Interviewer: Hello, Miss Brownlow, come and sit down. Now, I’d like you to tell me more about the two years you spent abroad after leaving school.

Woman: Oh, right. Well, I (1) decided to go abroad to see the world. I only intended staying for six months but in the end I stayed two years. First of all I worked for a (2) family. I looked after their three children - all under the age of ten so I was kept very busy! I really liked the family, but after (3) six months I was ready for a change although I didn’t want to come home. Then I applied for a job in a hotel as a (4) receptionist. That way I could still practise my languages. And it was really good because I had my own room in the hotel and I had all my (5) meals there as well. And then the hotel closed down! But the manager offered me a job - in a (6) bakery - it belonged to his brother - and I worked there for almost a year. At the beginning it was really hard because I had to get up so early in the morning - around (7) four o’clock every day. But once I got used to that, it was great, because I’d finished work by two o’clock in the afternoon and the rest of the time was my own. But my (8) parents thought I ought to come home and get a ‘(9) proper job’. I suppose they were right. So that’s when I applied for the job with the Bank International in their foreign (10) department and so I continued to use my languages.

Interviewer: You’ve had quite a lot of experience, haven’t you! Now, if I could ask you ...