Conversation
After a quick greeting, use the following questions as a guideline to form an interesting conversation with your tutor. Feel free to diverge from these suggestions if anything interesting comes up.
- If you were an employer, which kind of worker would you prefer to hire: an inexperienced worker at a lower salary or an experienced worker at a higher salary? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.
- What are the benefits of hiring an inexperienced worker at a lower salary?
- What are the benefits of hiring an experienced worker at a higher salary?
- Which method could help you best achieve your organizational goals?
Vocabulary
Skip this section if you have 15 minute plan. Read the word/expression and definition out loud, and your tutor will go over anything you do not understand. Practice creating a sentence or two to make sure you know how to use the word/expression properly.
Vocabulary/ Expressions
| Expression | Definition |
| wages | (n) regular payment for a job She was happy with the wages she received. |
| career | (n) occupation taken for a period of time She knew that this was just the first job in a long career in education. |
| inexperienced | (adj) having little knowledge about something The employee was very inexperienced in the field of marketing. |
| adept | (adj) very skilled or proficient at She knew she was adept at computer processing. |
| hire | (v) employ for wages He couldn’t believe she hired him for the job. |
| refuse | (v) show unwillingness to do something He wanted to refuse the job, but he couldn’t. |
| kiss up to | (expression) get someone’s favor The new hire wanted to kiss up to his boss so that he would like him. |
| make up for | (expression) compensate His perseverance was enough to make up for his young age. |
| pass over | (expression) ignore someone and give something to someone else Despite being more experienced, they passed over him for the manager position. |
| work yourself up | (expression) become very upset about something Be careful that you don’t work yourself up into a larger problem. |
Something Extra
Read the following quote out loud.
“Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.”
― Gordon Hinckley
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