10. Facilities

10. Facilities

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List as many places of work as you can in two minutes!

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Where do you prefer working? Why?

1. What do you know about Google's offices?

2.

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How did the company change its workplace?

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What facilities does it provide?

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What are the advantages of this kind of workspace?

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3. 3. Which of the facilities at Google does your workplace have? Which facilities would you like to have? Why?

Match

4. 4. Match the adjectives from the text to their definitions.

• old-fashioned

• high-tech, state of the art

• open-plan

• spacious

• stress-ree

out-of-date

the most modern and up-to-date

few or no walls separating workspaces

lots of room, not cramped

relaxing

• out-of-date

• the most modern and up-to-date

• few or no walls separating workspaces

• lots of room, not cramped

• relaxing

Match

4. 4. Match the adjectives from the text to their definitions.

• comfortable

• futuristic

• fun

• fully-equpied

pleasant (to be in)

in the style of science fiction

not boring

has everything

• pleasant (to be in)

• in the style of science fiction

• not boring

• has everything

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5. Use some of the facilities and adjectives to describe your place of work:

6. Listening Activity

Listen to two people talking about work spaces and facilities. What adjectives do they use to describe them?

6. Listening Activity

Replace this text with your body text.

​Duplicate this text as many times as you would like.

​Subheader text

Listen to two people talk about work spaces and facilities. What adjectives do they use?

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What adjectives does Speaker 1 use?

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What adjectives does Speaker 2 use?

Reorder

7. Write the adverbs of intensity in the correct order, from least to most intense.

• not exactly

• fairly

• pretty

• really

• very

1

2

3

4

5

• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• 5

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Complete using the words below.

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futuristic

fun

fully-equipped

comfortable

state-of-the-art

spacious

old-fashioned

Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

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That bright red colour on the walls ​

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very relaxing. I was thinking of a light green or something instead.

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It's going to be difficult to change the dates. They're ​

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flexible.

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My flight was 12 hours overnight. I'm ​

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tired.

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We've had some ​

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good ideas so far but I think we can do better. Let's keep brainstorming.

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The negotiations went ​

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well. We didn't get everything we wanted, but neither did they. I still think we might get what we want in the end, though.

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This new software is ​

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easy to use. I learnt all the basic functions in less than an hour.

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We're all ​

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happy with your performance this year, so I see no need for you to make any changes.

9. Writing Activity

Using adverbs + adjectives describe the following.

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Your ideal place of work:

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Your favorite building in the world:

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Part of the building you work in which you don't like so much:

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A place where you often relax:

Business Communication

An architect is redesigning your office space. Look at these two styles of office and read about some advantages and disadvantages for each.

Style A

​Advantages

• friendly

• easy to communicate

​Disadvantages

• noisy

• harder for private conversation

Style B

​Advantages

• good for concentration

• private

​Disadvantages

• not as social

• old-fashioned

Which do you prefer?

Working with words

Look at the offices to rent. Describe the properties using different adverbs and adjectives without using any names.

Language at work

Quantifiers

1. What kind of health and safety rules do you have at work? How do they protect employees?

Labelling

Read the information leaflet and label the appropriate heading.

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Welfare

Health

Safety

3.

What items do they discuss?

Listening Activity.

Labelling

Complete the sentences with quantifiers from the list.

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any

some

a few

not many

a little

any

a lot of

many

much

Multiple Choice

Employees is:

• countable

• uncountable

Multiple Choice

People is

• countable

• uncountable

Multiple Choice

Space is

• countable

• uncountable

Multiple Choice

Lockers is

• countable

• uncountable

Multiple Choice

Places is

• countable

• uncountable

Multiple Choice

Chairs is

• countable

• uncountable

Multiple Choice

Staff is

• countable

• uncountable

Multiple Choice

Windows is

• countable

• uncountable

Multiple Choice

Paint is

• countable

• uncountable

6.

Complete the table with quantifiers from Exercise 4:

much; some; a little; a lot of; not many; any; a few; any; many

7.

Choose the correct word to complete the sentences. Pay attention to countable and uncountable nouns.

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How ​

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free time do employees have at lunchtime?

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There's ​

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extra space in my office. Most of the cupboards are empty.

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Do you have ​

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facilities for people with children?

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​

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people were interested in your suggestion for starting a choir but most didn't reply

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Since the café closed, we don't have ​

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good places to go for lunch.

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There's ​

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space over there for chairs and a table.

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There's only ​

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coffee left in the jar. Can we order some more?

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Not ​

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companies have facilities for musical instruments.

Complete the sentences with a suitable quantifier.

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So, how ___ boxes of paper clips do we have in stock?

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Well, we only have ___, so we should probably order some more.

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How about ink cartridges? I don't think there are ___ left.

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Well, there's an extra box of them here, but we'll need ___ more, sooner or later.

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Ok. What about the coffee machine? How ___ coffee is there?

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There's a ___ of that, but here aren't ___ packets of tea.

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Right, so that's paper clips, ink cartridges and tea. Anything else? Well, we don't have ___ at the moment, but a ___ people in the office have asked me if we can have biscuits for tea breaks.

8. Discuss facilities

• Lockers and storage facilities

• Water coolers

• Areas to relax

• Exercise facilities (eg. a gym)

• Places to eat and make drinks

• Parking spaces

• Meeting rooms

• Other?

Listen to the conversation

Then answer the questions

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This room isn't big ​

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.

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We don't have ​

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lockers.

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The room is ​

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dark.

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There are ​

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few chairs.

Multiple Choice

Which is used: before an adjective

• too

• enough

Multiple Choice

Which is used: after an adjective

• too

• enough

Multiple Choice

Which do we use: before much/many/few/little + noun

• too

• enough

Multiple Choice

Which do we use: before a noun to say whether there is/isn't the correct quantity

• too

• enough

Practically speaking

Use too or enough to describe the following situations. Use complete sentences.

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Fifty people work in this building. It was designed for 35.

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These files need about 100 GB. My laptop has 50 GB of spare memory.

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The sun is very bright today. I can't see my computer screen.

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I'm freezing. Why is the air conditioning on?

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The staff are all chatting. We need to find them some more work to do.

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There are three empty shelves in the storeroom. Three boxes of stationery have just arrived.

Business communication

How do you make suggestions in your company? By email or comment forms? Do you use a suggestion box?

Labelling

Complete the suggestion box with the following expressions

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why don't

have you thought about

couldn't we do

we could always

3. Listening

The facilities manager is discussing the suggestions with an architect. Listen, then answer the questions.

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Why can they only choose one of the ideas?

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Which one do they choose? Why?

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Well, it might prove ​

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to have both.

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I think we should consider ​

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a meeting.

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Besides, I have a few ​​

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about that...

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You might be ​

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off without it.

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I'd rather not ​

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it.

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I'd recommend ​

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it here.

Draw

Design an "Anarchy Zone" - somewhere for workers to relax

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Do you think the conclusion in the final paragraph is relevant to 21st century businesses? Why?

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What do you think are the top five factors that motivate people at work?

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What are some of the main ways your company motivates its staff to improve their performance?

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How similar were you findings to that of Frederick Herzberg?

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What do you think the experiment tells you?