1.

Based on the text (read in class), answer the questions:

“A series of reports published in the past few days highlight the challenges faced by
Britain’s disabled workers. The studies claim separately that disabled workers are
keen to work but are less likely to be in employment and may be hiding disabilities
from employers, are paid less when they are in work and that many employers do not
feel they are well equipped to deal with the needs of disabled staff. The first study
from Reed in Partnership and Disability Rights UK found that one in ten employers
do not feel able to support a disabled employee. Meanwhile research from the
Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) found that employees who
experience mental ill-health earn up to 42 per cent less than colleagues. A third
report from Citizens Advice found that 40 percent of disabled people would like to
work but can’t find a job. And finally a report from RIDI claims that many people
applying for jobs may be hiding their disability from employers.”
(source: https://workplaceinsight.net/disabled-workers-continue-face-barriers-workplace/ )
a. What does the first study from Reed in Partnership and Disability
Rights UK say?
The first study from Reed in Partnership and Disability Rights UK says that
one in ten employers do not feel able to support a disabled employee.
b. What are the main difficulties of people with disabilities in this context?
Lower wages and fewer job possibilities.

2. Use the present perfect continuous to talk about six things you have been (or
haven’t been) doing lately:
I have been watching a lot of series and movies; I have been resting on weekends; I
have been learning english; I have been working everyday; I have been staying at
home; I have been respecting the quarentine. _________________________

3. Use this listening exercise to complete the sentences below(using

prepositions of movement):
a. It’s _in_ the box
b. It’s _on_ the box
c. It’s _behind_the box.
d. It’s_under_the box.
e. It’s_by_the box.
f. It’s_in front_the box.
g. It’s_over_the box.
h. It’s_in_the box.
i. It’s_on_the box.
j. It’s _behind_the box.
4. Read the poem below and answer, based on your understanding of the poem:
what do you think the author means by “Therefore, (...) for whom the bell tolls, it
tolls for thee.”?
I think the author meant that when the bell tolls, people ask for whom, to find
out who died. If the bells toll for you, it means you are dead.

“No man is an island,

Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.”
source: “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by John Donne (1572 - 1631)
(translations from old english → clod: piece of land or dirt; manor: house; thine:
your; thee: you; also: “bell tolls” → sinos batem)