You will hear five people talking about their first job. For each speaker choose the opinion about their first job (A-F). One opinion is EXTRA.
Speaker 1
Speaker 2
A. Ifelt I was helping people.
B. I found it surprisingly hard work.
Speaker 3
C. I found the people I met interesting.
Speaker 4.
D. I liked having the opportunity to achieve my ambitions.
Speaker 5
E. 1 felt l was learning useful skills.
F. I detested some parts of the job more than others.
My first job was when I was a student. I worked part-time in a hospital and had to fetch them and wheel them to different hospital departments for treatment. It was hard physical work, you know, lifting people and helping them. But the thing I found most fascinating was chatting to the patients I had to collect. I think I learnt a lot form them in fact.
Speaker 2: I got my first job as an assistant receptionist in a hotel when I was just eighteen. They gave me lots of responsibility quite early on so I learned to do all sorts of things which you need for almost any job, really practical thongs like dealing with people, answering the phone correctly, maintaining the hotel database.
Speaker 3: Well this wasn't my first job, but it was what I'd call my first serious job. I worked behind the counter in a bank. Before starting, I'd expected the work to be quite routing until I was given more responsibility, but in fact it was very challenging right from the beginning.
Speaker 4: It wasn't a very well-paid job. I worked in a call centre for a large computer company and got phone calls from the people with problems. I felt at the time that I was doing something really useful because there were all these people phoning in with urgent problems to do with their computers.
Speaker 5: I did my first job for nearly fifteen years. After university I started working at the same school until just about a year ago. I have to say though I found teaching fun and challenging. On the other hand, I always had a great deal of homework to correct in the evenings and I hated that.
The listening task was adapted from the coursebook by Guy Brook-Hart "Complete First Certificate" le SB