Trying to make some money before entering university, the author applies for a teaching job. But the interview goes from bad to worse...
My First Job
While I was waiting to enter university, I saw advertised in a local newspaper a teaching post at a school in a suburb of London about ten miles from where I lived. Being very short of money and wanting to do something useful(現在分詞表原因), I applied, fearing(伴隨狀語) as(當) I did so, that without a degree and with no experience in teaching my chances of getting the job were slim(fear的賓語).However, three days later a letter arrived, asking me to go to Croydon for an interview. It proved an awkward journey: a train to Croydon station; a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at least a quarter to feel nervous.
The school was a red brick house with big windows, The front garden was a gravel square; four evergreen shrubs stood at each corner, where they struggled to survive the dust and fumes from a busy main from a busy main road.
NEW WORDS
Apply
vi. write to ask for (a job, membership. etc.), esp. officially 申請
application
n. 申請
interview
n. 面試;接見;會見
advertise
vt. make know to people by printing a notice in a newspaper, etc. or by broadcasting on television, ets. 為...做廣告
advertisement
n.
local
of, special to, a place or district 當地的;地方性的
post
n. job or position 職位
suburb
n. outer area of a town or city, where people live 郊區
slim
a. small, slight; slender 微小的;苗條的
depress
vt. make sad 使沮喪
depression
n.