READING ACTIVITY

Read the following article about jobs in the future to solve the activities

1) Find words in the article that mean the following:

________________: general tendencies or courses of events
_________________: A person who works for another in return for financial or other compensation.

_________________: A person who gives work to another person.

_________________: The workers employed in a specific project or activity.

_________________: Relaxation or activities engaged in during such time.
2) Answer the following questions.
a- What will happen to those companies that aren’t flexble enough to change?
b- Why will managers have to restructure their companies?
c- Why are people likely to work when they are older in the future?
d- What is working-life balance? How will this affect working hours?
e- What technological advances will be there in the workplace? Do some of them already
exist?

3) Write a short paragraph in which you include your OWN ideas on how jobs will change

in 50 years from now. You can refer to: new technologies, innovations in the
workplace, new means of transportation to get to work or anything you can come up
with! Don’t forget that when we talk about predictions that are based on our own
ideas, we use WILL or WON’T.