WEEK 7
THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY
FOR PROFESSIONAL
SUCCESS IN TIMES OF
PANDEMIC. By the end of
INTRODUCTION TO THE TOPIC March, ZOOM had
Technology has become one of the most important tools to reached 200 million
face people’s responsibilities in times of Pandemic. Some
workers have the possibility of working from home. Before
daily users, up
times of Pandemic, it was developed by some workers, today 1,900% from its
is new a tendency. previous best of 10
m www.forbes.com
OBJECTIVES
1. To use vocabulary and language related to
telecommuting/teleworking.
2. To read a short text and gives the main idea and
Look at the image and write down your ideas.
Why do they wear mask? Why are they
separated?
TOPIC
EXPLANATIO Times of Pandemic
N
On March 11, 2020, World Health Organization, (WHO) confirmed Coronavirus as
pandemic. After this announcement, it was necessary to make certain changes in people’s
life styles. Some activities could not continue doing in the same form because the virus is
thought to spread mainly from person-to-person. For this reason, it was necessary to
establish certain sanitary codes. Some example are
Wash your hands often
Cover coughs and sneezes
Clean and disinfect
Avoid close contact
About the last one, avoid close contact, people could not go their jobs and do
their tasks. There was a campaign, whose slogan was “stay safe, stay home”. For that
reason, telecommuting or teleworking was considered as the best option to continue
helping with economy. Since March, there are millions of helping doing their jobs from
home with the same level of productivity.
VOCABULAR KEY WORDS FOR YOUR
Y VOCABULARY
Word Definition
Dismiss (formal) (verb) to officially remove somebody from their job.
Fire (informal) (verb) Informal way, to express that somebody is removed from
their job.
Freelance earning money by selling your work or services to several
different organizations rather than being employed by one
particular organization.
Telecommuting the practice of working from home, making use of the
internet, email and phone
Teleworking the practice of working from home, making use of the
internet, email and phone
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com
READING
COMPREHENSIO Telecommuting or Teleworking
N
Telecommuting
Teleworking is defined as remote work or work from home, during
which the employee is working away from the primary place of
work (office), usually at their home.
To work from home, it is necessary that the employees must
follow certain rules:
1- to perform additional tasks assigned to
the workers outside their usual work roles, during an event
of an emergency.
2- To think up a daily routine, keep hours consistent, eliminate any potential distractions and
leave communication channels open (phone, emails, cellphones, video conference (Zoom,
Google Meet, Jitsi Meet, Teams).
3- To take care for kids, or dependent elderly, while teleworking is not realistic. The teleworkers
should assume that a space at home is the office, and it is not allowed to do a task that is
not related to his-her functions.
4- To work in teams. When people work in teams, the job is easier.
There is a fact or truth, which worries to many people. There are jobs, which cannot be developed
by teleworking. For that reason, some workers may lose their jobs or may be dismissed. When
they lose their jobs, they search for other options of job. One of them is freelance.
ACTIVITY 1 Select the best answer for the definition.
Teleworking is a- to work at office b- to work at home c- to work at company
To dismiss is a- to be freelance b- to work c- to fire
To think up is a- to devise b- to work c- to dismiss
To follow is a- to lose b- to search c- to obey
To take care of is a- to work b- to tend c- to dismiss
ACTIVITY 2 a-Select what is the main idea of the reading
a When people do teleworking, they can combine their personal duties
with their professional duties.
b When people do teleworking, they do not need to report what they
have done while they work at home.
c When people do teleworking, they must obey some norms that the
company sets up.
ACTIVITY 2 b-Answer True of False.
When people are in video conference, they only use Google Meet.
To follow norms is one of the most important requirements when people
work at home.
Teleworkers only use the cellphone to ask for and to give information.
Freelance means that you can work with different organizations.
The verb “fire” is an informal way of saying that a person loses her-his
jobs.
ACTIVITY 2 c-Answer the following question
What is the most important requirement for developing teleworking?
STRUCTU PASSIVE VOICE (FORM, MEANING AND
RE USE)
Form Subject + Verb be (am-is-are) + Verb (past participle) + Predicate.
Meaning
Active voice means that a sentence has a subject that acts upon its verb.
Passive voice means that a subject is a recipient of a verb’s action.
Use descriptive texts like reports or description of a process.
Examples:
The teleworker sends the email. (active The email is sent by the teleworker.
voice)
The team worker writes the report. The report is written by him.
They follow some rules at home. Some rules are followed by them.
Make some sentences in passive voice, describing the table of
ACTIVITY 3 information.
Example: Rosa’s task: to get the documents.
Passive voice: The documents are gotten by Rosa
Rose’s tasks Jeremy’s tasks
✓ to send three emails ✓ to prepare the meeting report.
✓ to get the image of the product ✓ to select the product
✓ to make the project. ✓ to propose three solutions
1- 1-
2- 2-
3- 3-
Complete the following ideas with words from the
word chart, and use the first letter of the word to
find a hidden word.
Available Beyond Computer Dismiss Email Fire
Google Home Intranet Job Know Listen
Massive News Opportunity Pandemics Quarantine Remote
Search Technology Useful Vacant Worker X-ray
Yo-yo Zoom
Computer is one example of …
Rosa sends an …
Rosa’s boss says “…” and “write these
tasks
Rosa and Jeremy are … of that
company
My … is broken and I need a new one.
I have an … for working with this
company.
It is possible to send … emails
Jeremy has some … doubts about the
products.
There are some … strategies to follow if
the worker is doing teleworking.
I always read … before working
I have problems with the … because I
cannot share the information.
What do you know about …?
…is a system that connects the
computers.
I have a good … for him. He won´t be
dismissed.
This is a search machine and started in
1996.
THE HIDDEN WORD IS
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
Final Evaluation Activity
Survey about how
telecommuting/teleworking has been
developed in Panama since March 2020.
To survey is to gather information about a topic. To do it, follow the following
process of four steps:
✓ Step one: read the survey. It has 3 questions.
✓ Step two: make these questions to 10 people. Observation: you can
interview people in your family context, make phone calls to your friends,
relatives, send a what’s App message or an email.
✓ Step three: tally the results
How many “yes”
How many “no”
✓ Step four: analyze the data and present the results
Objectives: to know how many people are doing teleworking in your context.
Survey
Questions YES NO
Do you have a job?
Do you continue going to
your work?
Do you do teleworking?
Report
I live in Province
I surveyed about
I interviewed people. Rubric
The results were the following: Criteria 1 2 3
Quantity of people who do teleworking in my Followed
context steps
YE NO Completed
S the report
Wrote the
fact
Evidence
It is a fact that (data-
results)
Observation: present your results in percentages.
More words for your vocabulary
GLOSSAR
Y
Word Definition
distraction a thing that takes your attention away from what you are doing or
thinking about
elderly people who are old
employee a person who is paid to work for somebody.
function a special activity or purpose of a person or thing
opportunity a time when a particular situation makes it possible to do or achieve
something
perform to do something, such as a piece of work, task or duty
realistic sensible and appropriate; possible to achieve
https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com
Check your learning outcomes.
I CAN…
I can give the main
idea about a given
reading. I can
describe ideas using
the passive voice.
I can survey and report information.
