Interviews
On this page you can practice listening to well-known people be interviewed as well as announcers and hosts introduce and explain items on their shows.
The Levels vary on this page...
General Directions:
First, read the questions below BEFORE watching the video.
Second, watch the video ONCE all the way through.
Third, try to answer as many questions as possible without re-watching the video.
Fourth, watch the video a second time and again try to answer the remaining questions.
Lastly, answer any remaining questions with the help of the video, Ie; rewind, pause, etc..
How to Prepare for a Job Interview :
How to Answer Job Interview Questions
How to interview for a job
How to talk about salary in a job interview
Job Interview Tips, Techniques, and Skills
Advanced
Some famous interviews on David Letterman for your entertainment!
Bill Gates : A FAST TALKER!!
Listen and follow the script to a small part of an interview with Bill Gates:
Advanced Listening
Interviewer: Frankly, alot of what I see here uhm, seems to mimic a little bit OS10
Were you going after a specific look there, for the, the Mac look, or...
Bill Gates: No, no, no. Actually uh,..we're ahead (uhm) alot. (uh)
There's whole areas where we've innovated like media center and tablet (uh) that (uh)
noone else is doing. And the primal control ops that's the first time that's been done.
Even in this photo area, ya know we'd love to have you compare how we've done
the...make it easy to make a DVD, edit Hi-definition movies...
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Another interview with Bill Gates. This time only a part of the script is given to you, and you must fill-in the missing words. You can email me for answers.
Advanced Listening
Interviewer: Right then, anyone spot any similarites to ____________ systems that
are already out there? Well, I caught up with Bill, or as he likes me to call him,___.
_______, and asked him, "Don't we already have all this on the Mac?"
Bill: Well actually ___________ is heading in alot of areas, take parental controls
(a very demanded feature), take peer to peer ___________, take the way we do
grouping, (..uh..) a big pride of the Windows environment is we've always had ten times
as many ____________ as any other environment because of the way we reach out
to other software companies, the way we work on such a wide _________ of hardware,
and so with our gaming capability, what we call, "DX10" ya know...we're setting new
_________ for that, what we're doing with RSS, nobodys ever done that before so, (uh)
sure everybody should love what they have. If you've got a ________, (uh) you should
say, "Hey (ya know) our thing doesn't 'Nay,'" but (uh)....
Interviewer: It's an idea for a feature though, isn't it?
Bill: The Windows people like Windows, (uh) and so,..whatever else, if you like pen and
paper,..go for it.
Interviewer: Some of our ___________ viewers as well, will already have some of the
features of Vista, they'll have the Yahoo widgets for example, (the uh) the google (uh)
desktop __________. What would you say to them to encourage them to upgrade?
Should they upgrade?
Bill: Oh, they should compare. They should compare the speed, ________, richness of
what it's like now to have that desktop search built-in with an API, that for example,
"Office Call" so the search inside ______ is done exactly that way and there's a thousand
applications calling that API now. It's true that people can accrede all these add-ons with
_________ user interfaces that they download that are popping up from time to time,
(ya know) about ten-percent of users do those _________, the 90% wait till they get the
new operating ______, but even for that ten percent, what you get when it's integrated
in is far better than having to think of each of these and its own way of __________.
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