TED Talk: How to make work-life balance work

TED Talk: How to make work-life balance work

Pre- Listening

1) What does the term work life balance mean to you?

2) Do you think you have a good work life balance?

3) What factors determine your work life balance?

4) What jobs come with the best work life balance, or other ‘perks’?

5) Look at the comic strip below, is it funny? How/Why? How truthful is it?

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Listening for a gist

Circle the topics mentioned

Listening for detail

Answer

• How old was Nigel when he decided to change his lifestyle?
• What isn’t a very useful skill?

Fill in the gaps with the missing words:All the discussions about ________ or dress-down _______ or ___________ leave only serve to mask the core issue, which is that certain job and _________ choices are fundamentally ____________ with being meaningfully __________ on a day-to-day basis with a young family.

• Who is responsible for creating the types of life people want?

Fill in the gaps with the missing words:Commercial companies are _________to get as much out of you [as] they can _________to _________ _________.

• What was included in Nigel’s “detailed, step-by-step description of the ideal balanced day”?
• How many ‘sides’ of life are there? What are they?
• What do you think ‘daunting’ means?
• What is Nigel’s main point?

Post- Listening

1) Based on the listening, do you think your work-life balance only affects you? 2) Do you agree with any of Nigel's arguments? Which ones? Why? 3) In general which countries have a better, or worse, work life balance? Why?