Project work.

1. Use statistics and facts to demonstrate the spread of globalization all over the world. Arrange the information in a grid, a table, a chart.

2. Present some facts of local peculiarities in global business.

3. One frequently-quoted example of globalization is McDonalds. Some people say that McDonald’s restaurants are a bad thing because they mean that everybody will eat the same food; others say that they are a good thing because you are always able to eat something you recognize, know and like. What is your opinion? Examine this problem.

4. Investigate the problem of languages and globalization.

5. Multinational Corporations: Friend or Foe?

You will find information from a variety of sources about Multinational Corporation (MNC) and after you should have enough information to form your own opinion about the following question: Are MNC’s a positive or negative force of globalization?

Multinational Corporations

6. Culture Jamming – What’s It All About?

Plus	Minus	Interesting

UNIT 4. SCIENCE

Lead-in:

Science is exciting. Science is a way of discovering what's in the universe and how those things work today, how they worked in the past, and how they are likely to work in the future. Science isn't everything, but it is important. Science helps us construct knowledge about the natural world – knowledge that can then be harnessed to improve our lives and solve problems.

Pronunciation:

Task 1

Practice the reading of the following words.

technology	[tekˈnolədʒi]	satellite	[ˈsӕtəlait]
physicist	[ˈfɪzɪsɪst]	earthquake	[ˈɜːθkweɪk]
fertilizer	[ˈfɜːtɪˌlaɪzə]	essential	[ɪˈsɛnʃəl]
technique	[tɛkˈniːk]	circumstance	[ˈsɜːkəmstəns]
breakthrough	[ˈbreɪkθru]	psychologist	[saɪˈkɒlədʒɪst]
mysterious	[mɪˈstɪərɪəs]	hypothesize	[haɪˈpɒθɪsaɪz]
spiritual	[ˈspɪrɪtjʊəl]	chemotherapy	[ˌkiːməʊˈθɛrəpɪ]
ancestor	[ˈænsɛstə]	society	[səˈsaɪətɪ]
conscious	[ˈkɒnʃəs]	accurate	[ˈækjərɪt]
artificial	[ˌɑːtɪˈfɪʃəl]

Word study:

Task 2

Make sure you can read these international words correctly and translate them into Russian.

Modern, dramatic, automobile, plastics, antibiotics, infectious, physiology, serious, destruction, determine, reason, spiritual, opposition, reality, observations, oceanography, substance, concentrate, mental, resources, accelerator, resonance, identify, genome, hormone, theorize.

Task 3

Give the missing forms for the words from the text that are in the table below.

Verb	Noun	Adjective
Infect
	achievement
		applicable
pollute
		predicted
	response
forecast
	behavior
differ
		concluded
understand
		explainable
	reason
	benefit
		influencial
continue

Pre-reading:

Task 4

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