Converse English

Thursday, 20 October 2016

Benchmark Higher - Compassion at Google


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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