Nama : Natanael Gea

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Jurusan : Teknik
Informaitka

1.

Have you got the skills you need for the 21st-century workplace? Read about what employers
are looking for and test yourself to see if you are prepared!

Preparation
Fill the gaps with the correct phrase from the box.

analyse information communicate well problem solving

good at making decisions the 21st century age of technology

We are living in 1 the 21st century. Some people call it the 2 age of technology. We need to learn skills
such as 3 problem solving and we need to be able to 4 communicate well with other people around the
world. Employers are looking for people who can 5 analyse information well, people who are able to
recognise whether information is reliable or not. They also like people who are 6 good at making
decisions without asking for help.

1. Check your understanding: true or false

Circle True or False for these sentences.

1. 21st-century skills are not taught in schools in the UK True False

2. Employers like workers to be imaginative. True False

3. Employers want workers to think about possible problems. True False

4. Employers like workers to be original when solving problems. True False

5. Future workers will need to be able to write concisely. True False

6. People communicate with each other less in the 21st century. True False

7. Employers believe it is useful to know a lot of information about celebrities. True False

8. Employers don’t want workers to make decisions without asking them. True False
2. Check your vocabulary: gap fill
Complete the sentences with a word from the box.

Have make value differentiate

develop discuss teach solve

1. UK schools and colleges teach ICT skills.

2. Employers value people with ideas for new approaches.
3. Employers like workers who can solve problems.
4. Workers need to be able to discuss their work with their team.
5. Workers need to develop their writing skills.
6. It is important that workers can differentiate between truth and lies.
7. Employees in the 21st century have more responsibility.
8. Employers like their workers to make decisions.

Discussion
Which of the skills mentioned in the article do you think is the most important? Why?
 2.
Reading: C1
A biography of KilianJornet

Read a biography of mountain runner KilianJornet, who climbed Everest in a day, to practice
and improve your reading skills.
Before reading
Do the preparation task first. Then read the text and do the exercises.

Preparation task
Vocabulary Definitions
1………Kidneys a. to climb to the top of something
2………endurance b. a mountain guide from the Himalaya mountains
3………to scale C. the height of a place above sea level
4………breathless d. a long, hard walk
5………a hike e. a climb up a mountain or other object
6………a Sherpa f. the ability to do something difficult for a long time
7………an ascent g. two organs in the body that process liquid waste
8………altitude h. not breathing easily

1. g 5. a
2. f 6. b
3. c 7. e
4. h 8. d

Reading text: A biography of Kilian Jornet

When you picture mountain climbers scaling Mount Everest, what probably comes to mind are
teams of climbers with Sherpa guides leading them to the summit, equipped with oxygen
masks, supplies and tents. And in most cases you'd be right, as 97 per cent of climbers use
oxygen to ascend to Everest's summit at 8,850 metres above sea level. The thin air at high
altitudes makes most people breathless at 3,500 metres, and the vast majority of climbers use
oxygen past 7,000 metres. A typical climbing group will have 8-15 people in it, with an almost
equal number of guides, and they'll spend weeks to get to the top after reaching Base Camp.

But ultra-distance and mountain runner Kilian Jornet Burgada ascended the mountain in May
2017 alone, without an oxygen mask or fixed ropes for climbing.
Oh, and he did it in 26 hours.
With food poisoning.
And then, five days later, he did it again, this time in only 17 hours.

Born in 1987, Kilian has been training for Everest his whole life. And that really does mean
his whole life, as he grew up 2,000 metres above sea level in the Pyrenees in the ski resort of
Lies de Cerdanya in Catalonia, north-eastern Spain While other children his age were learning
to walk, Kilian was on skis At one and a half years old he did a five-hour hike with his mother,
under his own steam. He left his peers even further behind when he climbed his first mountain
and competed in his first cross-country ski race at age three. By age seven, he had scaled a
4,000er and, at ten, he did a 42-day crossing of the Pyrenees.

He was 13 when he says he started to take it 'seriously and trained with the Ski
Mountaineering Technical Centre (CTEMC) in Catalonia, entering competitions and working
with a coach. At 18, he took over his own ski-mountaineering and trail-running training, with a
schedule that only allows a couple of weeks of rest a year. He does as many as 1,140 hours of
endurance training a year, plus strength training and technical workouts as well as specific
training in the week before a race. For his record-breaking ascent and descent of the
Matterhorn, he prepared by climbing the mountain ten times until he knew every detail of it
even including where the sun would be shining at every part of the day.

Sleeping only seven hours a night, Killian Jornet seems almost superhuman His resting
heartbeat is extremely low at 33 beats per minute, compared wiith the average man's 60 per
minute or an athlete's 40 per minute. He breathes more efficiently than average people too,
taking in more oxygen per breath, and he has a much faster recovery time after exercise as his
body quickly breaks down lactic acid- the acid in muscles that causes pain after exercise.

All this is thanks to his childhood in the mountains and to genetics but it is his mental strength
that sets him apart. He often sets himself challenges to see how long he can endure difficut
conditions in order to truly understand what his body and mind can cope with For example. he
almost gave himself kidney failure after only drinking 3.5 litres of water on a 10Okm run in
temperatures of around 40oC.

It would take a book to list all the races and awards he's won and the mountains he's cimbed
And even here, Kilian's achievements exceed the average person as, somehow, he finds time to
record his career on his blog and has written three books, Run or Die The inviible Border and
Summits of My Life.
 Tasks!
Task 1
Write the correct numbers to complete the sentences.

1. It’s normal to find it hard to breathe at 8.850 meters above sea level. 2. Kilian reached the
summit of Everest in 17 hours on his second attempt.
3. He was 3 years old when he walked a long way without being carried.
4. At the age of 13 years old, he saw mountaineering as more than a hobby.
5. At age 18 years old, he became his own trainer.
6. At 33 bpm, Kilian’s pulse rate is much slower than even very fit people.

Task 2
Circle the best answer.

1. The majority of climbers on Everest … 1. a

a. need oxygen to finish their ascent. 2. d
b. are accompanied. 3. d
c. make slow progress to the top. 4. b
d. (all of the above) 5. d
6. d
2. KilianJornet is unlike most Everest climbers because …
a. he is a professional climber.
b. he ascended faster.
c. he found the climb difficult.
d. (all of the above)

3. In his training now, Kilian …

a. demands a lot of himself.
b. takes a lot of rest periods.
c. uses a coach.
d. (none of the above)

4. Kilian partly owes his incredible fitness to …

a. the way he makes extra time for sleep.
b. his ability to recover from injury.
c. where he grew up.
d. (all of the above)

5. His training includes …

a. psychological preparation.
b. making sure he drinks enough water.
c. trying to reduce his recovery time.
d. (none of the above)
6. Kilian’s books are …
a. a long list of races and awards.
b. discouraging to average people.
c. best for an expert audience.
d. another example of his impressive accomplishments.

Discussion
What physical challenges would you like to train for?