PROGRESS
This useful resource to improve your Communicative Skills in a real-life situation. Here you will find focus on DBA and Suggested Curriculum Basis
- warm-ups
- pre-reading and listening
- while-reading and listening
- post-reading and listening
- using headlines
- working with words
- moving from text to speech
- role plays
- task-based activities (Crossword Puzzles)
- discussions and debates and a whole lot more.
Critical Thinking
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Discuss with your English classmates: Share Opinions and thoughts
Put the words below in the correct order to make the questions.
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STUDENT A's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)
- What did you think when you read the headline?
- What images are in your mind when you hear the word 'work'?
- How hard do you work?
- How productive are you?
- Is a four-day working week a good idea?
- How satisfied are you with your job?
- How important is job satisfaction?
- Why might productivity rise with a shorter working week?
- Would a four-day working week work for every company?
- What is overtime like in your country?
- -STUDENT B's QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)
- Did you like reading this article? Why/not?
- What do you think of when you hear the word 'week'?
- What do you think about what you read?
- What are your ideal working conditions?
- What do you think of long meetings?
- Are online chats better than face-to-face chats?
- How might a shorter working week be good for the environment?
- What do you think of Microsoft?
- What do you think of working?
- What questions would you like to ask the Microsoft bosses?
- In the white boxes below, type the words you hear. You will hear each word twice.
(Remember to use the correct spelling and capital letters, etc.).
SPELLING
1. the tech giant's _____
2. the ______effects
3. Company _____
4. additional _____
5. satisfaction with the _____
6. Japan's_____ workplace practices
7. create an _____
8. a _____and flexible way
9. ______to the circumstances
10. Other _____of the trial
11. ______workers to choose
12. conduct another _____