Grammar Power
Turn the noun BENEFIT into the adjective form used to describe a good decision.
What is beneficial?
The one-page document sent with a CV or resume, also known as a letter of motivation, which explains why you are the best candidate.
What is a cover letter (or letter of motivation)?
This type of skill is described using adjectives reflecting individuality, such as reliable, confident, or careful.
What are personal trait skills?
This linguistic group includes countries where the English language and cultural values predominate.
What is the Anglosphere?
The language used for communication between groups of people who speak different languages.
What is a lingua franca?
Combine these two ideas using the proportional comparative: "A person studies more / A person learns more."
What is The more a person studies, the more a person learns?
The general concept that refers to promoting oneself, requiring determination of expertise and strengths.
What is personal branding?
The type of skills described using nouns representing specific domain expertise acquired through learning, such as being good at English or computers.
What are acquired skills?
Explain why English is an asset even for people who do not plan to move abroad.
What is Because it enables/facilitates communication in global business, technology, and academia (which often happen remotely)?
A valuable or useful quality or thing, especially in a career.
What is an asset?
Fill in the blanks: "He works (adjective), but he (frequency adverb) sees his family."
What are hard and hardly?
What type of information should be included in a CV?
What is education, experience, service(volunteer work), languages, personal information, and skills?
The category of skills that includes tasks like planning, organizing, communicating, and motivating, which are valuable in every walk of life.
What are functional skills?
The saying that begins, "Fortune favors...".
What is "...the bold?"
The word formed by adding the suffix -ous to the noun fame.
What is famous?
Create a compound adjective to describe a decision that makes you think a lot.
What is thought-provoking?
This adjective should be used in a CV to describe someone who keeps promises and does what they say they will.
What is reliable?
Name three personal trait skills (or "soft skills") covered in the unit.
What are reliability, communication, organization, or devotion? (Any three)
The practice of learning English in a country where it is not the dominant language.
What is English as a Foreign Language (EFL)?
Fill in the blanks: "After the successful project, her (position) was significantly raised, making her future a top (most important thing) for the company."
What are status and priority?
What is the difference between saying "I regret telling her the secret" and "I regret to tell you the secret"?
What is that 'regret telling' means you did it and now you are sorry, while 'regret to tell' means you are sorry to give bad news?
Two categories of skills that employers seek, one covering specific technical knowledge and the other covering personal attributes like creativity and communication.
What are hard skills and soft skills?
Distinguish between intrinsic motivation and materialistic goals.
What is that Intrinsic motivation is internal/personal drive, while materialistic goals are driven by external wealth/possessions?
The approximate total number of speakers of English worldwide, combining native and non-native speakers, according to Ethnologue 2020.
What is 1.132 billion (or 1,132,000,000)?
What is the difference between functional skills (e.g., coding) and personal trait skills (e.g., reliability)?
What is that Functional skills are technical/practical abilities, while personal trait skills are character qualities?