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The document contains a multiple choice quiz with 6 questions about traditional workplaces versus flexible workplaces. The questions cover topics like work-life balance, overtime, working on weekends/holidays, and how technology has enabled more flexible working arrangements. It also includes a task that asks to sort ideas into groups about traditional versus modern workplaces. Finally, it includes a listening task with several blanks to fill in about contentment versus chasing happiness.

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Task 1&2

The document contains a multiple choice quiz with 6 questions about traditional workplaces versus flexible workplaces. The questions cover topics like work-life balance, overtime, working on weekends/holidays, and how technology has enabled more flexible working arrangements. It also includes a task that asks to sort ideas into groups about traditional versus modern workplaces. Finally, it includes a listening task with several blanks to fill in about contentment versus chasing happiness.

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Task 1:

1. How popular is Chris Svensson’s book?


a. Not very popular
b. Very popular
c. It’s new. People don’t know it yet.

2. What is the work–life balance like in traditional workplaces?


a. Work lives and private lives are clearly divided.
b. People work too much overtime and so they have no private life.
c. People are free to manage the balance themselves.

3. How often do people do overtime?


a. Often
b. Sometimes
c. They don’t.

4. In traditional workplaces, do people work at weekends or when on holiday?


a. Yes, it’s normal.
b. No, never.
c. Usually, they don’t.

5. How has technology helped people work with more flexibility?


a. They can send and receive emails from their phones from home.
b. Their working hours can be easily tracked.
c. Robots can do their work for them.

6. Traditional divisions between work and life are fading. What does this
mean for employees?
a. Everyone has to do overtime, all the time.
b. People have to work while they’re on holiday.
c. They can be flexible to work when and where it suits them

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Task 2:
Write the ideas in the correct group.

Possible to work weekends or Flexible working hours Hobbies and sports only in
while on holiday the evening or at weekends

Fixed working hours Hobbies and sports can be done No working at weekends or on
holiday
at other times, also during the day

Traditional workplace Modern workplace

Task 3: Listen carefully and fill in each blank.

I don’t think we have a great ______ idea of happiness. Many people imagine that
happiness comes from something ______; if you get a new car, a better job, a bigger
house, you’ll be happy. Whenever I hear the phrase ‘the ______ of happiness’, the
image that comes to my mind is of racing dogs chasing a mechanical rabbit that’s
always just out of ______. I think a much better goal of life is to be content.
Contentment is an inner feeling of satisfaction that’s not dependent on external factors.
I argue that the goal is to enhance contentment, comfort, serenity and ______ so that
you can roll with the ups and ______ of life and not get thrown off too much. I think it

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is not realistic to try to be happy all the time; we’re ______ to be sad or blue some of
the time; I think that’s part of the ______ experience.

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