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Hello everyone and welcome to English Pod. My name is Marco.

My name is Katherine. And today we're bringing you another elementary level lesson as a part of our interview series.That's right. This is part two of the interview series. In the last part we talked about uh well a brief introduction uh when you arrive to a job interview. But on this occasion, we're going to talk a little bit about uh yourself and your life.That's right. So, this is the most personal part, I think, of an interview. Let's take a listen to today's dialogue, and we'll be back in a moment to talk more about the things that you've heard.

� Dialogue

Now, Miss Child's passed on your resume to me, and I've had a chance to look it over. I must say, I'm quite impressed.Thank you very much. I've tried to keep it short and clear. If there are any questions, please feel free to ask me.Well, yes, I do have a number of questions, but perhaps first you could give me a brief overview. I'd like to get a little bit of an idea of your background.Yes, of course. Well, as you can see from the resume, I'm 27 and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Although our family moved to London when I was quite young at around 16.Ah, I see. So, you were actually educated in Europe.Yes, precisely. Although I was born in the US, I would definitely call London home. But as you see, I've actually spent a lot of my life moving from country to country. My father was in the oil business before he retired. So we also spent a number of years in Saudi Arabia, too.Very interesting. So it seems you had quite an adventurous childhood.Absolutely. We were never still for too long, but now I'm really looking to settle down.I see. Okay. Well, let's move on to discuss your education, shall we? Sure.

� Language Takeaway

All right, we're back. So, uh, obviously this person had a very interesting life and they used some pretty interesting words there. So, why don't we take a look at five key words that we have prepared for you on Language Takeaway?Language Takeaway.

#1. Impressed

All right, so the first word that we have is right when Mr. Parsons uh talked to Miss Childs and he said that he was very impressed with her resume.All right. So, someone says, "I'm impressed." when they think that something that you did or something about you is very interesting or good or better than most people's. That's right. So, you're kind of uh amazed. You're kind of uh you're like, "Wow."Right. And so, this is the an adjective. I am impressed. That's right. So teachers sometimes say this. Um maybe when you do really really really well on a test, they say, "Hey, Marco, I'm really impressed. You got 99%." Parents say this to friends, family. So basically, this is a way to say, "Good job. Wow." Right? And there's also a a verb. So this is the adjective to be impressed. And the verb form would be to impress someone. So that's obviously if you impress your teacher by studying, your teacher will be impressed.

#2. Overview

That's right. And following that, Mr. Parson has some questions about Miss Child's background.That's right. He asked her for a brief overview of her background. So we have two interesting words there. Uh an overview. What is an overview?An overview is like a summary. It's basically a way to ask for someone to give you a lot of information in very few words.That's right. So, you don't really want too much details. You don't want somebody to tell you their life in detail. You just want a brief summary.Right. So, not I was born on August 11th in 1979 and I was and then I went into this and no, this is basic simple, you know, this is where I'm from. This is where I went to school. The end.

#3. Background

Mhm. and well he wanted a brief overview of her background. What exactly is her background?Well, think about the word back. Okay, that means behind or in this case background is your personal history. So, you could ask someone what's your background? It means where are you from or you know what have you been doing up to up to now in your life. That's right. And precisely when he asked her about her background now she's starting to talk about her her life that in general terms as we said it's an overview. So she said that she's 27 and she's from Brooklyn etc. So she starts giving very general information about herself and her life.