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Level A1 Reading focus

What you'll learn

Present tense and querer: she writes her name, studies and a short job because she wants the hotel to call.

At home in Granada, Marta writes a simple CV for a summer reception job. She puts her two family surnames, chooses a formal photo, names her tourism studies and a summer job in Málaga, then leaves the page by the door.

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Phrases, words, grammar, and quick practice from this text.

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busco trabajo

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I am looking for work

Buscar means to look for. Spanish adds no preposition before the object: busco trabajo, never busco por trabajo.

The sentence that opens any conversation about a job.

la empresa no puede contactar conmigo

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the company cannot contact me

Con plus a pronoun fuses into one word: con + mí gives conmigo, con + ti gives contigo. Poder plus an infinitive says what is possible.

Explains why the contact details on a CV have to be correct.

Empiezo por el título más alto

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I start with the highest qualification

Empezar por algo means to start with it. Empiezo is irregular: the e of empezar becomes ie. On a Spanish CV the education section runs from the highest degree downwards.

A concrete rule you can apply to your own CV today.

da una buena impresión a los empleadores

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makes a good impression on employers

Dar una buena impresión is a fixed expression: Spanish gives an impression where English makes one. Los empleadores are the people or companies that hire.

Useful for talking about how you present yourself.

español nativo, inglés B1, francés A2

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Spanish native speaker, English B1, French A2

This is how languages are written on a Spanish CV: the language first, then the level. The letters A1 to C2 come from the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

You can copy this line straight into your own CV.

Miro las faltas de ortografía

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I look at the spelling mistakes

Una falta de ortografía is a spelling mistake. Mirar is to look at something, so the sentence is the last check before sending.

Useful for talking about checking and correcting a text.

Key words

Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.

CV, résumé

currículum

CV, résumé

Currículum is short for curriculum vitae, Latin for the course of a life. It is masculine: el currículum, and the usual plural is currículums. The short form CV is used everywhere.

The central word of the article and of any job conversation in Spanish.

Education, training

formación

education, training

Formación covers school, university and courses. On a CV the section is called formación académica. The matching verb is formarse, to train.

Names the education section of any Spanish CV.

Work experience

experiencia laboral

work experience

Laboral is the adjective Spanish uses for anything connected with work (it comes from the Latin word labor), so experiencia laboral is work experience specifically, not experience in general.

Names the section where you list the jobs you have had.

Skills

habilidades

skills

Habilidades are the things you can do: languages, computers, driving, teamwork. The h at the start is silent.

The section where you can stand out even with little experience.

Email address

correo electrónico

email address

Correo electrónico is the full term; in speech people usually say correo or email. Correo on its own also means the postal service.

Without it a company cannot answer your application.

The position

el puesto

the position, the job title

El puesto is the position you hold, the job title: recepcionista, camarero, profesor. It is not the same as el trabajo, which is the job or the work itself.

The word you need to name what you actually did in each job.

Grammar in context

Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.

Present tense, the yo form

escribo mi currículum

I write my CV

The whole text is in the present and in the first person: escribo, busco, trabajo, miro, leo. Regular verbs end in -o in the yo form, so escribir gives escribo.

This is the form you use to talk about yourself.

Ser for a lasting quality

Mi foto es reciente y profesional

my photo is recent and professional

Ser describes what something is like: la foto es reciente. Estar would describe a passing state: la foto está torcida, the photo is crooked. In Spain a photo on a CV is normal, unlike in many other countries.

Choosing between ser and estar is one of the first big steps in Spanish.

Words that put the text in order

Después escribo mi dirección

then I write my address

The text is held together by words of place and time: arriba (at the top), después (then), debajo (below), ahora (now), al final (at the end). They tell the reader where each part of the CV goes.

These short words make any description easy to follow.

Irregular yo forms: pongo, conduzco

conduzco

I drive

A few very common verbs are irregular only in the yo form: poner gives pongo, conducir gives conduzco, hacer gives hago, salir gives salgo. Every other person is regular.