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'Quiet quitting' becoming common in workplaces (3rd October, 2022)

The Reading / Listening - Quiet Quitting - Level 6

A new culture of work has been quietly spreading around offices, factories and workplaces worldwide. Workers are increasingly embracing the concept of "quiet quitting". This emerging phenomenon entails workers slowly abandoning doing things that are not part of their contract. The website entrepreneur.com defines quiet quitting as follows: "Quiet quitting is the process of coming to work to achieve the minimum requirements of your role in the time that you're there, then leaving. No offers of overtime, no stepping outside your designated obligations, no going the extra mile. It's the silent withdrawal of extra labor to mitigate what are perceived as unreasonable pressures."

Quiet quitting has increased in popularity since the coronavirus pandemic. People are reassessing their attitudes towards work. They have decided to achieve a more fulfilling work-life balance, and focus on avoiding job burnout. Workers are jettisoning unpaid duties they once voluntarily carried out in their workplaces. They do the bare minimum and leave at five on the dot. Some employers are responding with what is being termed as "quiet firing". This is when bosses try to get employees to leave. They do this by not raising salaries, disregarding employees' ideas and omitting them from meetings. A LinkedIn poll found that 48 per cent of employees in a survey have seen quiet firing in the workplace.

Try the same news story at these easier levels:

Quiet Quitting - Level 4 or Quiet Quitting - Level 5

Sources

https://www.entrepreneur.com/leadership/quiet-quitting-is-taking-over-the-workforce-heres-how-to/434560
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/30/7-signs-of-quiet-firing-to-look-for-at-work.html
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/quiet-firing-quitting-17476036.php

Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Warm-ups

1. QUITTING YOUR JOB: Students walk around the class and talk to other students about quitting your job. Change partners often and share your findings.
2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, talk about these topics or words from the article. What will the article say about them? What can you say about these words and your life?
culture / offices / factories / workplaces / phenomenon / entrepreneur / overtime /
quitting / popularity / pandemic / burnout / the bare minimum / employees / survey
Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently.
3. CONTRACT: Students A strongly believe that workers should only do what is in their contract and no more; Students B strongly believe the opposite. Change partners again and talk about your conversations.
4. THE WORKPLACE: What are your experiences of these workplace things? How could they be better? Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners often and share what you wrote.

Things	Your Experiences	Improvements
Desks
Bosses
Staff room
Overtime
Design
Lunch breaks

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5. FACTORY: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word "factory". Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories.
6. QUITTING JOBS: Rank these with your partner. Put the biggest reasons for quitting a job at the top. Change partners often and share your rankings.

Bad boss
Overtime
Meetings
Co-workers
No promotion
Dangers
Boredom
Salary

Vocabulary

Paragraph 1

1.	embracing	a.	Becoming clear to see and important.
2.	emerging	b.	Being given or assigned to someone to do.
3.	phenomenon	c.	Involve something as a necessary or inevitable part or consequence.
4.	entail	d.	A fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen.
5.	designated	e.	Accepting a belief, theory, or change willingly and enthusiastically.
6.	mitigate	f.	Became aware or conscious of something; come to realize or understand.
7.	perceived	g.	Make something bad and less severe, serious, or painful.

Paragraph 2

8.	reassessing	h.	Paying no attention to; ignoring.
9.	fulfilling	i.	Considering or assessing again, in the light of new or different factors.
10.	burnout	j.	Exactly on time.
11.	jettisoning	k.	Leaving out or excluding.
12.	on the dot	l.	Physical or mental collapse caused by overwork or stress.
13.	disregarding	m.	Abandoning or discarding someone or something that is no longer wanted.
14.	omitting	n.	Making someone satisfied or happy through allowing their character or abilities to develop fully.

Before reading / listening

1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if 1-8 below are true (T) or false (F).

