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C1: can you find > the summary in its entirety so we can see that it’s a video which is part of a series of interviews on the company’s activities this extract is the first in the series devoted to \nom\ he introduces himself and answers the question can you tell us about yourself here it is
A1: Um, yeah, right < yeah
C1: Good > O.K.
A1: Absolutely
C1: so this is um it’s a document we call an authentic document it’s not something that’s been done for learning English it’s really someone introducing himself in the context of his business in fact
A1: OK < O.K.
C1: it’s an > English speaker
A1: < hum hum hum hum
C1: um who um introduces himself > certainly in front of a camera so
A1: yes yes
C1: but um but there but he does it um < like
A1: there > as if he was in an interview for a
C1: < that’s it
A1: voilà > um ok
C1: you see here that we have acti- here in this Activities tab we see that listening it’s selected in orange
A1: < yeah
C1: that means that there are > activities behind and what you want to do at the moment is not yet work on comprehension it’s not < work on listening comprehension
A1: hmm hmm hmm >
C1: it’s mainly working on expression
A1: < O.K.
C1: and for- > do you agree?
A1: ah yes yes absolutely + [pron=tafe] yeah
C1: and so to work on expression um what would be what is interesting to do is already your objective is to talk about yourself and talk about your job before even going to see the resources perhaps make a point about in French what would you say?
A1: ah yes
C1: before, um, before we do anything, we might do a sort of < brainstorming +[lang=English] what?
A1: yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
C1: in French > qu’est-ce que vous diriez
A1: sur sur < sur mon
C1: sur vous >
A1: s- s- about me or about my job
C1: both
A1: < d’accord
C1: in particular > a little bit for < example
A1: yeah >
C1: you’re going to meet the English speaker
A1: < there you go
C1: you are going to introduce yourself
A1: and I have to introduce myself to the English speaker and say what I do
C1: and then > we’ll say that since your needs are both personal and < professional
A1: yeah >
C1: Well, you’re going to talk a bit about yourself personally, so < you know what you want, um
A1: um yes yes yes absolutely yeah yeah yeah yeah >
C1: there you go situation < family
A1: right > um yeah
C1: here I identi- I well here you see eh uh well < it’s you who ***
A1: yes what I do is as if > to the limit as if it were a bit like a job interview or um
C1: there you go
A1: < um
C1: and then > afterwards to talk about your duties as a v- < your job
A1: hum hum hum >
C1: and that might also allow you to reuse some < vocabulary
A1: ok >
C1: a little of the um to go and find um to go and see a little of the lexicon which um is specific to insurance
A1: OK
C1: so, perhaps we can start by reviewing the situation in French
A1: < hum hum hum
C1: first of all what > would you say and then before even going to see um what these these these good people are saying < about them
A1: hmm hmm > hmm hmm
C1: because these good people p- maybe they don’t work in insurance, eh?
A1: < no ***
C1: but they talk >