Listening Comprehension: Tina Seelig's Career Advice

This section covers a presentation by Stanford University lecturer Tina Seelig offering advice on making the right career choices.

Highlight: Seelig emphasizes finding the "sweet spot" where skills, passions, and market demand intersect.

Key points:

• Seelig engages students by asking for a show of hands
• She advises against simply following others' advice
• Passion alone doesn't guarantee career success; skills and market demand are also crucial

Example: Seelig illustrates her point about hard work by sharing her experience of digging ditches.

Vocabulary:

• Intersection: The place where two or more things meet or overlap
• Cop-out: An excuse to avoid doing something difficult
• Dissect: To examine or analyze in detail

The presentation is summarized in a Venn diagram showing the overlap of skills, passions, and market demand.

Quote: "It's one of the most important things in life."

Conditional Sentences Exercises

This section provides practice with conditional sentences through error correction and translation exercises.

Error correction exercise:

• Students identify and correct mistakes in conditional sentences
• Examples include mixing up tenses in if-clauses and main clauses

Example: "If we would have left home later" is corrected to "If we had left home later"

Translation exercise:

• German sentences are translated into English using correct conditional forms
• Focuses on past unreal conditionals (Type 3)

Highlight: These exercises help students master if-clauses type 1, 2, and 3, as well as mixed conditionals.