\ G question formation V working out meaning from context ‘ P friendly intonation, showing interest 1 READING & SPEAKING a Lookat the photos of Benedict Cumberbatch and Elisabeth Moss and read their biographical info, Have you seen any of the TV series or films that they have been in? What did you think of L’) (ow read the interviews and match questions vy FAG with theiranswers. appearance? that's your earliost momory? ‘hat makes you unhappy? 1 could edit your past, what do you on ~ think you would change? @ What was our moet embarrassing Who would you most like to say sorry to? € Read the interviews again using the glossary to help you. Answer the questions with BC (Benedict Cumberbatch) or EM (Elisabeth Moss). Who...? 1 [Bf] had ap ombarraesing experience ac a child 2 |[OC) finds it hard to make decisions 3 [ER] avoids anéwering one ofthe questions 4 [Bc] hada dangerous experience when they were travelling abroad DEM had edangezpus experience when they "were young '5 OL] often hesitates when they're speaking 7 [EH] was fond ofa kind of flower when they were achild 8, Ef) has a favourite decade 4 Which of the questions in the interviews do you think is...2 + the most interesting + the most boring + too personal to aska person who you don't know well € Choose six questions from Q&A to ask your partner, m not thrilled about answering questions like tf you were being mugged, and you had a light sabre in one pocket and a whip in the ather, which would you use?” Every week the British newspaper, The Guardian, chooses people who have been in the news recently, and publishes a short interview with them called Q&A. ‘The actor Benedict Cumberbateh was born in London and films, including Sherlock, War Horse, Star Trek, and The Hobbit. in 1976. He has starred in many suecessful TV series 1 What's one of your happiest memories? Sitting with the sun on my face and a beer in my hand, the morning after | had been in a car}acking Rf'South Africa. gees When I was six, Igoe stung by « wasp in a Greek market ‘A woman pulled down my pants and rubbed an onion on my bottom, 3 What don’t you like about your personality? T'm impatient, but also indecisive 4 What is your greatest fear? Forgetting people's names. 5 The size and shape of my head. People say [100k like Sid from Tee Age, 6 What costume would ‘you wear to a faney ‘dress party? Irather enjoyed wearing bandages round my face as the Invisible Man at the last one I went to. People got to know me without recognizing nie, 7 Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Tsay “Erm...” too much 8 What one thing would improve the quality of your life? zs Better time management. ae ah ee I might not have called — ‘Trevor Nunn, the famous direotor, ‘Adrian’ at my first audition for him.The actress Elisabeth MO was born in California in 1982, She has be sful US TV drama cluding The Wes nd Mad Men for which she wor Emmy award. 16 Going out into the backyard of my home in LA and pretending to build a vegetable garden with sticks and rocks. I must have been five. f Tan illest tee a7, gee onge Or “Ny Not getting enough sleep. 5 What is your favourite smell? Jasmine. I grew up in Los Angeles, in the hills, and there was always fasmine growing. 6 To a really good girlfriend with whom I lost touch when I was little. I would love to see her again. 7 Ifyou could go back in time, where would you go? ‘Toa 1930s jazz club in New York Gity. LJove the art deco period - the jewellery, the clothes, the music. Tam big fan of getting a box set and watching the entire show in two or three weeks, 1m watching The Sopranos a the Glossary carjacking the crime forcing the driver ofacarto take you somewhere for give you their ear Emmy 2 USawardsimilartothe {got caught underneath Oscars but for TV strowlng boat. That way beekyard Am back garden ae cheesy informal oo emotional pretty scary ‘romantic loa way thats fembarrassing, 2 2 GRAMMAR «uestion formation a Now read the questions in 1b again and answer the questions below witha pat iret 1 Which questions are examples of...? ®a subject question, where there is no auxiliary verb Qagucation whi culls with s peepostiion ©a question which uses a negative auxiliary verb 2 What happens to the word order in the question What would you change? when you add do you think after what? b> p.132 Grammar Bank 2A. Learn more about question formation, and practise it. 3 PRONUNCIATION friendly intonation, showing interest 2 @4}) Lisen w svime peuple ashing questions 1-5, Who soinds friendlier and more interested each time, aor b? 1 Doyou haves big family? 2 What don't you like. about tne place where you live? 3 What sports or games. are you good at? 4 co you think you have a healthy diet? 5 What makes you feel happy? b_@5)) Listen and repeat the questions with friendly intonation, Focus on sentence stress and linking Reacting to what someone says When you ask someone a question and they | answer, itis normal to show interest by saying, eg. | Really? or on yes? with aflenaly Intonation, oy king @ question © (6) Now listen to the questions in a conversation, Complete the expressions or questions that the man or woman use to react to the answers. ! That's a huge family. ? What's wrong with them? ! We could have a game one day. ! How long have you been a vegan? 