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Episodio 7

 
A man and a woman sitting either side of a desk

Philip Hart y Marcia Boardman conversan sobre cuál candidato deciden designar.

Preparation

Before you watch

We suggest you do the vocabulary activities below before you watch. Then watch the video and do the task to check your understanding. You can read the transcript at any stage if you want. Finally, have a look at Task 2, which contains some business notes.

Exercise

Task

Comprehension task

Put the ideas into the order they were expressed in the video.

Exercise

Read transcript

Task 2

Business notes

In the seventh video in the series Marcia and Philip discuss and compare the two interviewees before making the decision about who to give the job to. In doing this they use a number of adjectives to describe the characters of Daniel and Sarah, such as convincing and arrogant. Adjectives can often have a positive or negative connotation – here are a few more adjectives that could be used to describe someone in an interview situation:

Positive: Convincing; Self-assured; Confident; Well-prepared; Sincere; Ambitious

Negative: Unconvincing; Arrogant; Overconfident; Unprepared; Insincere; Over-ambitious

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