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Review English II unit Your watch says a different time from mine.

One of
them _____ be wrong.
The house isn't hard to find. It's the red one at the end.
You _____ miss it! A. must

A. must B. could

B. migth C. may

C. can´t Look at that bird! Maybe it's an eagle or it _____ be a


vulture.
What an amazing trip! You _____ have some incredible
photos. A. must

A. must B. could

B. migth C. can´t

C. can´t LISENING AND READING

That _____ be the vegetarian option. It's got chicken in I.What motivates you in your job or studies?
it.
________________________________________
A. must
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B. may not
II.Match the definitions (a–f) with the vocabulary (1–6)
C. can´t
1. …… an incentive
Have you got your passport? I'm not sure if you'll need
2. …… to motivate
it but they _____ ask you for ID.
3. …… a promotion
A. can´t
4. …… complex
B. might
5. …… automated
C. must
6. …… a social psychologist
Who left their laptop on my desk? It _____ be Mel's –
she's working at home today. a. having many related parts; difficult to understand or
solve.
A. must
b. done by a machine or computer.
B. could
c. something that encourages a person to do something.
C. can´t
d. someone who studies how people behave in social
Samira has flu. We don't know yet but she _____ need
situations.
to take the whole week off.
e. to make someone want to do something.
A. must
f. the act of giving someone a job which is higher status
B. can´t
than their current job.
C. May
III. Pick up 15 new words in this text
Motivation So what does work? Giving your workers freedom;
freedom to work on the things they want to work on,
So, we think we know how to motivate people, right?
freedom to choose when, where and how they work.
Offer them a reward. Do this and you'll get this. Do this
Want to work from home three days a week, get up late
faster, earn more money. Do this better than everyone
and work into the night instead? Fine. Just do the job
else, here's a promotion. We offer incentives when we
well. And evidence shows people who choose the way
want people to do things. We do it at work, at school,
they work get results. Companies that give employees
even at home with our kids. Tidy your room and you can
time during the week to work on things that interest
watch TV.
them and are not part of their regular job achieve
But when social psychologists test whether incentives amazing things. Some of the big tech companies are
work, they get surprising results. Sam Glucksberg, from good examples of this, with ping-pong tables and areas
Princeton University, America, set people a problem to to relax in Prefixes and suffixes can help you understand
solve and told them he was going to time them to see a word. They give you important information about the
how long they took. Then he put them in two groups. word.
He offered one group a reward for finishing fast. Five
IV. Put (T ) true or (F) false
dollars for anyone finishing in the top 25 per cent and
20 dollars for the person who finished the fastest of all. We try to motivate workers in the same way that we try
To the other group he offered no incentive, but he told to motivate our children. __________
them he was going to use their times to calculate an
2. In the Glucksberg experiment, the people who were
average time.
offered a reward finished faster than people who were
The first group, the ones with the reward, solved the not offered one. ______
problem faster, you'd think, right? Well, no, they
3. The people who were offered smaller rewards in
actually took three and a half minutes longer than the
Ariely’s experiment performed better than those
group who just thought they were being timed.
offered bigger rewards. ____
Incentive didn't work. In fact, it made them slower. This
experiment has been repeated, with the same results, 4. In Ariely’s experiment, people were more creative
many times. But in business we still offer bonuses, when they were concentrating on achieving a goal. __
promotions and rewards to staff.
5. In the future, jobs will require workers to be more
That's fine if we want them to do something simple, like creative.
chop wood. We'll pay you more if you chop the wood
faster. An incentive works then. But if we want 6. People always work better when they start the day
someone to do something complex, something creative, later and work into the night. ____
something where they have to think, rewards don't OUTSTANDING PEOPLE IN THE DESIGN
work. They might even have the opposite result, and
Gabrielle Bonheur "Coco" Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was a
make people perform worse. Another study, by Dan French fashion designer and businesswoman. The founder and namesake of
Ariely, showed that the bigger the reward, the worse the Chanel brand, she was credited in the post-World War I era with
the subjects performed on a complex task. The reward popularizing a sporty, casual chic as the feminine standard of style, replacing
the "corseted silhouette" that was dominant beforehand. A prolific fashion
made them focus so hard on the result that they creator, Chanel extended her influence beyond couture clothing, realizing her
couldn't think creatively any more. design aesthetic in jewellery, handbags, and fragrance. Her signature scent,
Chanel No. 5, has become an iconic product. She is the only fashion designer
And this all matters because more and more simple jobs listed on Time magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the 20th
century.[2] Chanel herself designed her famed interlocked-CC monogram,
will become automated. We'll be left with creative, which has been in use since the 1920s
problem-solving jobs that computers will never do. And
WHO MOTIVATES YOU IN YOUR PROFESSION AND WHY?
we need to find a way to motivate people to do those
jobs when we've proved the traditional incentives don't _____________________________________________________________

work.
GRAMMAR

Some prefixes give adjectives the opposite meaning:

un- happy - unhappy

im- possible - impossible

dis- satisfied - dissatisfied

ir- regular - irregular

il- legal - illegal

Other prefixes make a word negative:

anti- social - antisocial

non- profit - non-profit

Suffixes can tell you what type of word it is, e.g. nouns
often end in -ment (enjoyment), -ness (happiness) or
-ion (education). Here are some common suffixes for
nouns.

-ment - management / arrangement

-ism - racism / communism

-ness - happiness / sadness

-ship - friendship / relationship

-er/-or - director / teacher

-tion - communication / education

Common suffixes for verbs:

-ate - create / activate

-ify - verify / solidify

-ise/-ize - authorise / categorise

Common suffixes for adjectives:

-able - reliable / capable

-al - accidental / universal

-ful - helpful / wonderful

-ous/-ious - dangerous / nervous / religious

-ive - creative / sensitive

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