Write a curriculum vitae in which you give information about your skills, your experience, your education and other things. Emphasize your strengths.

KEYS

Exercise 1.

1. It was a warm spring day, a Tuesday, I think.

2. We finally got to the West End, the center of London.

3. She was born in Hungary but she is Polish now. She speaks Polish and Hungarian.

4. Is she Protestant or Catholic?

5. Halloween is celebrated in both the United States and the United Kingdom.

6. I am waiting for Dr Morris.

7. The Christian Bible has another 27 parts called the New Testament, which tell the story of Jesus Christ.

8. Jamaica is an island in the Caribbean Sea.

9. My favourite book is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë.

10. On the way to work I bought the Times.

11. I especially loathed that Indian thing she carried for a handbag

12. It was one of those April afternoons when you’d believe spring might finally reach Cambridge.

13. Harvard is like Santa’s Christmas bag.

14. Let me tell you that was some picture of yours – that Daddy’s Girl. I saw it in Paris.

Exercise 2.

Love Story was phenomenally successful when first published. It was at the top of The New York Times best seller list for nine months. It became an equally popular movie that captured the hearts of America. Love Story’s setting is Harvard University, the oldest and most prestigious university in the United States, founded in the 1600’s. Harvard, similar to Yale University, is a privately - owned institution, attended by the very brightest young minds.

Exercise 4.

1. For Christ’s sake, Barrett, is this your first date?

2. What a beautiful garden!

3. Doubtless, Mother was sizing up Jennifer, checking out her costume, her posture, her demeanor, her accent.

4. Actually, I missed the turn off myself that afternoon.

5. I … I don’t feel very well.

6. Then the Swiss sold it to the Italians.

7. God, what a picture!

8. We drove the rest of the way in silence, parked and walked up to the front door.

9. At that moment, his mobile phone rang.

10. Oh, I don’t think …

11. He got out of his BMW, walked forward, and leaned over the figure on the ground.

12. He lives at 24 London Road, Leeds, Yorkshire.

Exercise 6.

1. The sun, comfortably warm this morning, had turned almost fiercely hot.

2. Paula, his nine-year-old, was in constant training to take over as his wife.

3. The high school, a two-story Mission-style building with lime-washed stucco walls and a terra-cotta roof, was surrounded by lush green lawns.

4. Jenny had once told me she had been raised by her father, some sort of a baker type, in Cranston, Rhode Island.

5. The door was opened by Florence, a devoted and antique servant of the Barrett family.

6. Guiliano, the manager, greeted him warmly.

7. Mr Turner, head of the firm, spent a few days there waiting for a ship.

8. These stories by W. S. Maugham, the famous short story writer, are very interesting.

9. Edmund Halley, head of Greenwich Observatory, was among them too.

10. Gogol, the great Russian writer, was born in the Ukraine in 1809.

11. Clare, the colored maid, found the door locked at ten the next day.

12. The gentleman, and I use the term loosely, is Lord Gravely, a life peer who inhabits the House of Lords and does little good there.

13. Her art teacher, Mr Woolery, is on the selection committee too.

14. Hope walked past the Church of Christ, a gleaming white clapboard building.

Exercise 7.

1. My friend Michael, a student at a German university, has come to visit me.

2. Renee Henderson, a big, strong and healthy girl, turned to Lacey and cried in horror, ‘You wouldn’t!’

3. Our new clerk, a young man about twenty, entered the office.

4. I’m sure you know Alfred Hard, a professor at London University.

5. Robert Shannon, a little Irish orphan, lived in the family of his uncle.

6. The day of our departure, Monday, was rainy and cold.

7. I want to introduce you to Ann Smith, a great friend of mine.

8. Hamlet, an immortal tragedy by Shakespeare, was written in the first years of the 17^th century.

9. The owner of the house, Mr Morison, was burnt in the face.

10. The work has been done by John Thompson, one of the most talented engineers at our factory.

Exercise 8

1. There are two kinds of people in this world: those who don’t attract mosquitoes

and those who do.

2. Stacked neatly on my bed is my ensemble: a basic dress, reversible skirt, slacks, blouse, jacket, shorts, T-shirt, vest, two scarves, cap with a bill, and jumpsuit for airline travel, plus underwear and a few toiletries.

3. My favorite dessert is a compote of four fruits: apples, pears, peaches, and plums.

4. If you really want to lose weight, you need give up only three things: breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

5. Our club has four standing committees: Budget, Ceremonies, Personnel, and Awards.

6. In the past century, vaccines have been developed for five diseases: diphtheria, measles, polio, typhoid fever, and whooping cough.

7. Two characteristics aided Einstein in his work: his curiosity and his ability to concentrate.

8. At around 3:05, the buzz of anticipation by the spectators became hushed.

9. Wills have been written on unusual surfaces: napkins, wallpaper, hospital charts, and even the side of a corncrib.

10. This is rooted in the genres of art which the French Academy established in the 1600s, namely: landscape, still life, the nude and history.

Exercise 9.

1. grow-ing	11. prop-er
2. shop	12. skil-ful
3. re-wind	13. trust-wor-thy
4. dis-ap-pear	14. doesn’t
5. broad-en	15. 13,600,301
6. haven’t	16. Fri-day
7. mare	17. bet-ter
8. eigh-ty	18. div-er
9. hedge-hog	19. u-ni-ver-si-ty
10. pe-cu-li-ar	20. pro-mo-tion

Exercise 10.

1. If there was one thing that made Daddy mad - really normally mad - it was Lacey’s traffic tickets.

2. We were in Lake Forest - that’s a summer place near Chicago where we have a place - and she was out all day playing golf or tennis with boys.

3. The dualism in his views of her - that of the husband, that of the psychiatrist - was increasingly paralyzing his faculties.

4. They’d buy a little house - nothing fancy, but very warm and cozy - and April would begin to paint as soon as the baby was born.

5. Their son - it would be a boy baby, of course - would grow up strong and smart.

6. Again, Hope got that deep-down feeling that something bad was bound to come out of this feud - something even worse than what had already happened.

7. To Raven, it looked like the bird in Birds of America - red breasted, with patches of gray, white, and red - but she wouldn’t be certain until she matched it with the picture in the book.

8. But now she had something important to do - very important.

9. But perhaps they’ll think I ought to go to a quiet place at first - perhaps Como.

10. You’ll supply me with a boat - a sport Fisherman will do - and someone to pilot it.

11. I put my hand on her forearm – Christ, so thin – and gave it a little squeeze.

Exercise 12.

1. When my children get their own literary agent (and it is only a matter of time), the first chapter in their Dearest book will record this moment in great detail.

2. He is usually an evil-looking man (or woman) with crazy eyes.

3. Later, when we talked of the experience (and God how he talked of it), the concern wasn’t that my husband was going to die alone, it was the agony of paying all that money to stare at ugly wall paper all day.

4. Throughout the years, I have set up my own rules for eating (or not eating) food.

5. An announcement was made later that someone had been smoking in the exercise room (how’s that for irony?) and set off the smoke alarm that triggered the bells to abandon ship.

6. I think I’m going with A group and watch glaciers calve (I have no idea what it is) from the Million Dollar Bridge.

7. After two more calls, we realized everyone was driving his car on the wrong (left) side of the road.

8. Members of street and motorcycle gangs may identify themselves (and each other) with a tattooed device.

9. EFL (English as a Foreign Language) publishers haven’t been slow to respond to this change in demand.

10. During the years I have been traveling, I have paid possibly $ 700 (and that’s a conservative figure) to get back my garment bag that originally cost $ 60.

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