英语

1. Listen to four of interviewees introduce themselves. Can you write down their names and identify what jobs they each do?

2. Living and working abroad would be really easy if everyone spoke the same way and behaved in the same way. But, as soon as you leave your own culture it quickly becomes clear that things are not the

same. There are small and large differences between cultures. And how well you are able to deal with these differences will affect how good your experience will be. THINK:

a) What sort of things do you think might be different between two cultures?

1. _______________ 2. _______________ 3. _______________ 4. _______________

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b) Why work abroad? As we've seen, there can be many things that make working abroad difficult, things like language differences and time. So why do you think that people do it?

Listen to the audio and work out what Professor Petruska Clarkson's reasons are.

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Work with the vocabulary find appropriate equivalents

1. to be purchased, taken over by another company

Changing Jobs

a. an update b. outdated c. to be laid off d. to streamline e. to update f. to be bought out g. to downsize h. competitive i. to get rid of l. to retrain k. dedicated

2. to lose a job because the company wants to reduce the number of employees 3. worthy of competition, liking competition

4. very loyal; working hard for a person, company or idea.

5. to reduce the size of a company, to reduce the number of employees 6. to throw away, remove, eliminate something or someone 7. too old, antiquated

8. to reeducate someone for a job, train again

9. to improve the performance of something; to simplify a process 10. to make more modern 11. the latest information or news

AFTERNOON

Insert the new vocabulary in the text below

Barbara: Did you hear Lars lost his job?

Tim: Really, he has been working for that advertising agency for almost five years. He was such a ______________ employee - I can't believe he was fired!

Barbara: He wasn't fired, he ____________. Terra Advertising __________by some internet marketing firm from the East Coast.

Tim: That's terrible! Why didn't the new company keep him. I'm sure they could use someone with his skills.

Barbara: Lars said the new company needs to ________________ Tim: Why?

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Tim: Why did they __________ Lars? He's great at what he does.

Barbara: They hired a specialist to come in and help ____________ the company. Lars is creative and very respected in the advertising industry, but his skills have become

_______________. He can't use a computer and he doesn't know anything about the internet. He is no help to a net marketing firm.

Tim: He needs to go back to school and ___________. The career center downtown offers free classes to people who need to ___________________ their skills and training. Barbara: Why don't you suggest that to him.