Listening: A Job Interview Comprehension
A job interview comprehension is a B1–B2 listening text in the professional-dialogue genre. The audio covers a typical job-interview exchange — opening pleasantries, tell me about yourself, strengths and weaknesses, behavioural questions (tell me about a time when), salary expectations, candidate questions. Learners practise tracking two-speaker professional dialogue and identifying both content and pragmatic cues (confidence, evasion, enthusiasm).
This worksheet builds B1–B2 listening comprehension through a job-interview audio.
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What’s inside:
- A job-interview audio (~6 minutes) with annotated transcript
- Pre-listening vocabulary box with interview-specific terms
- Comprehension items: catch candidate answers, identify interviewer’s follow-up patterns
- Multiple-choice on candidate strengths, weaknesses, and salary expectations
- Production task: prepare answers to three standard interview questions
- Full Answer Key plus Teacher Notes
Common challenges: Professional-dialogue listening at B1–B2 requires tracking register and content simultaneously. Interview vocabulary: role, responsibilities, qualifications, achievements, strengths, weaknesses, salary expectations, notice period. Reading evasion and confidence in the candidate’s tone.
For: Adult and teenage learners (14+) at CEFR B1–B2, in intermediate and upper-intermediate classes, 1:1 lessons, or self-study. Maps onto Cambridge B2 First (FCE) Listening and BEC Vantage. Part of the Travel, Work & Stories Listening collection — the natural next step is A News Report: Climate Change, which extends professional listening into news-format.
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