The Internet is after your Job

I Warm-up.

A) Write down as many names of jobs as you can in 3 minutes. Compare your list with your group mates’ ideas.

B) Which jobs on your list still exist today? What jobs have already disappeared (if they are not on your list think of some jobs)? What new jobs have appeared in 21^st century? What are they?

C) What jobs are skilled and which are unskilled?

D) Which of the jobs would you like to have or try doing in future and why? What jobs do not seem interesting for you and why?

II Study the active vocabulary and focus on Ukrainian equivalents of English words.

obsolete що вийшов з загального вжитку, застарілий

unskilled некваліфікований

manual labour фізична праця

affect впливати

working class робочий клас

educated освічений

 creative industry розважальна індустрія

 value вартість

shrink скорочувати

 drastically різко

poised готовий

disrupt порушити

preserve прерогатива

middle class середній клас

accountant бухгалтер

 lawyer   адвокат

simplify спрощувати

legal document юридичний документ

overhyped переоцінений  

remain залишатися

competition конкурент

higher education вища освіта

secure гарантований

upscale розширити масштаби

app додаток

 put in touch with   допомагати зв’язатися з

 GP лікар загальної практики, терапевт

cloud service хмарний сервіс

ailment нездужання

compete конкурувати

diagnose діагностувати

commodification виведення на ринок

worldwide світовий

freelance позаштатний

workforce робоча сила

winner-takes-all переможець отримує все

local business місцеве підприємство

depend on покладатися на

regular customer постійний клієнт

cut loose звільнити

lack нестача

employee benefits виплати та пільги для співробітників

get paid отримувати платню

majority більшість

stand out виділятися

crowd натовп

carve вибивати

niche ніша

suitably відповідним чином

lucrative прибутковий

billion мільярд

giant величезний

monopoly монополія

pitch презентувати

renowned знаменитий

field of expertise галузь спеціалізації

  

III Vocabulary focus. Study the words and  word combinations, check your understanding using flashcards, practise their translation, spelling. Check your knowledge in the test. Play matching vocabulary game (match words to their translations to make cards disappear)  and save the planet from asteroids by typing in correct translation of the words.

IV Watch the video and fill in the gaps with the words from the list. There are some words you don’t need to use.

employs; unskilled; fight; progress; affected; watching; destroys; overrated; never; upscale; now;  however; working; vision; creative; middle; educated; information; professions; alright; know; potential; music; security; technology;  faster; how; Internet; generation; value; career;

Technology 1)______ jobs. We 2)______ this. It has the 3)______ to make entire 4)______ obsolete 5)______ than you can say ‘Xerox’. Oh, well, people thought: “6)______ mind. It’s the price of 7)______.” But that was because it was largely 8)______ manual labour jobs that were 9)______, working-class jobs. And as long as you were 10)______, you’d be 11)______. But then came the 12)______.

          Sure, the 13)______ classes are still losing jobs to 14)______, but now it’s hitting 15)______ classes too. And within a 16)______ we may find that there’s no such thing as a 17)______ or at least not one with any 18)______. For a 19)______ of the future look at the 20)______ industries. We’ve become so used to 21)______ films, listening to 22)______ or getting 33)______ for free, that their 24)______ has shrunk drastically.

V Watch the video. Focus on the part devoted to the use of technology to get a diagnosis or a piece of advice from a doctor. Note down the complaints or ailments people in the video have (they are written in speech bubbles).

VI Watch the video and choose the correct option to complete the sentences.

That same mnemonic/economy/economic model is now poised to disrupt all sorts of industries/industrial/streets that were typically the preserve of the meddle/middle/needle class, such as accounted/ account/accountants, lawyers, teachers/teaches/preachers, and to some degree doctor’s/proctors/doctors. Online services such as Crunch and Free Agent are taking the place of the why treat/high street/ light breed accountant. Companies such as LegalZoom and Rocket Lawyer are amplifying/simplifying/implying the process of creating lethal documents/legal doctrines/legal documents. And whilst MOOCs, massively open online courses, may have been overhyped, they remain competition/compete/competed for higher education. “Ah, but”, - say the doctors: “we’re assure/not sure/secure. We have a personal intersection/connected/connection with each of our patients. You can’t upscale our profession/impression/professed”. True. But there’re already apps/props/drops like HealthTap and Doctor on Demand which can put patients directly in large/touch/touched with a GP/JP/RP from their cellular/smartphone/smart homes. Imagine that combined with a allowed service/cloud service/proud service like TaskRabbit where you could send a list/twist/listing of jobs, or say invents/allies/ailments, and hundreds of doctors around the world compete to diagnose/impose/propose you. This is the commodification of laborious/harbour/labour where any one task or service can be put out to a hungry worried/worldwide/worrying and freelance workforce. Where it’s winner-takes-all and no one local business/local impression/legal papers could depend on regular customs/customers/customs officers. And even those who are working can’t make any warranted/guarded/guarantees where invented/innovative/innovations are concerned. For example, what’s to stop a company/accompanied/companion like taxi app Uber cutting loose its tens of thousands of diver/driving/drivers once driverless/dive for less/driven cars become replace/ in place/commonplace?

VII  Watch the video and fill in the gaps in the text.

So what prospects do we have for finding secure 1)____, work that 2)____well enough to cover our new lack of formal employee 3)____in this new informal 4)____? After all, you can’t get 5)____in likes. And what about the 6)____that will make up the 7)____of the working population now migrating to the 8)____? Well, the trick may be to stand out from the 9)____by carving your own niche, an area of your 10)____which is suitably specialist but which isn’t lucrative enough that you’ll be competing with 11)____of freelancers or one giant 12)____. And go global, pitch yourself to the world and become renowned for your particular 13)____of expertise. Or if that doesn’t work, you could become a 14)____.  

VIII Watch the video. Note down the suggested ‘new niches’ or ‘areas of expertise’ (they are written on name tags). Which of these new jobs (they are humorous jobs) would you like to try? What new ‘jobs’ of the same kind can you invent (think of at least 2).

IX Watch all parts of the video and answer the questions.

1.    What dangers does technology present to the jobs in 21^st century?

2.    What jobs are affected by the technology today?

3.    How can people use apps to get the services previously delivered by professionals? What apps and services can help (give examples)?

4.    What jobs are more secure than others against the threat of technology?

5.    Does technology compete with higher education? Why or why not?

6.    If all people become freelancers, what would happen to their employee benefits?

7.    How does technology affect local business? Is there still such a phenomenon as a regular customer today?

8.    What should people who don’t want to lose their jobs do? Where can they find work?

X OVER TO YOU. Think of your career or the job you are studying for. How is this job affected by the development of Internet? Will this job become obsolete in future? If no, how would it change under the influence of technology? How can you adapt to the change in workforce to compete with millions of freelancers in the new labour market?