Do the preparation task first. Then read the text and do the exercises.
Preparation
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.
I am an Early Childhood Teacher and from South Korea. I studied and got my work experience from Australia. I have five years of experience working with children. My duties involve overlooking and planning the learning development of children, effectively communicating and collaborating with families and team. Some of the skills I developed involve pedagogical skills, documentation skills and communication skills with team.
Pedagogical skill is skills in approach to work with children such as any kind of decision you make in caring and educating the children. This involve intentional decisions, professional knowledge, and understanding about the children. Documentation skills involve how to meaningfully document children's learning that fits your approach that reflect educators' knowledge, values and belief. Communication skills with team involve communicating effectively on the subjects that is commonly important for staff to carry out their duties and goals to achieve common goals.
I am a teacher at Mascara University in Algeria. I have 10 years of experience as a lecturer. I teach clinical psychology in the Department of Psychology and Education Sciences. I hold a PhD in psychology and speak four languages: Arabic, English, French, and German.
My favorite hobbies include reading, writing books, and studying the Quran. I also spend a lot of time with my family.
All praise and thanks be to Allah.
I have 6 years of experiences as Sales Administration , and I currently work for Elevator company, My responsibilities include make the sales quotation, processing office expense payments, handing some other paperwork
I'm a network administrator JR at a IT department. I work in a company of a educational sector. I am responsible of manage the internet and telephony services of the company and all its branches including: maintaining, updating, backups, migrations, optimization and designing of reliable and efficient LAN and WLAN networks. My key skills are: I'm structured and tidy in the things I do, I'm always still learning. Team-working.
I consider it to be a very friendly and very practical platform to practice.
What work do you do? How would you describe your experience and your skills?
I am a Software Engineer have more then 9 years of experience. I done my MCS from Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan in 2012. Now I am doing my MSCS from SZABIST University, Islamabad which will complete soon. I am currently working with UK based company and developing POS software that will use in UK restaurents and many shops. I built this software from scratch in Laravel, Vue.js, MySQL, React.js, WordPress, Electron, and jQuery. This is very complicated software and will use in many businesness. I am a hardworking person and try to manage my time. I am also preparing for IELTS along with my job at British Council website. I like to help others. In my free time, I like to go out for walk to refresh my mind.
I am a medical doctor with 9 years experience of supporting health workers in different areas of public health. I am hardworking. When I am not working, I spend my time with my children.
Best regards,
Ana Tambo
Maputo, Mozambique.
I'm work as Engineering Product an electronic company in Brazil for almost 10 years. In this time, I got a lot of experience with thecnical documentation, qualyt rules, manufacturing process for PCBA's, machines and so on. I have degree in eletronics technology and Mechanical Technician.
Iam an art teacher in Brazil. I work at a public school in the capitIam skilled in talking for a long time period without hurting my voice (Brasília)
I am a student of the language's faculty, majoring in English linguistics. After I have graduated from university, I am going to apply for a job managing logistics products in the airport, where I will have a chance to communicate with foreigners in an international environment. Currently, I am good at speaking English and lecturing before a public audience.