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The Roadmap Report Unit 1: A The virtual personal reality trainer experience

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BEFORE YOU WATCH 1

1C 1C A new What lifestyle next?

Work in pairs. Discuss the questions. 1 What do you think makes a business or a company successful? 2 What do you think makes a good employer? 3 Look at the photos. Have you ever done any of these activities? How do you think they are connected to the world of work?

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Read the text and decide if the sentences below are true (T) or false (F). B

Team building What do treasure hunts, circus classes, cooking lessons and spy school have in common? As well as being loads of fun, they’re also all popular types of team-building activities. Team-building activities are common in lots of companies – whether they have ten employees or ten thousand – and many people now think that they are an essential part of managing a successful company. There are lots of different types of team-building activities, from learning a new dance routine together to spending a whole weekend camping in the wild, but they’re all activities which are designed to improve relationships between staff and encourage employees to work well together. Getting out of the office gives employees a chance to get to know each other away from their desks and spend some time together having fun.

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Although some people think these ‘away days’ are a waste of time, research shows that there really are lots of benefits in them for both employees and the companies. These include higher motivation, better communication between colleagues and bosses, better problem-solving skills, and getting more work done more quickly and efficiently. 1 According to the text, treasure hunts and cooking       classes are popular leisure activities.

4 a You’re going to watch a video about team-building. Work in pairs to discuss the questions.

1 What type of team-building exercises do you think the video will show?

2 Team-building activities are only common in large       companies.

2 Do you think people will enjoy the activities?

3 These activities are designed to encourage colleagues       to work together. 4 Team-building activities usually take place in       the office. 5 Some people think that team-building activities       aren’t useful. 6 Research shows that people work harder after doing       some team-building activities.

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Label photos A–C with the names of the activities from the text.

b Watch the video and check your ideas.

WHILE YOU WATCH 5

Watch the video from the start to 1:24 and tick the activities the reporter mentions. bowling

go-karting

sailing

bungee-jumping

camping

dancing

hiking

horse-riding

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The Roadmap Report Unit 1: A virtual reality experience  

1C  What next?

6 a Work in pairs. Read the sentences and choose the correct alternatives.

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1 Will (the reporter) wants to find out how business life/the workplace is changing. 2 He says that businesses are more successful when people work longer hours/enjoy what they do. 3 Team-building exercises are becoming more popular as a way of bringing employees/managers together. 4 Companies always/sometimes take their staff away from the office for team-building activities. 5 Team-building exercises can be expensive/difficult to organise.

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b Watch the video from 0:05–1:24 again and check your answers. 7 Watch the video from 1:25–3:04. Number the photos in the order you see them.

8 a Work in pairs. Complete the sentences with the words in the box. challenge city controllers technology time

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lift

plank

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to organise different virtual

2 The game Will tries uses a wooden 3 He goes up eighty floors in a . a virtual 4 He can’t complete the

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and when the doors open he sees and falls down through the

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5 Jason says the exercises are designed to make people spend . together and have

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b Watch the video from 1:25–3:04 again and check your answers. 9 a Now watch the video from 3:05–4:39. Work in pairs to answer the questions.

1 What is the Shard?  2 What type of company do the employees at the team-building event                work for?  3 What do the employees have to pick up at the end of the plank? 

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4 Did the women that Will speaks to manage to stay on the plank?  5 Did the employees enjoy the virtual reality experience? 

              

6 What adjective does the employee use to describe the experience?       

              

7 What adjective does Will use to describe his experience? 

               

8 Does Will think that virtual reality could be useful in the workplace?     

               

b Watch the video from 3:05–4:39 again and check your answers. AFTER YOU WATCH 10 Work in pairs. Discuss the questions. 1 Do you think that the Walk the Plank experience in the video looked fun? Why/Why not? 2 Have you ever tried virtual reality? If so, did you enjoy it? If not, would you like to try it? 3 What other things do you think virtual reality could be used for in the future? PHOTOCOPIABLE © Pearson Education Limited 2019

11 Work in pairs. You’ve been asked

to organise a team-building day for your class. Think about what kind of activities you’ll do and how they encourage team-building. A: Let’s organise a dance class for everyone. B: Yes, to get to know each other – that would be fun! Everyone loves music. A: Yes, and dancing is good exercise!