高中英语口语情景对话介绍人生第一份工作素材.doc

原版英语口语情景对话第0113集：介绍人生第一份工作每个人都会经历人生第一份工作，Roe的工作很奇特，是推销却不是推销实物，听他详细介绍下吧。Todd: OK, Roe, why dont we talk about your first job.Roe: OKTodd: Yeah, tell us about your first job.Roe: You mean my official full-time first job, talking about!Todd: Yeah, sure. How about that?Roe: OK. That was right after graduating university. I became a salesman.Todd: Oooh, salesman! Nice.Roe: Yep, salesman.Todd: What were you selling?Roe: I was selling nothing.Todd: NothingRoe: Nothing. Well, basically I was selling a membership. So, thats, its not something people can see or visualize, but its like just membership, so.Todd: Was it like a membership to a country club?Roe: Yeah, actually a private resorts and golf clubs.Todd: Nice. Was this in Japan or in the US?Roe: In Japan.Todd: Wow. What was the best thing about your job?Roe: Troubles! Cause I have to knock on peoples houses.Todd: Oh, wow, it was door to doorRoe: Exactly without any appointments and membership costs 5 million yen. Starting, starting costs.Todd: 5 million yen to start and you must have been in very rich neighborhoods.Roe: No, actually we just go to any areas. We just stop off at a station and we start from there.Todd: Really. Were you successful?Roe: Its a long story but to be honest with you, how many memberships do you think I sold in a year?Todd: Wow, I dont know. I will take a guess. In one year, maybe one, two a week, so my guess is, I dont know, a hundred.Roe: One!Todd: One! One!Roe: Can you believe it!Todd: So you must, so you remember the lucky person? Probably still remember that personRoe: And you know what, the person who bought my membership, is who? My father.Todd: Ooh, thats a tough job.Roe: It was rough, really. It was really rough.Todd: Thats a lot of rejection, every day. No, no, noRoe: I know, I mean if you think about it, thats natural though, I mean 5 million yen. and I cant really show the place, cause I cant take the person to the place. all I can do is show the picture and speak and that was right after the bubble economy bursted, so nobody had really, nobody had money, so.Todd: Wow, man so were you depressed? Were you sad?Roe: It was very interesting. It was hard to motivate myself. The people would call the police, and call me like a robber Yeah, yeah, cause I had to like open the gate and run to the door and stick my leg so that they wont shut the door.Todd: SeriouslyRoe: Yeah, thats how you do it. Door to door sells.Todd: Wow, thats, thats a tough job. I dont think I could do a job, whats your job now? What do you do now?Roe: I am, I work for Yokohama city and I am in a place called Yokohama Convention Bureau. Its a city job.Todd: OK, so the Yokohama Convention Bureau. OK, so you deal with foreigners, naturally cause its in English.Roe: And travellers and visitors and what have you.Todd: Do you like your job now?Roe: Interesting! Like I said I meet talk to about over 2,000 people a day, so its kind of tiring though.Todd: Wow, 2,000 people a day.Roe: About 200 people an hour. My office is at the station. Yoko