‘A more human LinkedIn’: Spain media project helping Covid jobless

Level: Advanced – Teacher’s notes

Key:
Article summary: A new altruistic project in 1. harnessing 4. ferocity
Spain is helping people who lost their jobs 2. meagre 5. empathize
due to the effects of the pandemic to find 3. trades 6. fielding
new work.
3. Find the information
Time: 90 minutes
a. Students answer the questions with information from
Skills: Reading, Speaking, Writing the article.

Language focus: Vocabulary & phrasal verbs Key:

1. He has a daughter who he looks after. He is a
Materials needed: One copy of the
widower. His father died from coronavirus. He
worksheet per student
lived in Madrid in Spain – now he has moved to
the north of Spain for his new job. His daughter
has been living with relatives while he started
1. Warmer his job in the north. He quickly used up all the
money he had saved, and he had to miss meals
a. Hold a short group brainstorming session in and beg for food and money.
which students offer short answers to these three 2. He is a leather worker. He used to supply
questions. Collect their answers on a board or leather pieces to shops, markets and the military
shared screen. If anyone is currently applying for a but due to lockdown and other pandemic-related
job, or has recently done so, they could offer a bit events, that work stopped very quickly. As there
more information. was no warning, he could not look for alternative
work and soon found himself unemployed.
2. Key words 3. He got to know a family while he was begging
outside a supermarket. The daughter of the
a. Students write the correct word from the wordpool family told him about Un Mismo Equipo.
next to the definitions on the lines provided. Then 4. A friend sent Perales a photo of a skilled
they should find and highlight them in the article to electrician who was asking people for work
read them in context. on the street in the centre of Madrid. Perales
wanted to help the man and so posted the
Key: picture on his Instagram account.
1. ferocity   9. harnessing 5. Perales, a film-maker, already had a large
2. vindictive 10. recruited following on Instagram after his video about
3. stun 11. fielding being diagnosed with a form of cancer went viral
4. widowed 12. empathize four years previously.
5. folded 13. trades 6. These older unemployed tradespeople are
6. meagre 14. wrought less likely to be tech-savvy, something that is
7. skipping 15. dignity necessary for searching for jobs these days.
8. altruistic 7. Most of these people have mobile phones and
they can use free wifi in cafés and other public
b. Before reading the article carefully, students places to connect with Perales, his colleagues
use some of the key words to fill the gaps in the and the project.
sentences to ensure that they understand and know 8. Perales hopes that the project, which he and
how the words are used in other contexts. his colleagues plan to turn into a social start-up
company, will soon be able to help ten times the
number of people find jobs.
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 ‘A more human LinkedIn’: Spain media project helping Covid jobless
Level: Advanced – Teacher’s notes

4. Key language

a. Students use the words in the box to make phrasal

verbs from the article that they then should use to
replace the words in italics in each of the sentences.
Ask them to find and highlight the phrasal verbs in
the article to check their answers.

Key:
1. ran out 5. cut off
2. cut off 6. write up
3. picking at 7. fill in
4. rolled in 8. saving up

b. Then, they choose the ones they would most like to

learn and write one or two example sentences for
each one.

5. Discussion

a. Students discuss the questions directly connected to

the article.

6. In your own words

a. Students interview a partner and write up their

partner’s employment and work life in an engaging
way (rather than listing the main points) so that
potential employers can empathize with them.
Encourage them to write between 200 and 300
words. This reflects the length of the texts on Un
Mismo Equipo. If you are teaching one-to-one, your
student should write about themself (or about you!).
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