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Kim and Rob are discussing Carl Honore's book "In Praise of Slow" on the radio. Some of the key points discussed are that Europeans work 350 hours less per year than Americans, 20% of British people work over 50 hours per week, and the German language has a word for "death from working too hard." Later, Kim and Rob discuss taking more time to relax from work. Rob feels he should try to slow down, while Kim is able to start work later and work from home occasionally. A sleep scientist discusses on TV that teenagers need more sleep than adults, and that 100 years ago people slept 90 minutes more per night on average than today. When a British school changed start times

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S2 Listening

Kim and Rob are discussing Carl Honore's book "In Praise of Slow" on the radio. Some of the key points discussed are that Europeans work 350 hours less per year than Americans, 20% of British people work over 50 hours per week, and the German language has a word for "death from working too hard." Later, Kim and Rob discuss taking more time to relax from work. Rob feels he should try to slow down, while Kim is able to start work later and work from home occasionally. A sleep scientist discusses on TV that teenagers need more sleep than adults, and that 100 years ago people slept 90 minutes more per night on average than today. When a British school changed start times

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1. a/ Listen to a radio programme.

Two journalists, Kim and Rob, are discussing Carl


Honore's book “In Praise of Slow”. Then choose the correct answer. (CD1-9)

1 People in China / Germany spend 15% less time at work now than in
1980. 2 Some companies in France / Italy give their employees three-day
weekends. 3 Europeans / Americans work 350 hours a year more than
Europeans / Americans. 4 20% of British people work over 50 / 60 hours
a week.
5 30% / 60% of people in the UK said they didn't take all their paid holiday.
6 In German / Japanese there's a word that means 'death from working too hard'.

b/ Listen to the radio programme again. Fill in the gaps with one
or two words. 1 Rob says he must take more time off work .

2 Honore says people should only work 35 hours a week.


3 Honore believes that we ought to spend more time with our families. 4 Some
French employees are allowed to begin their weekend at 3 p.m on Thursday. 5 People
can get their best ideas when they're doing nothing.
6 In some American companies, employees can sleep whenever they want. 7
In the UK people are supposed to have a break every four hours .
8 Kim says that lots of people have to take work hard .
9 Rob says that these days we're able to continue working when we're travelling .

2. Kim and Rob are talking after the radio programme. Listen and choose the best
answer. (CD1-10) Kim So, do you think you 1should / are allowed to relax more?
Rob Absolutely! 2I'm able to / I must try to slow down a bit.
Kim 3 Are you able to / Should you start work when you want?
Rob No, not really. 4I'm supposed to / I can be in the office at eight. What
about you? Kim I5 don't have to / mustn't be at work until ten.
Rob Lucky you. 6 Are you allowed to / Should you work at home?
Kim Yes, we 7 ought to / can work at home two days a week
Rob Oh, we 8 have to / are able to be in the office every day.
Kim Perhaps you 9 ought to / are supposed to look for another job
Rob Yes, maybe. Anyway, I 10 have to / can go. I 11 mustn't / don't have to be late
for my next meeting. Bye!
3. a/ Listen to a TV interview with a sleep scientist, then choose the correct words or
numbers. (CD1-13) 1 Tiredness causes more / less than half of all road accidents in the
USA.
2 10% / 30% of people in the UK have problems getting to sleep or
staying asleep. 3 Nowadays people are sleeping 30 / 90 minutes less than
they did 100 years ago. 4 Teenagers need more / less sleep than adults.
5 Teenagers naturally wake up two / three hours later than adults.
6 We use less / the same amount of energy when were asleep compared to when were resting.
b/ Listen again. Answer these questions.
1 How many British people have serious insomnia?
____________________________________________________________________
____________ . 2 How were sleeping habits different 100 years ago?
____________________________________________________________________
____________ . 3 Who needs the least amount of sleep?
____________________________________________________________________
____________ . 4 What happened when a British school started lessons an hour later?
____________________________________________________________________
____________ . 5 What do our brains do when we're asleep?
________________________________________________________________________________ .
4. Listen and tick the True (T) sentence. Correct the False (F) one. (CD1-19)
a Megan has lived in America for about three years.
b Megan has worked in the USA and in Europe, and she really enjoyed her
time there too. c Three days ago a guy told everyone he was setting off his
own into a mountain. d Megan has just been to Banff to pick him up from the
hospital.
e Clive and his wife started working in the hotel industry 19 years ago.
f They had this place since 2018.
g Clive has gone to see some friends off at Manchester airport.
h Clives have been away a few times, but each time there wasn’t a problem at the hotel.
5. Listen to an interview with Alison Armstrong, a travel expert. Choose the correct
words, phrases or numbers in these sentences. (CD1-25)
1 17% / 25% of people in the UK take a year off before they are 17 / 25.
2 Voluntourism holidays are only for young people / for people of all ages.
3 Alison thinks it's easy / hard to meet local people on a normal holiday.
4 Tourists have to / don't have to pay to go on voluntourism holidays.
5 The presenter thinks / doesn't think these holidays are a good idea.

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