Life skills B2+ Unit

Understanding the global economy 2b 21 Watch again and answer the questions.
1 How does Jana’s work influence her company’s
Before watching strategy?
1 Match the terms with the definitions in the
business glossary. 2 What example does Andy give of the importance of
exchange rates?
1 CEO 2 exchange rate
3 freelance 4 inflation
3 What does Cey say about paying international crew
5 outcome 6 rate
members?
7 strategy 8 supplier
9 target 10 trend
4 Why is it important for Cey to work with people
a an amount of money that is paid or charged from round the world?
b something you try to achieve
c the value of the money of one country when you
change it into another currency 3a 21 Watch again. List at least four different
d a gradual change or development that produces a things that the speakers say people need to
particular result succeed in the global workplace.
e Chief Executive Officer: the most senior manager in 1
a company 2
f the final result of a process or activity
3
g work done by a person who is not permanently
employed by a particular company 4
h a company, organisation or country that sells a
3b After listening to the speakers, which two things
product or a service
do you feel are the most important for success in
i an economic process in which prices increase so that the global workplace? Why?
money becomes less valuable
j a plan or method for achieving something, After watching
especially over a long period of time
4a Think about the skills, qualities and qualifications
that the speakers in the video mention.
While watching Assuming that your future job will also probably
2a 21 VIDEO SKILLS Read the video skills box. Copy involve the global workplace, what things do you
the table and then watch the video and complete think you need to work more on? What things
it with brief notes. do you think you’re already doing which will help
you in the future?
I think I’m doing enough to develop my …
I think I should do more to develop my …

4b SKILLS 4 LIFE Find out more about the pros and

Jana Andy Cey cons of globalisation. Follow these steps.
Job title 1 Look at your answers to 4 on page 89 of the
Student’s Book, or read the article on pages 88–89
and do this exercise.
Job
2 Do an online search for the pros and cons of
responsibilities
globalisation. Visit a few of the pages the search
suggests and make a note of any new information
that you read.
3 Look at all the pros and cons you now have noted
down. On balance, do you think globalisation is a
VIDEO SKILLS: Recognising word families good or bad thing? Write a summary of the reasons
To understand new words, it’s important to be able to for your decision.
quickly recognise words from the same family. Check you
know other forms of these verbs: REFLECT ON IT
analyse, develop, direct, equip, finance, grow, know,
manage, market, produce, sell Globalisation is often accepted as a fact of modern
life. But what would happen if we decided to
reject it? In what ways would our lives change?

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