pick your brain about how you got rid of those weeds?
E. Ellen: What a beautiful diamond necklace! Thank you! But how on earth did you get the money to pay for it? Fred: What you don't know won't hurt you.
F. He held back, terrified of going into the dark room.
G. "Bye." "See you later."
2. Writing.
Last week you saw a job advertisement on the Internet. You realized it was be a great opportunity to do what you had always dreamt of doing. This meant leaving your current stable job, but you really needed a change in your life and decided to take the risk and wrote a letter of application.
Now write an email to your best friend and tell him/her about your decision, explain why you think you are a good candidate, why you really need a change in your life, in what ways this could affect your future and ask him/her what he/she thinks about it.
