What does every top corporate boss need? Lego

The success of many leading companies depends on an effective management team and they are always (0) …………… ways to encourage those managers to (1) …………… along with each other. In previous years, those ways have (2) …………… from weekends where managers went camping together to white-water rafting. Now the latest corporate team-building technique that is becoming increasingly popular in the management (3) …………… is sitting for hours round a table making shapes out of Lego, the well-known building bricks that so many children have grown up with. But don’t be (4) …………… by those familiar green and yellow plastic blocks – this is Lego for adults, and among senior executives it is the hottest management (5) …………… since the go-everywhere laptop. Companies are now (6) …………… to send senior staff along to learn what Lego can do for their corporate ethos, and management consultants are even (7) …………… themselves to running Lego sessions to (8) …………… the demand. They claim that the multicolored bricks can (9) …………… free managers from a limited imagination. What does this mean in (10) ……………? For a start, staff (11) …………… a session are encouraged to ‘unlock their creative potential’ while they build models to understand how their businesses work. By (12) …………… their firms as three-dimensional structures, they can build models which are metaphors for the issues that often occur at work.

1 A go	B come	C get	D work
2 A covered	B included	C ranged	D consisted
3 A circle	B world	C level	D area
4 A attracted	B concerned	Cdirected	D fooled
5 A tool	B equipment	C instrument	D gadget
6 A enthusiastic	B agreeable	C eager	D excited
7 A specializing	B focusing	C concentrating	D dedicating
8 A fill	B recognize	C meet	D supply
9 A assist	B help	C aid	D support
10 A theory	B truth	C practice	D reality
11 A joining	B following	C participating	D entering
12 A symbolizing	B demonstrating	C illustrating	D representing

CINEMA

MOTION PICTURES: THE OLD AND THE NEW

1. Read the text about the early history of cinema and its influence on the present-day film industry and do the tasks which follow (1.1 – 1.3).

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