The article says workers are embarrassing about a work concept. T / F
With quiet quitting, workers do only what's in their contract. T / F
Workers who quiet quit often walk a mile to work. T / F
A website said quiet quitting means workers silently withdraw labour. T / F
The coronavirus pandemic increased the popularity of quiet quitting. T / F
People want a more fulfilling work-life balance. T / F
Workers who are quiet quitting leave work at five on the dot. T / F
Most workers have seen examples of quiet firing in the workplace. T / F

2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.

spreading
embracing
phenomenon
designated
perceived
attitudes
fulfilling
jettisoning
responding
omitting

ditching
recognized
replying
views
welcoming
satisfying
happening
nominated
excluding
growing

3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.)

A new culture of work has been
Workers are increasingly
things that are not part
No offers of
perceived as unreasonable
Quiet quitting has
achieve a more fulfilling
They do the bare
leave at five
48 per cent of employees

overtime
pressures
minimum
work-life balance
embracing the concept
on the dot
quietly spreading
in a survey
of their contract
increased in popularity

Gap fill

Put these words into the spaces in the paragraph below.

entails
follows
pressures
spreading
contract
stepping
concept
role

A new culture of work has been quietly (1) _____________________ around offices, factories and workplaces worldwide. Workers are increasingly embracing the (2) _____________________ of "quiet quitting". This emerging phenomenon (3) _____________________ workers slowly abandoning doing things that are not part of their (4) _____________________. The website entrepreneur.com defines quiet quitting as (5) _____________________: "Quiet quitting is the process of coming to work to achieve the minimum requirements of your (6) _____________________ in the time that you're there, then leaving. No offers of overtime, no (7) _____________________ outside your designated obligations, no going the extra mile. It's the silent withdrawal of extra labor to mitigate what are perceived as unreasonable (8) _____________________."

Put these words into the spaces in the paragraph below.

bare
popularity
raising
dot
survey
burnout
termed
balance

Quiet quitting has increased in (9) _____________________ since the coronavirus pandemic. People are reassessing their attitudes towards work. They have decided to achieve a more fulfilling work-life (10) _____________________, and focus on avoiding job (11) _____________________. Workers are jettisoning unpaid duties they once voluntarily carried out in their workplaces. They do the (12) _____________________ minimum and leave at five on the (13) _____________________. Some employers are responding with what is being (14) _____________________ as "quiet firing". This is when bosses try to get employees to leave. They do this by not (15) _____________________ salaries, disregarding employees' ideas and omitting them from meetings. A LinkedIn poll found that 48 per cent of employees in a (16) _____________________ have seen quiet firing in the workplace.

Listening — Guess the answers. Listen to check.

1) workplaces worldwide. Workers are increasingly ______
     a. in bracing the concept
     b. embarking the concept
     c. embarrassing the concept
     d. embracing the concept
2) entails workers slowly abandoning doing things that are not part of ______
     a. their contact
     b. their contract
     c. their contractual
     d. their intact
3) Quiet quitting is the process of coming to work to achieve ______
     a. a minimum requirements
     b. the minimums requirements
     c. the minimum requirements
     d. the minimums requirement
4) stepping outside your designated obligations, no going ______
     a. the extra mile
     b. the extra mail
     c. the extra mule
     d. the extra meal
5) extra labor to mitigate what are perceived ______
     a. as unreasonable pleasures
     b. as unreasonable pressures
     c. as unreasonable pressies
     d. as unreasonable pressings

6) People are reassessing their ______
     a. attitudes towards works
     b. attitudes towards work
     c. attitudes towards workings
     d. attitudes towards worked
7) achieve a more fulfilling work-life balance, and focus on ______
     a. avoid in job burnout
     b. avoiding job burns out
     c. avoiding job burnout
     d. avoiding job burnt out
8) They do the bare minimum and leave at five ______
     a. on the dot
     b. on the dote
     c. on the bot
     d. on the tot
9) Some employers are responding with what is being ______ firing
     a. teamed as quiet
     b. turned as quiet
     c. termed as quiet
     d. tamed as quiet
10) They do this by not raising salaries, disregarding employees' ideas ______
     a. and committing them
     b. and omitting them
     c. and remitting them
     d. and emitting them

