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Section B1: What is Gig Economy?

Speaking airbnb - rent or book your house/room in your house amazon flex - deliver amazon parcels croqqer - search for a project or ask help for a project deliveroo - a home delivery food service etsy - online platform for artists selling their wares task rabbit - jobs like cleaning/window cleaning uber - alternative to a taxi udemy - a global marketplace for learning and teaching online Uurtjeover - a job finding platform

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Video watching To illustrate that the sharing economy is a good thing. Economy is often seen as a dirty word. Neighbours lending each other food, tools and a place to crash (sleep). By saying that humans have been sharing and lending things to each other for thousands of years. Airbnb (rooms) Uber (carpooling) With consumerism, comes waste. Also that consumerism is perhaps at a tipping point (i.e. can’t go any further). It’s young and youthful, and it is growing.

Reading Students own answers - no sick pay, no holiday pay, no job security, might not actually have any work. Answers: Whilst the work offers flexibility, there is no or little workplace protection (holiday pay/sick pay). Also, when you don’t work, you don’t get paid. They lost their appeal against a previous ruling that stated that one of their plumbers was a worker rather than an independent contractor. Flexible hours, control over how much time you work while juggling with other things you have to do in your life. Neither have guaranteed hours or much job security, but zero hours contracts are seen as employees in some sense and they are entitled to holiday pay. Tax – in 2020- 2021 it could be worth £3.5 bn Students own answers: The gig economy is a new way of working, and in the future there may be other ways of working.

Grammar Answers Exercise 2: Seldom have I seen such poor driving. Never before have I travelled by plane. Rarely did my parents help me with my homework. Not only can I dance but I can sing too. Hardly had Martin finished one assignment when he had to start another one. At no time did anyone teach us anything useful about personal finances.