English for Career Development

Week 3

Discussing further about English for career development up to week 3 following the discussion that will be taught through video lectures and reading along with quizzes.

Week 3: Introduction

This unit will teach us about how to write for job application that requires a specific style and voice. Moreover, this unit teach a job seeker to understand how to write clearly and concisely.

Unit 1: Overview of Cover Letters

In this third part of the application process from the video lectures we will taught to professional letter writing. From the video lectures we will know there are three main reasons to write a cover letter, furthermore from this unit will teach us how to write a clear and organized cover letter.

Unit 2: How to Write a Cover Letters

The video lectures from this unit will teach us as the first paragraph how to use your cover letter to introduce yourself to an employer. The rest of the video lectures we are taught about the important things that must be written in our cover letter in the first paragraph. Furthermore, for the second paragraph we will know how to highlight our skills and qualifications in the cover letter. In this paragraph two in the body of the cover letter, you will summarize two or three examples from your education, experience, and interests to show a future employer how you are qualified for the job. The third paragraph, tell how they will follow up with the application and leave the reader with positive impression and last we will learn two tenses in English; simple past and present perfect.

Unit 3: More Advice for Writing Cover Letters

From the video lectures in unit 3, we’re going to talk about the level of formality in your cover letter. We’ll discuss why we need to think about formality as we write it and look at some of the differences between formal and informal tone or style in a cover letter. From the second video lectures, we’re going to learn about using modal verbs to be politer, it is important that job seekers are direct and honest, but also respectful and polite.

New Vocabulary to Learn:

1.      Complimentary Closing: A polite ending

2.      Heading: Writer’s address and contact information; The date; The reader’s name and address

3.      Salutation: An official greeting

      Quiz Score Week 3:

      Unit 1: Overview of Cover Letter

                (Quiz 1)



            (Quiz 2)

      

                    (Quiz 3)


        Unit 3: More Advice for Writing Cover Letter

                   (Quiz 4) 








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