Looking for a summer job

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Looking for a summer job
VANESSA CLARK helps you write letters, e-mails and more in English.
This month: how to find a summer job or other work.
Summer job
To:
Cc:
Subject:
[email protected]
Summer job
CV Lea Schubert.doc
Dear Cruden Hotel
I’m writing to ask if you have any jobs available in your hotel this summer.
I am an 18-year-old student of tourism and English. I come from Germany, and I am
looking for a summer job where I can improve my English and learn new skills in
the tourist industry.
Last summer, I worked in the restaurant of a hotel in my home town, so I have some
experience.
I will be available from 30 July to 5 October. I have attached my CV and references.
Thank you for your help, and I look forward to hearing from you.
Best wishes
Lea Schubert
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Say what you’re looking for, such as a summer job or “an internship” (Praktikum).
Say what you hope to get from the job; for example, the chance to improve your
English, learn new skills (Kenntnisse) or “gain (gewinnen) useful experience”.
Remember to send your CV. If you send it by e-mail, then you can say the CV is attached.
If you send a letter by post, then the CV is “enclosed” (als Anlage beigefügt).
You will need references, or “the names of referees” — people who can write positively
about your work or studies.
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Highlight the key words and
phrases that you would use if you
needed to write an e-mail like this yourself.
Fotos: Alamy; Fuse; iStock; T. Mansch
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Culture corner | GREEN LIGHT
I like…
The Body Shop
Jeden Monat stellt ein Redakteur etwas Besonderes aus der englischsprachigen Welt vor. Diesen Monat präsentiert Spotlight-Redakteurin
STEPHANIE SHELLABEAR den Lieblingskosmetikladen ihrer Teenagerjahre.
What it is
Walk down the high street of any large town
or city in the UK, and you’ll probably see a
branch of The Body Shop. In 1976, British
woman Anita Roddick started a company to
make cosmetics with a difference. She
wanted to use ingredients that hadn’t been
tested on animals, and she wanted to make
people aware of the concepts of ethical consumerism. She did this by buying natural ingredients and products that had been
handmade by people in poor communities
all over the world. The company became
very successful: by 1991, The Body Shop
had 700 branches in 40 countries.
Interesting fact
In 1989, Anita Roddick and her husband
started The Body Shop Foundation to support charities and to work for positive social change around the world. One of the
first charities the foundation helped was
The Big Issue — a magazine sold by homeless people.
Why I like it
Banana, apple, satsuma... It could be a fruit
salad, but in fact, those were some of the
names of the shampoos, shower gels and
lip glosses that I bought with my pocket
money at The Body Shop when I was a
teenager. In those days, you could take back
your empty bottles and have them refilled.
Now, you simply put your bottles in the recycling bin. The shop played an important
role for me, because it was how I learned
about animal testing and Green issues.
aware: make sb. ~ of sth. [E(weE]
bin [bIn]
branch [brA:ntS]
charity [(tSÄrEti]
community [kE(mju:nEti]
ethical consumerism
[)eTIk&l kEn(sju:mE)rIzEm]
foundation [faUn(deIS&n]
Green issues [)gri:n (ISu:z]
high street [(haI stri:t] UK
homeless [(hEUmlEs]
ingredient [In(gri:diEnt]
role [rEUl]
support [sE(pO:t]
jmdm. etw. bewusst machen
Tonne, Abfallbehälter
Filiale
wohltätige Organisation
hier: Staat
ethisches, bewusstes Konsumverhalten
Stiftung
Umweltfragen
Haupteinkaufsstraße
obdachlos
Zutat, Inhaltsstoff
Rolle
unterstützen
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