JOB INTERVIEW

A. Objetives

• ·         Use vocabulary and expressions to talk about previous working experience.
• ·         Use “get” with different meaning and in colloquial expressions.
• ·         Use gerunds after prepositions. 

B. Short Reading

Daniel has a job interview with Mr. Nuthall, ask him. Daniel shows in his interview that he has knowledge about the position he is applying in his interview. Also shows how it must be managed an interview, the correct vocabulary, how we must act through it and the possible questions that an interviewer could ask.

In grammar we see how is used the verb “To Get” for different situations and also how could be decode for having the correct meaning to the multiple uses that the verb “Get” could have in English and the use of gerunds before prepositions following the rule with no exceptions.

C. Definition and Short Description

The verb “To Get”, could have many uses in English language; it’s confusing for us to have a verb that could have many meanings that could describe its action, some of those meanings are:

·         Take Something or To come into position of something (The most common meaning)

·         Become or changing in other state.

·         Arrive or achieve a destination.

·         Take Back or Hand something to someone

·         To cross through a physical or mental experience

·         Contact a sickness or illness

We must be careful because the use of verb “To Get”, could be also used as an idiomatic expression , that are sentences with an special meaning than must not be taken as a literal meaning, because it could present confusion. Some examples could be:

·         Get to use – Is to habituate to a place or something new.

·         To get along with – When you have a good relationship with someone.

·         To get in touch with – Means to have a good communication with.

This is one of few rules in English language with no exceptions: “After a preposition if we use a verb, is impossible to use an infinitive or any other verb form, so it always be a gerund”

For example:

How + About (Preposition) + Going (Gerund: verb ended in -ing) to movies to night?

This means that after a preposition the verb conjugation goes with “–ing” ending.

Other Examples:

• ·         I should eat + before (Preposition) + going (Gerund) to school.
• ·         She is good + at (Preposition) + acting and singing. (Both verbs in Gerund)

Exercises

1.    My sister went shopping yesterday and got beautiful skirt at Marshall´s.

 2.    Artists usually get nervous before their show begins.

3.    My brother is interested (in/design) in designing computer software

4.    They finished the report (before/go) before going home.

5.    The president of the company voted (against/allow)  against allowing employees to take more days off.

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