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

A new (1) ____________________ has been quietly spreading around offices, factories and workplaces worldwide. Workers are increasingly (2) ____________________ of "quiet quitting". This emerging phenomenon entails workers slowly abandoning doing things that are not part of their contract. The website entrepreneur.com defines quiet quitting as follows: "Quiet quitting is the (3) ____________________ to work to achieve the minimum requirements of your role in the time that you're there, then leaving. No (4) ____________________, no stepping outside your designated obligations, no going (5) ____________________. It's the silent withdrawal of extra labor (6) ____________________ are perceived as unreasonable pressures."

Quiet quitting has increased in popularity since the coronavirus pandemic. People are (7) ____________________ towards work. They have decided to achieve a more fulfilling work-life balance, and (8) ____________________ job burnout. Workers are jettisoning unpaid duties they once voluntarily carried out in their workplaces. They do (9) ____________________ and leave at five (10) ____________________. Some employers are responding with what is being termed as "quiet firing". This is when bosses try to get employees to leave. They do this by not raising salaries, disregarding employees' (11) ____________________ them from meetings. A LinkedIn poll found that 48 per cent of employees (12) ____________________ have seen quiet firing in the workplace.

Comprehension questions

What are workers embracing the concept of?
What do quiet quitting workers strictly follow?
What do quiet quitters not offer to do?
What do quit quitters not go for?
What do people who quietly quit silently withdraw?
What increased the popularity of quiet quitting?
What do quiet quitters want to be more fulfilling?
What time do quiet quitters leave work?
What are employers hitting back with?
What is the name of the company that conducted a workers' poll?

Multiple choice quiz

1) What are workers embracing the concept of?
a) technology
b) promotion
c) quiet quitting
d) designated obligations
2) What do quiet quitting workers strictly follow?
a) their contract
b) the clock
c) their boss
d) promotion opportunities
3) What do quiet quitters not offer to do?
a) overtime
b) talk
c) photocopying
d) help
4) What do quit quitters not go for?
a) lunch
b) the extra mile
c) meetings
d) promotion
5) What do people who quietly quit silently withdraw?
a) their cash
b) their opinions
c) their time
d) extra labour

6) What increased the popularity of quiet quitting?
a) the cost of living crisis
b) the coronavirus pandemic
c) the Internet
d) social media
7) What do quiet quitters want to be more fulfilling?
a) their work-life balance
b) life
c) their duties
d) their commute
8) What time do quiet quitters leave work?
a) 5:01
b) 4:59
c) 5:00
d) 4:57
9) What are employers hitting back with?
a) longer working hours
b) overtime
c) reduced bonuses
d) quiet firing
10) What is the name of the company that conducted a workers' poll?
a) LinkedIn
b) Facebook
c) Amazon
d) Twitter

Role play

Role A – A Bad Boss
You think a bad boss is the biggest reason to quit a job. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them why their reasons aren't as bad. Also, tell the others which is the least worrying of these (and why): overtime, salary or boredom.

Role B – Overtime
You think overtime is the biggest reason to quit a job. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them why their reasons aren't as bad. Also, tell the others which is the least worrying of these (and why): a bad boss, salary or boredom.

Role C – Salary
You think salary is the biggest reason to quit a job. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them why their reasons aren't as bad. Also, tell the others which is the least worrying of these (and why): overtime, a bad boss or boredom.

Role D – Boredom
You think boredom is the biggest reason to quit a job. Tell the others three reasons why. Tell them why their reasons aren't as bad. Also, tell the others which is the least worrying of these (and why): overtime, salary or a bad boss.

After reading / listening

1. WORD SEARCH: Look in your dictionary / computer to find collocates, other meanings, information, synonyms … for the words...

