Write answers to questions in
boxes 15-27 on your answer sheet.
GT Reading Sample - "Vacancy for food preparation assistant" & "Setting
up a business partnership in the UK"
Read the text below and answer Questions
15-19.
Vacancy for food preparation assistant
Durrant House plc runs restaurants and
cafes as concessions in airports, train stations and other busy environments
around the country. We currently have a vacancy for a food preparation
assistant in our restaurant at Locksley Stadium, serving football fans and
concert-goers before, during and after events. In addition, we cater for
private parties several times a week. If you have relevant experience and a
passion for preparing food to a very high standard, we’ll be delighted to hear
from you. You must be able to multitask and to work in a fast-paced
environment. It goes without saying that working as an effective and supportive
member of a team is essential so you need to be happy in this type of work.
The role includes the usual
responsibilities, such as treating hygiene as your number one priority,
cleaning work areas, and doing whatever is required to provide food of
excellent quality. The person appointed will carry out a range of tasks,
including ensuring all raw food items are fresh, preparing vegetables to be
cooked, making sure frozen food products are used in rotation, and throwing
away any food products that are near or have passed their expiry date. He or
she will be required to familiarise themselves with the storage system, so as
to put food product supplies in the proper place and retrieve them in the right
order. In particular; we are looking for someone with skill at baking, to play
a large role in the production of pies and cakes.
Given the nature of the venue, working
hours vary from week to week, depending on the events being held, and will
often involve starting early in the morning or finishing late at night. You can
expect to work an average of around 18 hours a week, although this cannot be
guaranteed. You will also have the opportunity to work in another of our sites
for one or two days a week, or for longer periods, and will be paid for ten
days of holidays a year, Training will be provided in food safety.
If this sounds like the job for you,
please contact Jo Simmons at simmons.j@durrant-house.com.
Questions 15-19
Complete the notes below.
Choose ONE WORD ONLY from the text for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 15-19 on your answer
sheet.
Vacancy
for food preparation assistant
Location of restaurant: in a 15 ..................
Requirements:
• relevant experience
• ability to multitask must enjoy working in a 16 ..................
Responsibilities Include:
• maintaining high
standards of 17 .................. and
quality
• checking the freshness of raw food
• ensuring no food is used after its expiry date
• leaming the procedure for the 18 ..................
of food
• doing a considerable amount of the baking
Conditions:
• working hours are
not 19 ..................
• payment is made for holidays
Read
the text below and answer Questions 21-27.
How to run a successful project
A project manager’s main task is to bring a particular project to completion, both on time and within budget. There are many factors that can cause a project to veer off its tracks, but steps can be taken to ensure that your project experiences as little disruption as possible.
1. Prepare the framework
If you get everything down in writing at the beginning of the project, you have
an excellent foundation to build upon. Change is inevitable, but you have to
maintain control. This is critical to avoid problems of ‘scope creep’, which is
when the company paying for the project asks for ‘just one more little thing’
repeatedly, until the project becomes unmanageable.
2.
Select the team
Gather your human resources, and make sure that their skills align with their
roles. This is an important first step: if you assign the wrong person to a
task, you are reducing your chances of success.
Make sure each team member is clear on
what is expected from them and when. Encourage them to ask questions to clarify
anything that may be uncertain, and to always come to you whenever something
seems to be out of place or going wrong. Clear communication is critical.
Make sure the whole team and the client
company grasp the project’s limitations in terms of its achievable outcomes.
You can finish a task successfully and on time as long as expectations are
reasonable.
3.
Staying on track
How can you know if your project is going to be successful if you don’t have
any way of measuring success? You will need interim milestones, especially for
a long-term project, so that you can determine if you are staying on track or
straying from the project’s goals.
4.
Manage project risks
Hopefully you have defined the more likely risks up front during the project
preparation, so you should now put contingency plans in place for certain
occurrences. If you can see when a risk is imminent, you can take preventive
action to avoid it, but be ready to halt a project if the risk becomes
unacceptable.
5.
Evaluate the project
Once a project has been completed, it’s important to write a report, even if it
is only for internal purposes. You can pinpoint what went right or wrong,
determine what could have been done differently, and establish the best
practices for use in future undertakings.
Questions
21-27
Complete
the flow-chart below.
Choose NO MORE THAN
TWO WORDS from
the text for each answer.
Write your answers in boxes 21-27 on your
answer sheet.
How to run a successful project
Bear in mind that your aim should be to keep to both the agreed
deadline and the 21 ....................... for the
project
↓
Fix the details at the start to prevent what is called 22 .......................
- the client asking for more and more.
↓
Choose the team members wisely so that their 23 .......................
match the duties you want them to take on.
↓
Promote good 24 .......................
at all times so everyone knows what you require of them.
↓
Make sure 25 .......................
are set so you can check whether the project is running to schedule.
↓
Prepare 26 .......................
which can be activated if things go wrong on the project.
↓
Once the project is over, produce a 27 .......................
outlining its strengths and weaknesses for future reference.
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