SESSION 14: EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

SESSION 14: EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

NOTE: IN ORDER TO WORK WITH THE TEXT, UNDERSTAND AND PREPARE IT BETTER I RECOMMEND THESE EXERCISES:

THERE WILL BE TWO TYPES OF EXERCISES:

1. EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT: THESE ARE EXERCISES FOCUSING ON THE READING COMPREHENSION, WORKING WITH VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIONS.

2. EXERCISES FOR DISCUSSION: EXERCISES FOCUSING ON THE PREPARATION FOR THE DISCUSSION.

1. EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

1.1 TRUE/FALSE: Look at the article and guess whether these sentences are True (T) or False (F):

a. A global bank tried to find out who its friendliest customers were.
b. Researchers asked over 3,000 people about their own countries.
c. People were asked whether their own country was friendly.
d. The report says the world’s friendliest countries are English-speaking.
e. The bank says it wants to be the world’s largest supplier of expats.
f. The UAE finished bottom of the list.
g. Around four-fifths of the UAE is made up of expatriates.
h. A woman described India as being like a minefield for expats.

1.2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:
1. shows ...................... a. mixing
2. conducted ................. b. descent
3. questioned ................ c. reveals
4. assess ...................... d. workers
5. integrating ................ e. priceless
6. invaluable ................. f. interviewed
7. origin ...................... g. never-ending
8. comprises of .............. h. carried out
9. labourers .................. i. is made up of
10. relentless ................ j. evaluate

1.3 PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from this article (sometimes more than one option is possible):

1. which countries offered the most .......... a. with the new culture

2. they asked 3,385 .............................. b. of origin
3. their second ................................... c. community
4. fitting in ....................................... d. paid labourers
5. integrating into the local .................... e. into expat life
6. the largest global survey ..................... f. respondents
7. invaluable insights ............................ g. comfortable lifestyles
8. from an expats’ home country .............. h. challenges
9. poorly .......................................... i. home
10. daily .......................................... j. of expats

1.4 GAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text:
ASSESS - FITTING - OFFERED - FOLLOWED - SHOWS - BASED - CONDUCTED - RANKED

A new report (1) ____________ which are the friendliest countries in the world. The HSBC bank (2) ____________ the Expat Explorer Survey to find out which countries (3) ____________ the most comfortable lifestyles. Researchers questioned people in one hundred different countries between May and July 2011. They asked 3,385 respondents to (4) ____________ how willing they would be to make different countries their second home. The questions were (5) ____________ on how easy it is to make friends with the local people; learning the local language; (6) ____________ in with the new culture; and integrating into the local community. The top-(7) ____________ country was New Zealand, (8) ____________ by Australia, South Africa, Canada and the United States.

POORLY - ORIGIN - DAILY - SURVEY - WHOLE - MARKETING - SECOND - DIFFERS

Head of (9) ____________ for HSBC, Lisa Wood, said: “As the largest global (10) ____________ of expats, Expat Explorer allows us to capture invaluable insights into expat life and how it (11) ____________ from country to country, continent to continent and from an expats’ home country of (12) ____________.” The lowest ranked country was the United Arab Emirates, which is surprising as around 80 per cent of the (13) ____________ population comprises of expatriates. Many of these are (14) ____________ paid labourers who are unlikely to be eligible for HSBC’s survey. India finished (15) ____________ bottom. Danish expat Pia Mollback-Verbic said India “is simply a minefield of relentless mental, emotional and practical (16) ____________ challenges for most non-Indians.”