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1st Year /2nd Semester DPM April 2022

English Listening

Name: __________________________________________________________ Mark: ____________________

1. You will hear Marko, from WhiteBoard Finance, talking about the best jobs for the future. Match the
jobs in column A with the information given in column B. Each idea is used once. (30p/____)
Column A Column B
2.
1. It requires the highest level of education.
2. It is basically an administrative job.
a. App Developer 3. It will have the highest projected growth by 2027.
b. Nurse Practitioner 4. It has the lowest median salary projection.
c. Health Services Manager 5. It will have a 30% projected growth by 2027.
6. It is behind a lot of things you do every day.

Listen to a report about three jobs predicted to exist in the near future and answer the questions in note
form. (90p/____)

a. How many jobs are we likely to lose to automation by 2025?

b. How many pounds of trash do humans produce annually?


c. What’s the name of the future job which will help solve the
Earth’s waste problems?
d. What could these professionals turn the rubbish into?

e. What is the only hope to replace fossil fuels?


f. What’s the new job that will decide what kind of energy
is right for your house?
g. What new job will emerge in the medical field because
of robots and machines?
h. When will these professionals take care of the patients?

i. What will they also make sure of?

Part II
Listen to some successful people sharing their best career advice for youngsters and find out

who said what. Tick (✓) the correct names. (40/___)

Maya J.K. Brian Cynthia


Angelou Rowling Chesky Tidwell
a. Don’t let anyone, most of all your
parents, pressure you into a career path.
b. Be patient enough to learn but take
some risks.
c. If you don’t like your past or future path,
build a new one.
d. Make career decisions based on what
you love doing.
e. Failure is inevitable. What matters is
what you learn from it.

2. Listen to a workplace expert talking about some flaws of flexitime and decide whether the
sentences are True (T) or False (F). (40/___)
T F
a. Many employees admit that flexitime is an important office perk for them.
b. When employees are on varying work hours it is very easy to schedule meetings
and get prompt answers to emails and phone calls.
c. In a flexitime office there can never be a workaholic culture.
d. Flexitime employees may feel compelled to be working all the time due to the
absence of a structured work schedule and a designated work space.
e. More than half of flexitime employees are not trained how to use and optimise
the potential of flexibility.

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