New Trends in Organizing Work

1.How is the perception of work(done for living) changing?

1Give some from the glossary of business buzz words and interpret them.(greed is good/lunch is for wimps earn while you burn). 2.Which word does the author use to bring them into one group?-The corporate lingo 3.Where do businessmen find refuge from work’s strains and stresses?-spinning classes and weights rooms; And how are these increasingly made use of health-conscious businessmen? 4.What new trend originated in the USA and is becoming increasingly fashionable in the UK?- networking while working out; What’s the word for networking in a gym?-sweatworking

5. What traditional way of business networking outside offices and boardrooms has been swapped for the gym? boozy lunch (intoxicated; addicted to drink the boozy and drugged-out wreckage of his later years)

6.How do clubs change their policy to cater to this new demand of businessmen? 7. What may the new ’learn and burn’ classes become an equivalent for? monthly seminars

8.What are the advantages? time-saving/have headers educated in health, well-being, nutrition/ going to unwind, recharge their batteries

9.What’s the difference between hippies and yuppies? (as to their relationship with the Establishment).

10.Pros and cons of freelancing.

11.When are employers accused of nepotism?

12.Which word describes the system by which men who are former pupils of the same school, the same educational system (esp of the English public schools), or the same wealthy families favour each other in later life and help each other to get jobs etc,usually in an unofficial way?

13.Explain how the rule of “affirmative action” works

6. Talk on the Art of Budgeting

1)Why do some people say that the word ‘budget’ has a negative connotation?

2)What is the connection between the words ‘budget’ and ‘mercenary’?

3)How big is your monthly income (the money you earn, your grant, your pocket money all told)?

4)In your case,do you control your money or does your money control you?

5)If you want to save for a rainy day what is the best way?

6)Do you ever exceed/live within or below your budget?

7)Do you think you are overspending? Credit cards: a curse or a blessing? To be in the red/black?

8)How would you think one should divide those hard-earned rubles?

9)What would make up the list of non-negotiable expenses of a family?

10)What is the meaning of ‘disposable income’?

11)If you want to improve the quality of your life what would help you to set up your budget or ‘spending plan’?

12)How can you interpret the following:”for many couples abroad money is the last frontier of self -exposure’?

13)Why do you think questions about how much one earns are rather frowned on in some cultures?

14)What pointers would you offer on family financial communication, to make it both instructive and effective? What is ‘discretionary’ money?

15)How do you think children can be taught to budget their own expenses?

16)What smart shopping tips can you give one?

17)What would you choose: to live for the day and spend every ruble you earn at your own discretion or save?

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