Lesson 17
The big day

Merry: This is the day, the big day, the morning of my interview. I'm feeling a bit nervous, but excited about this coming interview. I've already tried to prepare everything that I think I should do, like the thing about the questions that the interviewer will ask me, and also about examples that I can give to him or her, and try to prepare everything about the suits I need to wear or the shoes, and make sure that everything's right, and also about the address that I need to go, just make sure that I won't be late.

Merry: Hello, good morning. My name is Merry; I'm supposed to have an interview with Bill Pitcher.
Secretary: He'll be with you in just a few minutes; if you'd like to go and wait in that room.
Merry: Thank you very much.
Bill: Can you tell me something about your different subjects at school; what were your best subjects?
Merry: I love economics because I think it's very interesting and I just find that sometimes it's very relevant to what's the world's… I mean, the world's economy. The more that I get into the economics tools and everything the more I'm very interested. And actually, for my best subject at University, you mean?

John: That's not unusual. A lot of people hear the question they want to hear, or the one they've researched for, not the one the interviewer actually asked. So it's desperately important to listen and try and work out the context in which the interviewer is asking. Sometimes the interviewers don’t phrase it very well, either.