50 Unit 03 | Up to the job Expand your vocabulary: The future of work Go back to the article in 30 and make sure you know the meaning of the highlighted expressions. Then sort them into a table like the one below. LANGUAGE 32 a Adjectives Verbs/Verb phrases Nouns/Noun phrases Now use expressions from each column to build five meaningful sentences on the topic of the future of work. Write the sentences into your notebook. Try to use as many expressions as possible. Share your sentences with the class. Example: Innovative entrepreneurs are able to motivate themselves. John Maynard Keynes, a famous economist working in the 1930s, made predictions about what the world of work would look like in 2030. Read the short text about his ideas below and insert the expressions from the box. There are two expressions you won’t need. (You will hear more about Keynes in the FM4 interview that follows.) automated processes job losses lost to automation produce rewarded monetarily so rich standard of living time off work per week working week Keynes thought that by 2030, we’d have eight times the (1) as in the 1930s, and we’d be able to fulfil our wants and needs with a mere 15 hours of (2) . Keynes believed that the ‘wealth effect’ (essentially that with more money we’d pay ourselves to have (3) ) would mean that we would be (4) that we’d simply enjoy ourselves. His hope was that we’d find value in pursuits that aren’t (5) (or maybe just sit around in parks on sunny days). Unfortunately, the reality is different: As a study boldly states, 47% of US jobs could be (6) , along with 69% of jobs in India and 77% in China, with similarly devastating (7) occurring in most countries (an average of 57% worldwide). (8) are fundamentally changing what we think of as ‘work’. There is some comfort, though. In the long run, economies tend to exit these cycles of change and disruption transformed and re-balanced. Standards of living improve and economies adjust. b 33 You are going to listen to an FM4 interview with the economic historian Robert Skidelsky about the future of work. First you will have 45 seconds to study the task below, then you will hear the recording twice. While listening, choose the correct answer (A, B, C or D) for each question (1–5). Put a cross ( ) in the correct box. The first one (0) has been done for you. After the second listening, you will have 45 seconds to check your answers. LISTENING 34 14 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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