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Pre-reading task. 1. What are the key points of globalization?






1. What are the key points of globalization?

2. Have you ever heard about “anti-globalization” movement?

 

Reading

This illuminating article challenges the notion that globalization is creating an increasingly “borderless” world.

What is your opinion on the text?

Defining Globalization

Human societies across the globe have established progressively closer contacts over many centuries, but recently the pace has dramatically increased. Jet airplanes, cheap telephone service, email, computers, huge oceangoing vessels, instant capital flows, all these have made the world more interdependent than ever. Multinational corporations manufacture products in many countries and sell to consumers around the world. Money, technology and raw materials move ever more swiftly across national borders. Along with products and finances, ideas and cultures circulate more freely. As a result, laws, economies, and social movements are forming at the international level. Many politicians, academics, and journalists treat these trends as both inevitable and (on the whole) welcome. But for billions of the world’s people, business-driven globalization means uprooting old ways of life and threatening livelihoods and cultures. The global social justice movement, itself a product of globalization, proposes an alternative path, more responsive to public needs. Intense political disputes will continue over globalization's meaning and its future direction.

Task 1

Match a line in A with a line in B

A 1. human 2. public 3. raw 4. multinational 5. national 6. international   B a) corporation b) borders c) level d) societies d) materials f) needs

 

Task 2

Confirm or reject your attitude to globalization.

Use the following word combinations:

1. As far as I know…

2. To my knowledge…

3. For all I know…

4. Intensive efforts have been devoted to…

5. The efforts continue in the direction of…

6. It appears that the (process) will…

7. To sum up…

 

Task 3

Draw a diagram illustrating how (when, what, why…) globalization influences the world.

 

Task 4

Study the opinions about globalization. Support or reject them.

v Future is not fixed, and globalization enhances both our opportunities and responsibilities.

v Globalization is a “phenomenon which has brought fundamental changes within every society”.

v Globalization is a set of “fences”, both literal and ideological, that separate and contort the globalizing world, thereby worsening an array of international problems. However, in each of these fences, there are “windows”, or individuals with a “natural resistance to enclosure, who challenge globalization’s current form”.

(Statements from “The Tribune” (India); UN Committee on Economics, Social and Cultural Rights; Runaway World – Reith Lectures Revisited).

 

Task 5

Give your own definition of globalization.

 

Task 6

Render the following text into English.






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