'quit'

________________

________________

________________

________________

________________

________________

________________

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and 'fire'.
________________

________________

________________

________________

________________

________________

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• Share your findings with your partners.

• Make questions using the words you found.

• Ask your partner / group your questions.

2. ARTICLE QUESTIONS: Look back at the article and write down some questions you would like to ask the class about the text.

•Share your questions with other classmates / groups. •Ask your partner / group your questions.

3. GAP FILL: In pairs / groups, compare your answers to this exercise. Check your answers. Talk about the words from the activity. Were they new, interesting, worth learning…?

4. VOCABULARY: Circle any words you do not understand. In groups, pool unknown words and use dictionaries to find their meanings.

5. TEST EACH OTHER: Look at the words below. With your partner, try to recall how they were used in the text:

culture

emerging

contract

achieve

overtime

silent

since

balance

unpaid

bare

bosses

poll

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion - Quiet Quitting

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

What did you think when you read the headline?
What images are in your mind when you hear the word 'quitting'?
What are your experiences of workplaces?
Have you ever quit a job?
What is your idea of a good work culture?
What do you think of the concept of quiet quitting?
Should workers do only the things that are in their contract?
What do you think of working overtime?
Do you ever go the extra mile?
What unreasonable pressures have you felt in the workplace?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

Did you like reading this article? Why/not?
What do you think of when you hear the word 'being fired'?
What do you think about what you read?
Do you agree or disagree with quiet quitting?
What is a good work-life balance for you?
Have you ever experienced job burnout?
Do you ever do the bare minimum?
Do you ever leave at five on the dot?
What do you think of the idea of 'quiet firing'?
What questions would you like to ask a company boss?

Discussion — Write your own questions

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

(a) ________________

(b) ________________

(c) ________________

(d) ________________

(e) ________________

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

(f) ________________

(g) ________________

(h) ________________

(i) ________________

(j) ________________

Language — Cloze (Gap-fill)

A new culture (1) ____ work has been quietly spreading around offices, factories and workplaces worldwide. Workers are increasingly (2) ____ the concept of "quiet quitting". This emerging phenomenon (3) ____ workers slowly abandoning doing things that are not part of their contract. The website entrepreneur.com defines quiet quitting as (4) ____: "Quiet quitting is the process of coming to work to achieve the minimum requirements of your role in the time that you're there, then leaving. No offers of overtime, no (5) ____ outside your designated obligations, no going the extra mile. It's the silent withdrawal of extra labor to mitigate what are perceived (6) ____ unreasonable pressures."

Quiet quitting has increased (7) ____ popularity since the coronavirus pandemic. People are reassessing their attitudes towards work. They have decided to achieve a more fulfilling work-life balance, and focus on avoiding job (8) ____. Workers are jettisoning unpaid duties they once voluntarily carried out in their workplaces. They do the (9) ____ minimum and leave at five on the (10) ____. Some employers are responding with what is being termed as "quiet firing". This is when bosses try to get employees to leave. They do this by not (11) ____ salaries, disregarding employees' ideas and omitting them from meetings. A LinkedIn poll found that 48 per cent of employees in a (12) ____ have seen quiet firing in the workplace.

Which of these words go in the above text?

(a) on (b) of (c) by (d) as
(a) embarking (b) embracing (c) endearing (d) embarrassing
(a) retails (b) entrails (c) contrails (d) entails
(a) followed (b) follows (c) follower (d) following
(a) stopping (b) stepping (c) strapping (d) stripping
(a) has (b) was (c) as (d) ease
(a) on (b) of (c) in (d) by
(a) workout (b) readout (c) burnout (d) washout
(a) bear (b) bard (c) bore (d) bare
(a) dot (b) slash (c) point (d) comma
(a) raising (b) arising (c) rising (d) braising
(a) scurvy (b) servile (c) survey (d) surveillance

