Keynote Upper Intermediate Unit 8

When Nigel Marsh turned 40, he decided to try and turn his ______ around.

• time
• adviced
• life
• balance work

Nigel Marsh learned that it was ____ to balance work and life when he didn't have any work.

• time
• important
• easy
• necessary

He says so many people talk so much _______about work-life balance.

• rubbish
• contention
• question
• things

What it's the meaning of the word in bold? Some companies don't do dress-down Friday because people there dress casually

• Some companies don't let them use any clothes
• It's a policy which lets employees wear informal clothes one day a week.
• to speak in an angry way to someone who has done something wrong

A period of time off work for men after their child is born

• childcare facilities
• vacances
• Paternity leave
• father´s vacations

A nursery or similar place which looks after young children during the day.

• School
• Child care facilities
• Kindergarden

A system which lets employees chose which hours they work each day

• Flexitime
• varied
• dictatorship
• free

CORRECT MEANING : We need to elongate it without falling into the trap of the "I'll have a life when I retire"

• tripping over
• hurting ourselves
• making the mistake

CORRECT MEANING : We need to face the truth that governments and corporations aren't going to solve this issue for us.

• accept
• demand
• explain

CORRECT MEANING : A day is too short, "after i retire is too long. There's got to be a middle way.

• already
• alternative
• compromise
• ending