A World Of Opportunities: Capter 5 Tasks

Spring Term Week 13 B Wednesday

 

Discussion p.221-222

2b+ & c+

Today in class, we had to do some tasks, in the first task we had to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of having a large number of foreign workers in a country

b) Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of having a large number of foreign workers in a country

Advantage: They can contribute to the development of a country

They can help bring new culture

Disadvantage: The country can be overpopulated

Many unemployed

2c+ Discuss what vision you see of the future when it comes to global education and work possibilities

Global education will rise more than it is now people will travel more often than they are doing now, culture will be exchange and people will learn much. As for the work possibilities, I think it will decrease, because of the population will be huge. However, it is actually both ways, for all I know maybe the work possibilities may be better in the future

5 Taking Action

Contact a local company and ask them if they need to use English in their line of businsess. If so, for what purposes? Report back what you learn.

I and some of my classmates contact The Lid Jarnindustri in Dalen, we asked them if they used English in their line of business. They replayed very fast and they told us they used English in their business line to communicate with their other companies and co-workers.   

Discussion p.234

3b-d+

3b)The global economy has changed relationships inside the Metha family. Explain why the father is confused and suspicious, the daughter angry and the mother worried.

The global economy has changed relationships inside the Mehta family; the father is confused and surprised over how much things has changed. Her father frowned over his spectacles, grappling ineptly with the fundamentals of modern telecoms. Her mother is worried that she would not be a “good” housewife. The daughter is angry because her parents are not supportive of what she is doing.

C+) The internet has destroyed distance". Discuss this statement and what it will mean for working life in the future.

 “The internet has destroyed distance”. This statement clearly means, for example people all over they can do business without even meeting. This can destroy the way people should actually cooperate, to work or do business together is much better to do it in person.

D+) Priti has a job that has been outsourced from Australia to India. Who wins and who loses from outsourcing?

Priti and the company she works for wins, because they got jobs. Those who loses are the ones who do not have jobs and those who for example lives in Australia, who do not have that kind of jobs.

3b Alternative Lifestyles

Task 3b p.159

John wants to change the world through the force of example, while Jenny wants to change it through protest. Which of these methods do you think is most effective, and why?

I think both of the methods are effective because both John and Jenny’s opinion are similar.

Jenny wants to use protesting and change politics, so the people above them are afraid. They want to protest and change the system and not just for one person, but also for everyone around the globe. Jenny thinks is smarter to live life simply by using less of things that is not good for the globe.

And John thinks is better to work with nature than against it. He also thinks people could live life simple.

Sources: http://access-internationalvg2.cappelendamm.no/c951208/sammendrag/vis.html?tid=951216 (14.01.2015) ( p.159 )Access

Media in Motion

Task 2

Introduction: Media in Motion

We listened to a text in our English book Access p.40-43

The text was all about the international English and the “media”.  The most important media development of the decades has been the rise of the Internet.

In 1989, the Internet became an open system to anyone with a computer. By 1995 there were about 15 million person online and after that, the Internet has been very popular.

We also heard that the number of Internet users who speak English is roughly the same as the number who speak Chinese.

In the future the English language will be used to communicate with one another, because people are learning English every day and English is mostly used on media.

How people use the social media

On Friday my English class had a task about the social media, the tasks  were all about asking different people in the street how they use social media. We interviewed both old and young people.

Here are the questions we asked:

·         How often do you use Facebook? 

·         Do you have Snapchat or Instagram?

·         Do you think teenagers use the Internet too much? 

·         Do you know what an app is?

·         What kind of apps do you know?

·         How do you think the social media will be in 10 years?

·         How much time do you use on the Internet?

·         Do you have your phone with you all the time?

After interviewing about 5-6 people, the conclusion became: the older people get the less time they use on the Internet and social media.  And for the younger ones, the majority use the social media through their daily life.