5 ?Lean’t think of anything worse! (7) Listen and repeat the responses. Copy the intonation. Askand answer the questions with a partner. Use friendly intonation, and react to your tutor 14]4 READING & VOCABULARY a Look at the photo with the article. What do you think is happening? Do you think the Guessing the meaning of new words and phrases When you are reading and find a ward or phrase you don't know: 1 Try to guess the meaning from the context (ie, the other words around it. Think also about what part of speech the unknown word question is one which someone might really is (eg. a verb, an adjective, etc), whether itis similar to another ask in this situation? Why (not)? English word you know, or whether its similar to a word in your tanguage. b Read the article once and find out. How 2 Ifyou still cart work out what the word or phrase means, either ‘would you answer the question? ignore it and carry on reading or use a dictionary (or glossary if there is one) to help you. HOME / NEWS / UK NEWS / SOCIETY Extreme interviews WHAT sort of dinosaur are you? If you answered Tyrannosaurus rex, then the bad news is that you probably won't get the job you're applying for. (Comment A} Print ‘Welcome to the strange world of extreme interviewing’, the latest trend from America in which interviewers throw bizaffé questions at candidates tevsre bw they react = So. what sort of snosaur would Iemay seem like a game, but extreme interviewing is deadly serious. The idea is to see how quickly job-seekers thinkeon thei feet and, ata time when 25% of recent graduates are unemployed, i offers employers a new way 1» of separating the brilliant candidates from the merely very good. ‘This new approaWh to selecting candidates comes from Silicon Valley in California where else? Google, famous for its demain 2s interview process, asked a recent candidate: “You are stranded on a desert island, You have 60 seconds to choose people of 10 professions to come with you. Who do you choose? Go!” One ofthe early pioneers of extreme interviewing was Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple, who could ‘2 be famously cruel with jobseekers. Faced once with a candidate he considered boring, Jobs suddenly pretended to be a chicken, flapping his arms and making clucking noises round the unfortunate applicant, waiting to see what he would do. In fact, the secret to extreme interviewing is neither in the question nor the answer. Itis in the candidate’ reaction ‘David Moyle, a headhunter with the feeruitmentagentey Eximius Group in London, who admits to using = the dinosaur question when selecting candidates, said: ‘Essentially, that kind of interviewing is used by us to «give someone an opportunity to show they are smart and not easily Mastered” Glossary Silicon Valley the informal name forthe region in norther Calirnis where many ofthe word's largest technology corporations arebased headhunter a person whose job it isco Find people with the eceneaty ell vo work Fora company (often in executive posts) and 0 persuade them to join that company ‘Most candidates actually get something out oft its not about trying to GAHSH them. We are trying to give them an opportunity to show their personality, SGM just showing how they perform in an interview? Ofcourse, getting the jab is just the start, In the modern business world, survival will depend on what sort » of dinosaur you really are, CmEEy Att nT ty Te© Read the article again carefully. With a partner, try to work out what the highlighted words and phrases might mean, and how you think they are pronounced d._ Now match the words and phrases with 1-10. 1 adj needing alotof effort and skill 2 adj nervousand confused, especially because you have been given a Jot todo or are ina hurry 3 adj very strange or unusual 4 MEI to beable to think and react to things very quickly without any reparation 5 noun away of doing or thinking about something 6 phrase instead of 7 verb to destroy somebody's confidence 8 noun aspecialist company which finds and interviews candidates to fill job vacancies in other companies 9 noun people who are looking forajob 10 _ verb moving sth quickly up and down, e.g. wings € 8)) Listen and check. Underline the stressed syllables, Using your own words, answer the questions with a partner. 1 Wharare extreme interviews? 2 What kind of companies first started using them? 3. Why do some people think that they are better than normal interviews? Do you think extreme interviews are a good way of choosing candidates? Which of the questions below (used in real interviews) do you think would work well? Why? Room, Ona scale of desk, or car 1410,how weird) rich Ty which do you ‘areyou? | character are \ clean first? 2 you most tke? = Can you Does life name three fascinate frye werea \ Lady Gaga you? F car,what car \ Sones? would you be? a Have you ever been for a ob interview? What kind of questions did they ask you? Did you get the job? b @9)) Listen to five people talking about a strange question they ‘were asked in job interviews. Complete the questions in the first column. What strange question | How did they answer? |What happened in were they asked? tthe end? T Do youstill 2 What would make you __a__? 3 are you? How much you? 4 ‘would youlike tobe reincarnated as? Are you planning to? © Listen again and make notes in the rest of the chart. d_ Which of the questions did you think were good or bad to ask at 6 SPEAKING a > Communication Extreme interviews A p.104B p.108. Ask your partner ‘extreme interview" questions. b_ Write three extreme interview questions of your own, which you think might tell you something interesting abour another person, € Askyour questions to as many other students as possible and answer theirs. d_ Which questions did you think were the most interesting? Why? Bi itutor 24] 7]