May I Borrow This?
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Unit C
4 • Citizenship and Virtual Worlds
WB p. 53
May I Borrow This?
➜ How is the British sharing economy connecting British people?
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b. Find a title for each category. Explain your choice.
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b. Name other companies, websites or charities which are part of the online sharing economy.
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What would you be prepared to give, lend, rent or sell to someone you don’t know? Do you feel comfortable with renting, borrowing or buying things from people you don’t know?
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Toolbox
Toolbox
- consumer (n.)
- economic system (n.)
- platform (n.)
- provider (n.)
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Vocabulary challenge
Make sentences using at least four words from the vocabulary lists.Ex: Couchsurfing means hosting travellers in your home. It’s flexible and promotes independence.
Idiom of the week!
Think outside the box
Idiom
This phrase appeared at the end of the 1960s in management classes, alongside the “Nine Dots” puzzle. To solve it, you will literally need to think ‘outside of the box’. This expression has been used since then to describe creative thinking, to find unconventional solutions.
Sharing Economy
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box 1
- barter (v.)
- collaborate (v.)
- borrow (v.)
- host (v.)
- lend (v.)
- offer (v.)
- rent (v.)
- ride (v.)
- swap (v.)
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box 2
- auto‑sharing (n.)
- carsharing (n.)
- cohousing
- coworking (n.)
- couchsurfing (n.)
- hosting (n.)
- tool sharing (n.)
- ubering (n.)
- woofing (n.)
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box 3
- open-source (adj.)
- peer-to-peer (adj.)
- collaborative economy (exp.)
- crowdfunding (n.)
- crowdsourcing (n.)
- crowdversting (n.)
- group-buying (n.)
- open innovation (n.)
- open knowledge (n.)
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box 4
- drivers (n.)
- educators (n.)
- hosts (n.)
- fablab (n.)
- makers (n.)
- peer (n.)
- riders (n.)
- shared garden (exp.)
- travellers (n.)
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box 5
- co‑creation = co‑design (n.)
- accommodation (n.)
- DIY = do it yourself (n.)
- sell ≠ give (v.)
- use ≠ own (v.)
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box 6
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