Andrea Montserrat Valle Gracia 01/11/2010 1.-Match paragraphs A-D to the descriptions below.

Summary of main skills and qualities: D Leisure activities: C Present responsibilities and skills: A Experience and achievements: B 2.-Read the profile again and answer these questions. 1. How does the writer contribute to university life? What skills has he developed? -He is a member of the Student Union Executive Committee which takes responsibility for improvements to student facilities, coordinating student events and fund-raising activities. Thus, he is actively involved with the daily running of student life. His role is to oversee publicity and manage the budgets. Those responsibilities have helped him develop leadership, organisational and negotiating skills. 2. What did the writer do at school? -He helped to run the school magazine. 3. What type of challenges did he experience? -Having to produce interesting, topical articles while working under pressure and meeting tight deadlines. 4. Which hobby does he mention? What experience has he gained from it? -He enjoys watching films. He is a member of a local community film club and has helped with the organisation of a short film festival. This has given him experiences of organising off-campus events as well as working with young people in the community. 5. What qualities help the writer to do a good job? -Being confident, competitive and a good team worker, along with the fact that he can motivate others by being enthusiastic. 3.-Complete -Matt didnt want to take responsibility for the project. It was too much work. -Your education and experience plays a large part in the skills you have to offer. -Its not easy to run a newspaper. You often have to meet very tight deadlines. -People are sometimes most creative when they work under pressure. -Holly had to coordinate a lot of people for the fundraising event. -Hes no good at managing budgets. Hes hopeless at maths!

4.-Write a personal profile: I am currently studying English Literature at UNAM. The exigencies check the word I must meet as a first year student are not too demanding at the moment. Right now, I just have to attend all classes and do all of my assignments. Although it sounds simple, studying this degree requires a hundred percent commitment and producing high-quality work, and since University is far from home, I must also have management, planning and organisational skills. Moreover, as I want to become a translator, I must keep working on acquiring a really broad general culture, so that I will be able to interact with different ways of thinking in the near future. I have always been interested in languages and cultural studies. During high school I was in a global culture program. In it language fairs was also included on the program. Due to this, I learnt to do different sorts of jobs, from speaking in public, solving problems in a short amount of time, investigating and identifying different kind of problems and theories, to creating costumes, painting, decorating and even a little bit of carpentry. In my free time I enjoy listening to music, learning how to play the guitar, collecting pictures of famous paintings and visiting historic and cultural places. I found it very useful because I think all kinds of sciences are somehow related, and that is why I can relate any piece of knowledge with my field and the knowledge I already have. I consider that my the studies and projects I have, have helped me make people aware of many problems we are facing now and to propose possible solutions, as well as to give valuable information. I am motivated, disciplined and always eager to learn from experience. All these qualities make me able to focus on what is really essential. Not bad but pay attention to the yellow underlined words and those in red.