Joe Gebbia Airbnb designs for trust

https://www.ted.com/talks/joe_gebbia_how_airbnb_designs_for_trust

Before we watch:

1) What do you know about Airbnb? Have you ever used it? Did you enjoy it?
2) Why do you think the company is called “Airbnb”?
3) What do you know about the co-founder Joe Gebbia?

Words matter: take a look at the underlined expressions and try to get their meaning

1. I’m having a yard sale

2. This guy pulls up in the red Mazda
3. It turns out he’s alone in town.
4. I don’t want to end up kidnapped in the trunk of a Miata
5. And the voice in my head goes…
6. I’m unemployed; I’m almost broke
7. Here is what I pitch my friend
8. We buckled down to see if we could turn it into a business
9. …rooms you usually keep close when people come over
10. When you’re faced with a problem, you fall back on what you know
11. If you’re up for it, give me a thumbs up
12. You can hand your phones back now
13. There are times when things just don’t work out
14. A marketplace of locals offering to get you thoroughly drunk on a pub crawl in the
neighborhoods you didn’t know existed
Choose 5-6 expressions that you desperately want to learn and write down your own
examples:

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After we enjoyed watching:

▪ give summary of this talk making a real effort to use the words:

➢ yard sales ➢ buckle down

➢ turn out ➢ come over

➢ end up ➢ fall back on

➢ broke ➢ work out

➢ pitch

▪ comment on ideas and moments from this Ted that were

memorable/amusing/surprising/you agree/disagree with etc. (in other words,
express yourself)

Translate the sentence:

1) Привіт!Можна я візьму вихідний в середу? Сестра приїзджає з Канади!Ми рік не

бачились!

2) Чому ти звільнив Сема? Він і місяць не пропрацював. -Так ,у нас з ним не склалися

стосунки з самого початку. Уявляєш, він запізнився на годину вже в перший

робочий день! Як з’ясувалося,він мав ще один підробіток,бо був на мілині і зараз

намагається виплатити борги.Крім того,він декілька разів мене підводив, тож я

лише шкодую ,що не зробив цього раніше

Discuss the question:

1) If you could pitch one idea to your TeamLead/PO, what would that be and what would

you say?
 2) What was the last time you had to buckle down? What was the task? Did you manage on

time?

3) Describe a situation when things didn’t work out.

4) Describe a situation when you had to fall back on plan B.

5) If you decided to go to the yard sale, is there anything you would sell/buy?

6) If your customer wanted to go on a pub crawl, which places would you recommend?

7) “Let’s try out couchsurfing”. Are you up for it?

8) What was the last time your relatives/friends came over? How did you show your

hospitality?

Joyful grammar:

Below you’ll see examples of Present Perfect used in this speech.

Quite often, when you struggle with grammar, it’s counterproductive to learn rules. What
might be more effective is to pay a closer attention to the situations and speech patterns.

Go over the sentences and make sure you identify the situations the grammar is used in
(sometimes it can be used as a fixed expression like in sentence1).

1. We’ve all been there

2. I’m thinking: oh my god, what have I done?

3. We’ve kept in touch ever since

4. I’ve always believed that turning fear into fun is the gift of creativity

5. Now that you’ve experienced the kind of trust challenge…

6. I’d like to share a few discoveries we’ve made along the way

7. Guests have thrown unauthorized parties and trashed homes

8. Hosts have left guests stranded in the rain

9. Out of the 123 million nights we’ve ever hosted, less than a fraction of percent have

been problematic
Make the sentences complete to use the Present Perfect patterns:

1) I’d like to share _______________________________________________ along the way.

2) __________________________________________________________________________

We’ve all been there.

3) __________________________________________________________________________

Oh my god. What have I done?

4) _____________________________________________________________________ ever

since.

5) I have always believed ____________________________________________________