Spelling

Paragraph 1

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slowly ndbioagnan doing things
stepping outside your adesengidt obligations
It's the silent wtwidalarh of extra labor
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Paragraph 2

People are rneeissssga their attitudes
focus on avoiding job urtbonu
nejoigsntti unpaid duties
they once lunivtarylo carried out
do the bare mmiuinm
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Put the text back together

(...) requirements of your role in the time that you're there, then leaving. No offers of
(...) Quiet quitting has increased in popularity since the coronavirus pandemic. People are reassessing
(...) as "quiet firing". This is when bosses try to get employees to leave. They do this by
(...) found that 48 per cent of employees in a survey have seen quiet firing in the workplace.
(...) on avoiding job burnout. Workers are jettisoning unpaid duties they once voluntarily carried
(...) not raising salaries, disregarding employees' ideas and omitting them from meetings. A LinkedIn poll
(...) of extra labor to mitigate what are perceived as unreasonable pressures."
(...) phenomenon entails workers slowly abandoning doing things that are not part of their contract. The website entrepreneur.com defines
(...) worldwide. Workers are increasingly embracing the concept of "quiet quitting". This emerging
( 1 ) A new culture of work has been quietly spreading around offices, factories and workplaces
(...) their attitudes towards work. They have decided to achieve a more fulfilling work-life balance, and focus
(...) out in their workplaces. They do the bare minimum and leave at five on the dot. Some employers are responding with what is being termed
(...) quiet quitting as follows: "Quiet quitting is the process of coming to work to achieve the minimum
(...) overtime, no stepping outside your designated obligations, no going the extra mile. It's the silent withdrawal

Put the words in the right order

culture new A of work is quietly spreading .
quitting . concept embracing the quiet Workers are of
things of Doing that aren't part contract . their
the your Achieve role . minimum requirements of
as unreasonable what are Mitigate pressures . perceived
duties out . carried voluntarily once Jettisoning unpaid they
at Do and minimum leave the five . bare
bosses try to leave . When to get employees
ideas meetings . omitting from them employees' Disregarding and
quiet have a in Employees firing . seen survey

Circle the correct word (20 pairs)

A new culture of work has been quietly / quitting spreading around offices, factories and workplaces worldwide. Workers are increasingly embarrassing / embracing the concept of "quiet quitting". This emerging / emergence phenomenon entails / entrails workers slowly abandoning doing things that are not part of their contact / contract. The website entrepreneur.com defines quiet quitting as following / follows: "Quiet quitting is the progress / process of coming to work to achieve the minimum requirements of your role in the time that you're there, then leaving. No offices / offers of overtime, no stepping outside your designated obligations, no going / running the extra mile. It's the silent withdrawal of extra labor to mitigate what are perceived as unreasonable pleasures / pressures."

Quiet quitting has increased in / on popularity since the coronavirus pandemic. People are reassessing their attitudes towards / from work. They have decided to achieve a more fulfilling work-life balance, and focus in / on avoiding job burnout. Workers are jettisoning unpaid duties they once voluntarily carried in / out in their workplaces. They do the bear / bare minimum and leave at five on the dot / slash. Some employers are responding with what is being termed as / was "quiet firing". This is when bosses try to get employees / employers to leave. They do this by not raising salaries, disregarding employees' ideas and emitting / omitting them from meetings. A LinkedIn poll found that 48 per cent of employees in a survey / scurvy have seen quiet firing in the workplace.

Talk about the connection between each pair of words in italics, and why the correct word is correct. Look up the definition of new words.

