Listen to Kevin speaking about technology and answer the following questions.
1. What does Kevin do for a living?
2. Has he got a washing machine?
Listen again for more detail and complete the notes.
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Work Kevin uses a in his job. He prepares handouts and files for his . Kevin taught English for years. Now, software programs are and to . Washing Kevin doesn’t do his washing by . It was more important for him to upgrade . Future In the future there will be more . A Smart House is a house where everything is . These days people can phone home to check their . |
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Si eres informático, en inglés dices:
Read the text and answer the questions below.
1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave. 
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to contact your family of three.
4. You e-mail your friend who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
6. When you go home after a long day at work you still answer the phone in a business manner.
7. When you make phone calls from home, you accidentally insert a "9" to get an outside line.
8. You've been sitting at the same desk for four years and worked for three different companies.
10. Your CV is on a disk in your pocket.
11. You learn about your redundancy on the 11o'clock news.
12. Your biggest loss from a system crash was when you lost all of your best jokes.
13. Your boss doesn't have the ability to do your job.
14. There are more part-time workers in your office than permanent staff.
15. Board members salaries are higher than all the Third World countries annual budgets combined.
16. Interviewees, despite not having the relevant knowledge or experience, terminate the interview when they know the salary.
17. Your regular meals consist of free food left over from meetings.
18. Your boss gets a brand-new state-of-the-art laptop with all the latest features, but you have time to go for lunch while your computer starts up.
19. Being sick is defined as you can't walk or you're in hospital.
20. There's no money in the budget for the five permanent staff your department desperately needs, but they can afford four full-time management consultants advising your boss's boss on strategy.
21. Your relatives and family describe your job as "works with computers".
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redundancy = despido |
Which statements from 1 to 21 are
about:
1. food and the kitchen
2. work
3. health
4. family and friends
5. entertainment
6. home
Put the statements in the correct group. Sometimes a statement could belong to more than one group.
1. food and the kitchen
2. work
3. health
4. family and friends
5. entertainment
6. home
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