Exercise Discuss the following questions with your partner, your group, or your class Exercise Discuss the following questions with your partner, your group, or your class 1 Which Which age age groups groups are are worst worst affected affected by by unemployment unemployment in in your your country? country? 2 Do Do you you know know people people who who have have recently recently lost lost their their jobs? jobs? How How do they they get get by? by? 3 Do Do people people leave leave your your country country to to find find work work in in other other countries? countries? Where Where do they they go? go? What What sort sort of of jobs jobs do they they get? get? 4 Are Are there there many many immigrant immigrant workers workers in in your your country? country? What What sort sort of of jobs jobs do they they do? do? Do you know what the expression “run for the hills” means? Do you know what the expression “run for the hills” means? Exercise Exercise2.2.Read Readthe thearticle articleand andfill fillininthe themissing missinginformation informationininthe thetable tablebelow below Name Age Previous Job / Studies Present Job Moved from… Moved to… Giannis Pantoulis Evi Papadimitriou Evgenia Tsakili Exercise Answer the following questions from the text Exercise Answer the following questions from the text 1 How How do the the Greeks Greeks feel feel about about their their government’s government’s efforts efforts to to reduce reduce the the country’s country’s debt? debt? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 2 The The financial financial crisis crisis could could also also have have aa positive positive effect effect according according to to Evi Evi Papadimitriou Papadimitriou What What isis that? that? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 3 What What countries countries or or regions regions are are many many young young Greeks Greeks now now trying trying to to emigrate emigrate to? to? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 4 When When was was the the last last time time aa large large number number of of Greeks Greeks left left their their country? country? What What kind kind of of jobs jobs did did they they mostly mostly do abroad? abroad? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 5 How How many many Greeks Greeks posted posted their their resumes resumes with with Europass Europass last last September? September? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… 6 What What types types of of professionals professionals are are most most in in demand demand by by the the United United Kingdom Kingdom and and Germany? Germany? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Exercise Match the underlined words in the text with the definitions below and solve Exercise Match the underlined words in the text with the definitions below and solve the crossword the crossword Across Across 3 5 8 9 10 10 to to give give someone someone too too much much to to deal deal with with at at one one time time (v) (v) to to leave leave your your country country in in order order to to live live in in another another country country (v) (v) not not happening happening often often or or regularly regularly (adj) (adj) making making money money (adj) (adj) aa short short document document describing describing your your education, education, previous previous jobs, jobs, etc., etc., that that you you give give an an employer employer when when you you are are applying applying for for aa job job (n) (n) Down Down not not true true or or real real (adj) (adj) to to persuade persuade someone someone to to do something something or or go go somewhere somewhere by by offering offering them them something something exciting exciting (v) (v) someone someone whose whose job job is is to to buy buy and and sell sell shares shares in in companies companies for for other other people people (n) (n) the the act act of of saving saving or or rescuing rescuing something something (such (such as as aa business) from money problems (n) business) from money problems (n) to to increase increase faster faster and and faster faster (v) (v) to to change change the the direction direction of of something something to to its its opposite opposite (v) (v) http://areti-aroundtheworldinenglish.blogspot.com/ Stockbroker Giannis Pantoulis never imagined himself crouching in the dirt tending to grapevines in a small town in central Greece But that, he says, was before the financial crisis caused unemployment to spiral and major cities such as Athens to descend into chaos with daily protests and increased violence "I could foresee that the massive bubble of fake growth, prosperity and wealth would one day burst and I wanted to get out before it happened," said Pantoulis, 40 Two years ago, he packed his wife, their two children and all their possessions into a truck and made the 50-kilometre trip from the northern port city of Thessaloniki to Katerini Looking down at his wine-stained hands, Pantoulis admits the journey has not been easy and the business will take years to become profitable But he does not regret the move "Initially everyone thought I was crazy to move back to my father's town and take up winemaking, but now they too are seeing that the big cities