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Efficient (работоспособный); trustworthy (достоверный); force (помешать); threat (угроза); irreversible (необратимый); after-effects (последствия); error (заблуждение); storehouse (склад).

 

Final Task

Organize your knowledge on the topic and present a report on one of the following points.

1. What is terrorism? Is there a definition of terrorism? Where does the word “terrorism” come how?

2. Who are cyber terrorists? Why do they use cyber attacks? What can they do?

3. Is terrorism a new phenomenon? Are religiously motivated terrorists less restrained than other terrorists?

 

UNIT 6

GLOBALIZATION: THE ARGUMENT OF OUR TIME

There is the statement that “globalization will give us new ways not only to appreciate other culture more, but to look on our with fresh wonder and surprise”.

· Do you think globalization will have the same type of impact on indigenous cultures?

· Is globalization a two-way street?

 

Text 1

 

Pre-reading task

· What is globalization?

· Who is doing globalization?

· What is being globalized?

· For whom does globalization really work?

 

Reading

Read the text and be ready to discuss it.

"Globalization" -lots of people seem to think it means that the world is turning into some consumer colony of America. Coke, CNN, McDonald's, Levi's, Nikes—if they haven't taken over the world yet, the feeling goes, they will soon. (Odd: Japan is the world's second largest economy, and yet I've never heard of anyone who buys Sony or eats sushi believing that it's part of some plot to turn the world into Japan.)

But regardless of whether you're buying or selling, in the past 20 years much of the world's economy has become increasingly integrated and foreign direct investment has grown three times as fast as total domestic investment. From 1980 to 1995 the value trade worldwide rose dramatically, with the total value of world exports estimated at U.S. $5.1 trillion in 1995, up from U.S. $2 trillion in 1980.

Yet the globalization phenomenon is more than the mere transfer of goods, the fact that, for instance, you can buy French mineral water and Danish beer in the Shanghai airport, or eat Japanese ramen out of your suburban microwave. It's the advent of cheap and ubiquitous information technologies that is dissolving our sense of boundaries. More and more television channels and the Internet have contributed to what expert Daniel Yergin calls a "woven world ".

When we talk about “globality” (a new buzzword ), we’re trying to define a world in which cultures meet and, rather than fight, they blend. As observer Frederick Tipson notes, "More like a thin but sticky coating than a powerful acid, this cosmopolitan culture of communications networks and the information media seems to overlay rather than supplant the cultures it interacts with". Because when cultures receive outside influences, they ignore some and adopt others, and then almost immediately start to transform them.

That's how you end up listening to something called "bhangra pop" in India, to take an example at random: sounds like Jamaican reggae played on traditional Indian instruments, then amplified "As things get more global", commented Norman Klein, a communications professor in Los Angeles, “they're actually becoming more localized”.

 

Task 1

The words in the charts below have all appeared in the text above. Use your dictionary to find the other parts of speech.

verb noun noun adjective
invest   power  
define   tradition  
inform   France  
interact   culture  
transform      

 

Task 2

Match a word in column A with its definition in column B

 

A 1. ubiquitous 2. advent (of) 3. domestic 4. to overlay     B a) happening within a country and not involving any other country b) to cover something thinly c) formal or humorous seeming to be everywhere d) the time when something first begins to be widely used

 

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Task 3

A multi-word verb is a verb + a participle (adverb or preposition).

Put one of the following words into each gap.

into of about to with up

1) In a few weeks, the caterpillar will turn a butterfly.

2) He’ll end in prison if he’s not careful.

3) We were talking our childhoods and realized we were both went to the same school.

4) He was last heard in Michigan in 1935.

5) Vanessa interacts well other children in the class.

6) The volunteers contribute huge amounts of their own time the project.

Task4

Speak on globalization using the diagram below.

 

 

Task 5

Answer the following questions.

1) Is globalization positive or negative or a combination of positive and negative?

2) What are pros (give 5 points) and cons (give 5 points) of globalization for the world’s culture?

3) The effects of globalization on modern culture in “developed” countries and on indigenous cultures?

 

Task 6

Have you noticed any effects of globalization?

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