8 28 Working life Work from home – Writing notes Highlight or underline the main words in these sentences and then turn them into short notes. 1. Work from home has become an important aspect of most people’s working routine. 2. People spend an awful lot of time doing all sorts of things. 3. When people return to the office in larger numbers our city centres will come to life again. 4. Work from home is a welcome opportunity to extend the weekend by one day. 5. Your private life and your professional activities overlap. 6. People work much longer hours than they are supposed to. 7. And there is the trip to work, which usually takes up some time during the rush hour. 3 Tip T Pre-listening activities Before you start a listening task, consider the following points. • What do I know about the topic? Activate your knowledge. • What can I expect to hear? Guess what the audio track could be about. • Which vocabulary will most probably be used? Make a list of key vocabulary which you expect to hear. Test practice: Work from home – A solution for the future You are going to listen to a lecture about the various aspects of working from home. First you will have 45 seconds to study the task below, then you will hear the recording twice. While listening, match the beginnings of the sentences (1–7) with the sentence endings (A–J). There are two sentence endings that you should not use. Write your answers in the boxes provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. 0 Working from home has lately … G A lead to better results. 1 In spite of the popularity of work from home, companies are trying to … B stay at home on Fridays to enjoy their favourite sports event. 2 Being together with people who also have to work is regarded as motivating and can … C demotivating and leads to problems in your relationship. 3 Commuting to work will … D a considerable financial burden. 4 The work from home scheme is often criticised because in many cases people … E affect children and adults in the same way who then have a tough time. 5 One of the possible effects of work from home is that people may … F have a positive effect on other businesses as well. 6 For companies, work from home also means that they may … G become a widely accepted form of work. 7 Commuting to work every day is … H encourage staff to come to their offices for work because there are fewer distractions. I save a lot of money because they can lower the daily costs of running an office. J work more or less the whole time. 4 + 29 ✔ Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy MjU2NDQ5MQ==