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Read two professional profile summaries to practise and improve your reading skills.

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Do the preparation task first. Then read the text and do the exercises.

Maria

I am an architect with 20 years' experience of designing and developing spaces. I am a partner in the award-winning STG Architects Ltd, which is famous for its work on the Galroy Building in London. I enjoy working with people from all over the world and have international experience of working in Italy, Greece, Thailand, Australia and Brazil. I have a Master of Science from Sheffield University and a BA in Architecture from Hull University. I also speak Italian and Thai. When I am not working, I spend my time hiking, skiing and diving.

Emily

I am an experienced sales manager with 12 years' experience of developing customer service teams. I am skilled in negotiation, team motivation and building successful sales teams. After ten years of working in sales and customer service at Halo Bank, I am now the sales office manager of a team of 120 at Southern General Plastics Ltd. I have an MBA from Stanford University and a degree in Business Studies from Cornell University. I am creative and hardworking, and enjoy working with others.

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I am an English teacher at Institute of Irrigation and Agriculture

I am an eight years experienced lecturer in the field of criminal law. I acted as a lecturer in many private universities and higher educational institutes. I have been a lecturer of human rights in an Institute since 2012, and I have worked as a lecturer of criminal procedure in two universities since 2015. Moreover, I am an assistant professor in another university where I have been there for four years, and lectured human rights and children delinquency. All these subjects are interesting for me and I love them. I have written a book which is about human rights. It published in 2017, and I hope that it will republish in the fall season of this year. I am hopefully waiting that my next book will publish next semester, which is about Criminal procedure of Afghanistan. I got my LLM in the field of political science and law from Kabul university and I have MA in Criminal Law. Best wishes, Tayyebi

i don't have a job, I am a student

I'm a fresh graduate of High School. During this pandemic, i can't get any job. So here I am, just lying on the bed, drink a cup of tea every day, and learn any skills that might be useful for my future.

I am an engineer with 10years experience of site operation and inspection. I am now working in construction as an inspector. At the moment I have been working in a Japanese Consultant Company that it is constructed under the JICA Project. I enjoy site operation and site inspection. I have international experience like Singapore and Japan. I enjoy working in an international company with the foreigner because I can get skills and experience. I speak English and Burmese. I play football in my free time.

Hello! I am ansyah, I guitarist professional in my country. I skilled in all around a music like skilled play piano, guitar,drums,and violins. I am proud to my self because I work hard and creative. And I am in here to study English, sorry if my word have mistakes.

I'am a maths teacher with 8 years' experience of teaching maths in my country and this year I work in Quatar. In my country I teached maths in french but here I teach in arabic. I try improve my english because I want teach maths in this language

I studied teaching strategies and pedagogy spaces in university. After I work at primary school about six years, I studied educational administration and supervision spaces master of sceince in HAY University. So I worked at middle school for principal about ten years. I am still going on to learning and studying. I am very happy.

I am a Financial Analyst and Management Professional. I am a qualified and an experienced Financial and Management Professional with 8 years' experience in the profession. I am skilled in communication, team motivation, logical and analytical mindset, interpersonal, problem solving and maximizing results to strengthen organization position.

I'm a student of philosophy. I was taking my final year exam of bachelor but its postponement for convid-19. I gave 5 exam but still I have 4 exam to take. I hope after going to be fine everything I could take my next 4 exam. This is free time for me so that I'm trying to improve my English. By the way, I'm working in a e-commerce company from last year, I have skill on website developing.

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