Prime Time 6, Coursebook mit Audio-CD und DVD

Listening: A job interview You are going to listen to a job interview. Study the task below and decide whether the statements (1–5) are true (T) or false (F). Put a ✘ in the correct box. The first one (0) has been done for you. Statements T F 0 Mrs Eames is the owner of the café. ✘ 1 On Sunday the café is open from 7:30 to 9 in the evening. 2 Barbara doesn’t have to work as a cashier. 3 Mrs Eames asks Barbara to do a food handling course. 4 Barbara has been to Britain before. 5 Her parents live within walking distance from the café. 3 11 3.11 Can understand straightforward factual information about common everyday or job related topics, identifying both general messages and specific details. (B1) Language in use: Prepositions Read the text about new views of work. Some words are missing. Choose the correct word (A–K) for each gap (1–8). There are two extra words that you should not use. Write your answers in the boxes provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. Within a decade millions of workers will be at home juggling their careers … 0 caring for children and older relatives, Britain’s leading management institute forecast yesterday. Dreams of a future when technological advances would liberate us … 1 the daily drudgery and allow more time … 2 leisure appear to be fading, with futurologists predicting less talk about “work-life balance” and more about “work-life integration”. A report … 3 the nature of employment in 2018 predicts an exodus from the traditional workplace caused partly by environmental pressure to reduce the carbon footprint of commuting and partly by the demographic pressure … 4 an ageing population, with fewer employees able to avoid looking … 5 older relatives, leading to a blurring of boundaries between family and career. In a list of scenarios drawn up by the Chartered Management Institute, companies were warned to prepare for a range of remote possibilities, including a world … 6 cyber attack, the use of holograms for communication between sta , and controlling employee behaviour by implanting microchips … 7 their brains. More probable scenarios included a polarisation of businesses, with large corporations consolidating global control and becoming more powerful than the governments of some big countries. But there would also be a proliferation of “virtual” companies, oen small community-based enterprises … 8 conventional business premises. A after G on 0 J 6 B at H to 1 7 C for I under 2 8 D from J with 3 E in K without 4 F of 5 4 ✔ 101 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigen um des Verlags öbv