have nothing to offer," said Pantoulis "Our politicians have failed us," he said "I am not the only one who has had enough others are also looking to leave." Pantoulis is part of a growing number of Greeks returning to their ancestral villages to take up farming, as the country struggles with its most serious economic crisis since World War II "As more and more people lose their jobs they are looking for a stable line of work and cheaper lifestyle something which will put food on the table, and farming offers this," said Dimitris Michaelidis from the Young Farmers Association of Greece "We are having a hard time keeping up with all the requests for information from people asking about what crops grow the best in a given area," he said Evi Papadimitriou, 30, is among the estimated 60,000 Greeks who have joined the farming community in the past two years, reversing the trend of migration to the cities Papadimitriou struggled to make ends meet after studying marketing in Athens, working at odd jobs unrelated to her field, before deciding to return to her parent's town of Arta, in north-western Greece, to start her own snail farm business "I could no longer afford to stay in Athens so I took the risk – if I make just enough to cover what I need to live on I will be happy," said Papadimitriou She believes the economic crisis may turn out to be a good thing as more and more young people will be forced to move to the countryside, bringing abandoned villages and towns back to life return Others were lured back by Greece's economic success after joining the euro and jobs opening up as Athens prepared to host the 2004 Olympic Games According to Europass, which provides employers and employment agencies with resumes of mainly young people from all over Europe, 13,300 Greeks sent in their resumes in September, compared to 2,200 the same month in 2008 More than 63 per cent where under the age of 30 "I could not get a job here and I just not see things getting any better for several more years to come," said biologist Evgenia Tsakili, 27, who found work as a laboratory researcher on the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus An October seminar on Australia's migration policy and visa procedures organized by its embassy in Athens caused its website to be backlogged with thousands of applications In Frankfurt, officials at the World Council of Hellenes Abroad, a group that represents and assists the Greek diaspora, said they have been swamped with requests for information on employment in Many educated, young Greeks are Germany "Every day we get calls, now also seeking to emigrate to the majority of which are young the United States, Australia, other professional people between 30parts of the Europe or the Middle 35 years old who are unemployed, The government's efforts to East More than five decades ago, seeking our advice and help about reduce Greece's massive debt and hundreds of thousands of poor working in Germany," Giorgos qualify for international bailout farmers and blue-collar workers Amarantidis from the council said loans have been met with anger left Greece to seek a better life in a phone interview He and disappointment as Greeks abroad, most of them working in estimates that 4,000 people have endure cuts to salaries, pensions factories or restaurants emigrated to Germany in the last and benefits amid rising costs three months, the majority During the prosperous 1980s and without finding work "Greek 1990s, a large number opted to doctors are being lured to the United Kingdom and Germany is asking for technical professionals such as engineers," said Amarantidis, who emigrated to Germany in the mid-1980s "Young Greek people are coming here terrorized by the state that Greece is in and for their future," he said "They tell us that they have no trust in the country's system and that they will not go back." ATHENS, Oct 31, 2011 [text taken from http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?storyid={c0045859-5348-4225-b128-b3d6b02313ef} ] ANSWER Exercise KEY Discuss the following questions with your partner, your group, or your class Exercise Discuss the following questions with your partner, your group, or your class 1 Which Which age age groups groups are are worst worst affected affected by by unemployment unemployment in in your your country? country? Do you know people who have recently lost their jobs? How they Do you know people who have recently lost their jobs? How they get get by? by? Do people leave your country to find work in other countries? Where Do people leave your country to find work in other countries? Where do they they go? go? What What sort sort of of jobs jobs do they they Name get? Age Previous Job / Studies Present Job Moved from… Moved to… get? 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More and more young people will be forced to move to the countryside, bringing abandoned villages and towns back to life What countries or regions are many young Greeks now trying to emigrate to? The United States, Australia, other parts of the Europe (such as the UK, Germany) or the Middle East When was the last time a large number of Greeks left their country? What kind of jobs did they mostly abroad? 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