FREELANCER Portal of independent professionals. 1.How would you organize your day if you worked from home? Would it be different from your current school.

FREELANCER Portal of independent professionals

BEFORE YOU WATCH

1. How would you organize your day if you worked from home? Would it be different from your current school days?

2. If you worked from home, what would be the biggest distraction for you? (e.g. fridge, TV, family members, the outdoors, Internet, etc.? Would you have enough discipline to sit and work? What kind of environment do you need around you to concentrate?

3. If you were going to work as a freelancer, what area of service would you be interested in offering? What additional skills would you need to work independently? How would you learn them?

4. Do you know people working independently? Would it be possible for you to be a freelancer and go to school at the same time? What would be the challenges for you to do both? Explain.

Exercise 1

Are these statements TRUE or FALSE?1. It’s good for people who think of becoming freelancers to talk to people

who already are ones.

2. You don’t need to be 100% reliable if you do something useful for the community.

3. Ayn Rand is a writer and an economist from the Austrian School of Economics.

4. Building your own career independently is not as common an approach in Czech Republic as it is in England or the U.S.

5. Being a freelancer is about an attitude to life.

6. The speaker recommends you watch a lot of videos to see examples of how people think.

7. The speaker recommends you read novels for inspiration.

8. An e-lancer is different from an independent contractor.

WHILE YOU WATCH Exercise 2

Listen and fill in the gaps

1. or we can use terms such as independent professional or independent contractor.

2. Well, I think the big thing is that you can build a on your own. You are , you can choose your way of living, of working and you hold your in your own hands.

3. I think it’s not as common approach in Czech Republic.

4. I mean, over the years you may decide to become entrepreneur or you may decide to stay to stick with your profession and to go deeper into what is it and how is it to be a master of your skill or something like that.

5. First of all, anything that is related to to in general.

6. Because the direct is probably the most important.

7. You have to be reliable, I mean 100% reliable, always fulfil what you say, what you promise.

Exercise 3

Match the following English expressions with their Czech equivalent

AFTER YOU WATCH Exercise 4

1. RELIABLE A) SPLNIT

2. FULFILL B) MISTR

3. MASTER C) TERMÍN

4. RELATED TO D) PŘÍSTUP

5. TERM E) SPOLEHLIVÝ

6. CONTRACTOR F) PODNIKATEL

7. APPROACH G) VE VZTAHU K

8. ENTREPRENEUR H) SMLUVNÍ STRANA, DODAVATEL

GROUP DISCUSSION AND PRESENTATION

DEBATE: Divide the class according into two groups according to their opinion whether they would like to be employees or freelancers. The goal of the discussion on each side is to persuade your opponents to change their mind and to join your group. Which arguments are the most powerful? Which group is the largest at the end of the activity? Explain why you joined or switched over to the group you did.

PREPARE AND PRESENT: Divide the class into four groups and select one of the following four: Ayn Rand, Friederich Hayek, Karl Popper and the Austrian School of Economics. Research on the Internet and the library and prepare a presentation for the others. What contributions did each make? Why are they recognized as being important? Why are they important for you?

Exercise 5

1. The speaker said, “ … we can say e-lancer which is basically a freelancer working over the Internet.“

A) The best translation of the word which into Czech is: 1) který 2) kdo 3) což

B) Which English word above is the correct one to use in the sentence?

2. Which of the following sentences uses the word which correctly? A) He didn’t help me, which annoyed me. B) That’s the man, which annoyed me. C) That’s the behaviour, which annoyed me. D) Which would you like to drink, tea or beer?

3. Why are some of the sentences incorrect? In which sentences above are the commas used correctly?

4. Can the word which appear in the following sentences when translated into English?

A) To je přesně to, o čem jsem mluvil.

B) Mluví moc nahlas, což mě ruší.

C) Auto, které ji srazilo, bylo stříbrné.

D) Co budete dělat?

E) Co budete dělat? Půjdete domů nebo zůstanete?

5. What professions can easily be done by freelancers? What are the advantages of being a freelancer?

Exercise 6TEST