Insert the vowels (a, e, i, o, u)

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Punctuate the text and add capitals

a new culture of work has been quietly spreading around offices factories and workplaces worldwide workers are increasingly embracing the concept of quiet quitting this emerging phenomenon entails workers slowly abandoning doing things that are not part of their contract the website entrepreneurcom defines quiet quitting as follows quiet quitting is the process of coming to work to achieve the minimum requirements of your role in the time that youre there then leaving no offers of overtime no stepping outside your designated obligations no going the extra mile its the silent withdrawal of extra labor to mitigate what are perceived as unreasonable pressures

quiet quitting has increased in popularity since the coronavirus pandemic people are reassessing their attitudes towards work they have decided to achieve a more fulfilling worklife balance and focus on avoiding job burnout workers are jettisoning unpaid duties they once voluntarily carried out in their workplaces they do the bare minimum and leave at five on the dot some employers are responding with what is being termed as quiet firing this is when bosses try to get employees to leave they do this by not raising salaries disregarding employees ideas and omitting them from meetings a linkedin poll found that 48 per cent of employees in a survey have seen quiet firing in the workplace

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

Anewcultureofworkhasbeenquietlyspreadingaroundoffices,factorie
sandworkplacesworldwide.Workersareincreasinglyembracingtheco
nceptof"quietquitting".Thisemergingphenomenonentailsworkersslo
wlyabandoningdoingthingsthatarenotpartoftheircontract.Thewebsi
teentrepreneur.comdefinesquietquittingasfollows:"Quietquittingist
heprocessofcomingtoworktoachievetheminimumrequirementsofyo
urroleinthetimethatyou'rethere,thenleaving.Nooffersofovertime,no
steppingoutsideyourdesignatedobligations,nogoingtheextramile.It'
sthesilentwithdrawalofextralabortomitigatewhatareperceivedasunr
easonablepressures."Quietquittinghasincreasedinpopularitysinceth
ecoronaviruspandemic.Peoplearereassessingtheirattitudestowards
work.Theyhavedecidedtoachieveamorefulfillingwork-lifebalance,an
dfocusonavoidingjobburnout.Workersarejettisoningunpaiddutiesth
eyoncevoluntarilycarriedoutintheirworkplaces.Theydothebaremini
mumandleaveatfiveonthedot.Someemployersarerespondingwithw
hatisbeingtermedas"quietfiring".Thisiswhenbossestrytogetemploy
eestoleave.Theydothisbynotraisingsalaries,disregardingemployees
'ideasandomittingthemfrommeetings.ALinkedInpollfoundthat48per
centofemployeesinasurveyhaveseenquietfiringintheworkplace.

Free writing

Write about quiet quitting for 10 minutes. Comment on your partner’s paper.

_____________________________________________________________________________

Academic writing

Workers should only do what is in their contract and no more. Discuss.

_____________________________________________________________________________

Homework

1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google's search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word.
2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find out more about this news story. Share what you discover with your partner(s) in the next lesson.
3. QUITTING YOUR JOB: Make a poster about quitting your job. Show your work to your classmates in the next lesson. Did you all have similar things?
4. WORK CONTRACTS: Write a magazine article about workers doing only what is in their contract and no more. Include imaginary interviews with people who are for and against this.
Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Write down any new words and expressions you hear from your partner(s).
5. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? Write a newspaper article about the next stage in this news story. Read what you wrote to your classmates in the next lesson. Give each other feedback on your articles.
6. LETTER: Write a letter to an expert on quitting your job. Ask him/her three questions about quitting jobs. Give him/her three of your opinions on quiet quitting. Read your letter to your partner(s) in your next lesson. Your partner(s) will answer your questions.

A Few Additional Activities for Students

Ask your students what they have read, seen or heard about this news in their own language. Students are likely to / may have have encountered this news in their L1 and therefore bring a background knowledge to the classroom.

Get students to role play different characters from this news story.

Ask students to keep track of this news and revisit it to discuss in your next class.

Ask students to male predictions of how this news might develop in the next few days or weeks, and then revisit and discuss in a future class.

Ask students to write a follow-up story to this news.

Students role play a journalist and someone who witnessed or was a part of this news. Perhaps they could make a video of the interview.

Ask students to keep a news journal in English and add this story to their thoughts.

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Using the central characters in the article
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