Watch the video to complete the exercises from today's lesson: exercises 4 & 6.
Comprehension
4
Watch Chade-Meng Tan’s talk on TED.com. Are the sentences true (T)
or false (F) according to the speaker?
1
Matthieu Ricard is the happiest man on the planet because he is very
rich. _____
2
More people would be compassionate if compassion was fun and
profitable. _____
3
Three members of Google managed to raise enough money to build a
school for 200,000 people in India. _____
4
The social responsibility team at Google was formed as part of Google
business strategy. _____
5
There are two components of compassion: affective and motivational.
_____
6
Compassion can help grow very successful business leaders. _____
7
Leadership training in Google focuses on personal growth. _____
8
‘Search Inside Yourself’ is a Google course which develops
attention, self-knowledge and self-mastery, and creates new mental
habits. _____
Language
focus – corporate social responsibility
6
Watch a part (3.10−5.40) of the TED Talk again. Complete the
collocations in bold with these words.
action
donate initiative medical money pattern responsibility
1
‘In Google, expressions of corporate compassion almost always
follow
the same _______________
.’
2
‘It starts with a small group of Googlers taking
the _______________
to
do
something.’
3
‘The first example is the largest annual community event – where
Googlers from around the world _______________ their
labour to their
local communities ...’
4
‘… they learned about a region in India where 200,000 people live
without a single _______________
facility.
5
‘And they raise
enough _______________
to
build
this hospital …’
6
‘In China for example, one mid-level employee initiated the largest
social
_______________
competition in China ...’
7
‘… the company decided to form
a social _______________
team
just
to support these efforts.’
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