MCO 1 – Lesson 2 (Working life)

par · 7 février 2024

INTRODUCTION

🟩 1 - INDIVIDUAL WORK

Do the activities in the app below (and copy the answers onto your worksheet)

🟩 2- TEAMWORK

✒ What impact does the working environment have on the work?

  • En équipe/ pairwork : essayer de trouver des idées.
  • Revoir la construction du comparatif
  • Trace écrite (sous forme de bingo à 6 cases?) → mise en commun 
✅ 3 - LET'S RECAP

What impact does the working environment have on the work?

🆘 LE COMPARATIF

  • (Plus ….. que)
    • Quand l’adjectif est ‘court’ (1 syllabe ou 2 syllabes se terminant pas -y) → adj-er (than)
    • Quand l’adjectif est ‘long (2 syllabe ou +) → more + adj + (than)
  • (Moins … que)
    • Adjectifs courts ou longs → less …. (than)
  • (Aussi/ autant …. que) 
    • Adjectifs courts ou longs → as …… (as)
✅ 3 - LET'S RECAP
🥇CHALLENGE: What impact does the working environment have on the work?
→ Produire 8 phrases correctes dont 4 comparatifs que vous soulignerez.

SEXIST DRESS CODES

Doc 1 (texte)
🟩 1- TEAM/PAIRWORK

🥇CHALLENGE

🟩 2- INDIVIDUAL WORK

READ THE TEXT and answer the questions ↓ use the app below and copy the answers onto your worksheet ↓

✅ LET'S RECAP

LANGUAGE ACTIVITY 2

Expression écrite
  • What do you think workers should wear at work, and why?

Trace écrite

I think/ In my opinion …

  • We should wear comfortable pants and shoes because it is important to feel good at work.
  • It is important to let women choose the clothes that they want to wear because it is important to be comfortable at work.
  • If we work for an insurance company, an estate agency, or a bank, we need to wear a suit with a tie (or a bow tie) and have a neat haircut.
  • It is more important to respect workers’ choices and not impose a dress code.
  • It depends on the employers and if they want to impose an specific outfit.
  • It depends on the type of work: if we work indoors or outdoors.
  • If we work for a prestigious store (or company/ brand) we should wear an elegant/ neat outfit because it reflects the image of the brand or company.

STRESS AT WORK

Doc 2 (video)
🟩 1- TEAM/PAIRWORK

Are you often stressed?
What are the main causes of stress in people’s lives?

  • 🦉 Réfléchir à la question à 2 ou en équipe → Diapo (puis placemat à compléter):
    • What is the main cause of stress in people’s lives?
    • Are you often stressed? why?
    • Stress at school/ work
    • Stress at home
    • What do you do to be less stressed?
🟩 2- INDIVIDUAL WORK

WATCH THE VIDEO and answer the questions ↓ use the app below and copy the answers onto your worksheet ↓

✅ LET'S RECAP
👂🏼FOCUS ON SOUNDS

Do the pronunciation activity (slide 2): the intonation in questions

HAPPINESS IN THE WORKPLACE

Doc 3 (text)
🟩 1- TEAM/PAIRWORK
  • 🦉Sans téléphone / utilisation du dictionnaire unilingue

1) READ AND STUDY THE TEXT

  1. a- Highlight the following words in the text: a trend – improvements – advice – to praise – a pillow – a closet – to hide – to shape
    b- Associate each word with its French meaning: faire l’éloge – des améliorations – un oreiller – un placard – se cac her – une tendance/mode – tolérer – façonner
  2. Who is who? Identify the 5 people mentioned in this document and fin who is
    • Jolly Good Fellow for Google
    • the writer of the article
    • CHO for Ikea in 2010
    • a Professor of Business at Wharton
    • the first CHO in the United States
  3. What do you learn about happiness in the workplace?
    • Is ‘workplace happiness’ a popular subject? Explain.
    • what is a CHO? What does his job involve? How?
    • what are the benefits of a happy workplace?
    • how to increase happiness in the workplace?

🅰 What do you learn about happiness in the workplace?

  • Is ‘workplace happiness’ a popular subject? Explain. -Le bonheur au travail est un sujet très populaire dans les entreprises
  • what is a CHO? What does his job involve? How?
    • Chief Happiness Officer.
    • Il n’y a pas beaucoup de CHO dans les entreprises en ce moment
    • Le rôle d’un CHO est de veiller à ce que les employés soient heureux au travail en leur offrant des avantages, en organisant des fêtes ou des événements, etc.
  • What are the benefits of a happy workplace? Les entreprises où les employés sont heureux :
    • Niveaux de rotation, d’épuisement professionnel et d’absentéisme réduits
    • Amélioration du travail d’équipe + collaboration/ coopération + soutien mutuel
    • Amélioration des performances financières et de la satisfaction au travail
    • Amélioration de l’exécution de tâches spécifiques
  • how to increase happiness in the workplace?
    • Il dit aux managers de féliciter souvent les employés et de les saluer le matin.
    • Il a organisé une bataille de polochons avec des employés et des clients..

2) LE COMPTE-RENDU

Lisez la méthodologie 🖱ici

✅ LET'S RECAP

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