Дополнительные задания к блоку 16

Дополнительные задания к блоку 15

1. Find answers to the following logically arranged questions and use them to make up a story and then retell it.

1. Globalization is a defining characteristic of the modern world, isn’t it?

2. What is globalization? What is it driven by?

3. What’s the central feature of globalization?

4. What do permeable boundaries lead to?

5. What underlies globalization?

6. How do globalization processes proceed?

7. What is globalization fuelled by? Enumerate the processes that have fueled it.

8. What might slow down the process of globalization?

9. Does globalization pose challenges to less developed countries?

10. What kind of implications does globalization have?

 

2. Do you agree? Give your grounds for it?

1. Economic globalization destroys the idea of economic sovereignty.

2. Globalization is biased in favour of cooperation and harmony.

3. Economic globalization far outstrips the political globalization.

4. Globalization will lead to a universal acceptance of liberal democratic principles and structures.

5. The flow of ideas(information) is increasingly independent of other forms of globalization.

 

Дополнительные задания к блоку 16

1.   Explain the difference between” international – supranational – global”.

2. Agree or disagree. Provide arguments in favour of your point of view.

1. American popular culture has a global reach.

2. Consumers have gained massively from global outsourcing.

3. States may see themselves better able to cope with global forces if they form regional groupings.

4. The reduced autonomy of states in the face of globalized economic, technological and social trends has encouraged people to seek psychological security in their “roots”.

5. In an increasingly globalized world, ethnicity may replace nationality as the principal source of social integration.

6. Globalization entails homogenization of culture, although globalization is by no means an entirely “top-down” process.

7. Transnational religious movements, such as Islamic fundamentalism, challenge the global system itself.

8. The intermingling of cultures has been made possible by reduced costs of travel and by modern communications technology.

9. The influence of American films has paved the way for the Americanization of culture and this, in turn, has created a market for American exports worldwide.

10. Technology has created a sense of one world, a global community.

11. The global reach of American culture helps to enhance America’s soft power.

12.The nation state is the most important actor on the stage of global politics but it is not the only important actor.

 

3. Look through the exercises again and pick up sentences illustrating the cultural and political aspects of globalization. Use them to speak about cultural and political aspects of  globalization.

Задания к тексту “How globalized is economic life”

 

I. Study the meanings of the prefix “trans-”.In what meaning is it used in the following words? Translate them in word combinations from the text.

transborder, transworld, transnational

II. Translate the words “advance” and “advanced” using the context of the article.

 

III. The word “globalization” is widely used in Russian as “глобализация”. How about the other derivatives? Present the Russian counterparts of the following word combinations:

 

global system, global economy, global character, global interconnectedness, global division of labour, global reach, global sourcing, global financial system, global market forces, global currency markets, global capitalism, ‘globalizing’ economy, globalized economy, globalized system of production, globally mobile, hyperglobalists.

 

IV. Is the word ‘economy’ used in the same meaning in the following combinations in the sentence?

Have national economies effectively been absorbed into a single global system, or has nothing really changed: the world economy remains a collection of interlinked national economies?

 

V. What is the meaning of the words ‘these’, ‘this’, “ones” in the following sentences? Translate them into Russian.

1. The most important of these include the following.

2. … and most of this takes place within particular regions…

3…. ones with cheap but relatively highly skilled sources of labour…

4. … while peripheral ones remain outside or at its margins.

5. This allowed money and capital to flow both within and between national economies with much greater ease

 

VI. Translate the following passage into Russian.

...hyperglobalists present the image of a ‘borderless’ global economy, in which the tendency for economic interaction to have a transborder or transworld character is irresistible, facilitated, even dictated, by advances in information and communication technologies (which are not now going to be disinvented).

2. This is not to say that there is no such thing as the global economy, but only that this image captures only part of a much more complex and differentiated reality.

3. … punctuated briefly by a revival of protectionism in the 1970s.

4. Crucially, they also have the advantage of being able to locate and relocate production in states or areas that are favourable to efficiency and profitability…

5. Not only do most TNCs maintain strong links to their country of origin, and therefore only appear to be ‘transnational’, but moreover production continues overwhelmingly to be concentrated in the developed world.

6. …which has seen economic power concentrated in an economic ‘core’ at the expense of the ‘periphery’.

7. These disparities also, to some extent, reflect differing levels of integration within the global economy, core areas or states being more fully integrated into the global economy, and thus reaping its benefits, while peripheral ones remain outside or at its margins.

8. Then, in the 1990s, the application of new information and communication technologies to financial markets gave financial transactions a genuinely supraterritorial character, enabling transborder transactions to be conducted literally at ‘the speed of thought’.

9. Finally, it is important to remember that the conventional debate about the extent to which economic life has been globalized is conducted within narrow parameters, established by what is treated as productive labour and who are considered to be economically active.

 

VII. Give your explanation of the following terms:

 hyperglobalists,‘tiger’ economies, intra-firm trade, ‘shallow’ integration, feminist economists, global sourcing, transworld money.

 

VIII. Translate and give definitions of the business terms:

corporation tax, country of origin, division of labour, labour market, deregulated financial markets, floating exchange rates, money and capital flow, transworld money, currency market, productive labour, ‘invisible’ economy, price competition

 

IX. What parts does the article fall into?

What’s the talking point of the introduction?

What does the main body deal with? How are these points made clear in the text?

Is the concluding paragraph in keeping with the introduction and the body? What is its main idea?

 

X. Single out the information from the text according to the flowchart and retell it:

 

Introduction: 2 approaches to economic globalization			International trade				transnational  production
	Global division of labour				Globalized financial system

 

Conclusion: narrow parameter of treating

 economic globalization

 

XI. Do you agree that “economic globalization is a game of winners and losers”? Support you point of view with arguments.

 

XII. What’s your opinion: Is economic globalization a myth or a reality? Give arguments in favour of your point of view.

 

XIII. Present the topic “Is economic globalization a myth or a reality?” based on the flowchart. Use the enumeration of the aspects of economic globalization (Unit 16) as an introduction to the topic.

 

XIV. Vocabulary checkup.

Suggest the Russian counterparts for the following:

to adopt a position, to make a shift, a misleading choice, this is not to say that, global interconnectedness, global division of labour, globalized financial system, an increase in international trade, on average, to heighten price competition, intra-firm trade, an indication of, with the exception of, it is questionable, to account for, to take advantage of, global sourcing, raw materials, highly skilled sources of labor, a corporation tax, stop short of, globalized system of production, to maintain  links to, the country of origin, an evidence of, to fall short of, to be globally mobile, an economic ‘core’,  at the expense of, to some extent, to reap benefits, a driving force, the foundation stone of, to bring into existence, a deregulated financial market, to follow the move to, a floating exchange rate, information and communication technologies, to conduct transactions, transworld money, global market forces, annual GDP, global currency markets, global capitalism, a matter of considerable debate, to conduct a debate, to establish narrow parameters, productive labour, retreat of socialism, to draw attention to, ‘invisible’ economy, to rely on, unpaid labour, small-scale farming, to be responsible for, a substantial proportion of, a home garden, total output, household income, domestic food supplies, market-based development strategies, to undermine the economy.

 

 

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