Meta to lay off 11,000 employees:

parent company

layoff

tech giant

spate

interest rates

looming recession

hire

widespread

prior year

market downturn

headwinds

play out → happen

helm

• Go through the words from the vocabulary list. Which words do you know?
• Read the the text. (Focus on improving the student’s reading fluency, not comprehention)
• look for the words from the vocabulary list in the text. Write down the sentence in which they appear in the text.

1. Would you like to work for a tech giant such as Meta?
2. What kind of “office perks” do they often offer?
3. What are your thought on Mark Zuckerberg’s decition to layoff a lot emplyees?