51 Work in groups of four. Choose one of the statements below. Then get together in pairs. Pair A finds arguments that support the statement, pair B finds arguments that disprove it. 1 Insatiability and greed are forcing us to work more than necessary. 2 The advertising industry deliberately creates discontent to increase consumption. 3 Humans will find fulfilling projects once work has been reduced to three hours per day. Now have a formal discussion on the topic. Every group member should participate twice. Talk for about 10 minutes. An English youth magazine is launching a series of articles on jobs of the future. It is asking young people to send in articles speculating on such jobs. You have decided to submit an article about a job that might be important in the future. In your article you should: describe what doing this job means outline relevant qualifications for this job suggest how young people can best prepare for this job Give your article a title. Write around 400 words. See Writing coach, Article, p. 174. SPEAKING 35 a 3 Marketing activities are also to blame because they A make people unhappy on purpose. B put a lot of pressure on producers. C make a lot of profit. D only cater to the wealthy. 4 More spare time would result in people A giving more meaning to work. B creating more technological devices. C finding alternative sources of satisfaction. D continuing to work in their free time. 5 According to Skidelsky, these new phenomena will lead to A a better relationship between humans and nature. B the dominance of science over nature. C more natural catastrophes. D more attempts to control nature. 0 Robert Skidelsky was inspired by a prediction which said: A There will be a lot of unemployment. B People will have to work fewer hours in the future. C Technology will completely replace workers. D The working week will be reduced to three days. 1 One of the reasons why this prediction hasn’t come true is that A technology hasn’t made much progress. B incomes have become more equal. C working hours haven’t been reduced at all. D technological advances haven’t benefited everyone. 2 The financial gains made from automation have A helped to reduce unemployment. B gone to the advertising industry. C increased average wages worldwide. D mostly been collected by the rich. Less work, more leisure? b WRITING 36 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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