- •Unit 1. Employment Issues
- •Vocabulary and Listening
- •Vocabulary and Reading
- •Active Participation of Women in the Labour Force
- •Unit 2. Public Relations
- •Vocabulary and Reading
- •Unit 3. Spending on Education
- •Vocabulary and Listening
- •Investing in Brains
- •University fees
- •Unit 4. Corporate Morals. The Psychology of Power
- •Only the little people pay taxes...
- •Vocabulary
- •Unit 5. A Competitive Spirit in Business
- •Unit 6. The World Economy. New Dangers
- •Supply chains in China
- •Unit 7. Innovations
- •Opting for the quiet life
- •Vocabulary and Reading
- •Innovations in cell phones
- •Unit 8. Joint Bosses. The Trouble With Tandem
- •Vocabulary and Listening
- •Vocabulary
- •Unit 9. Storing and Managing Economic Information
- •Vocabulary and Reading
- •Unit 10. Food Production and Consumption
- •Vocabulary and Reading
- •Genetically modified food Attack of the really quite likeable tomatoes
- •More than strange fruits
- •Unit 11. Economy and Environment. Climate Change
- •Vocabulary and Listening
- •For peat’s sake, stop
- •Spin, science and climate change
- •Insuring against catastrophe
- •Unit 12. Intellectual Property Rights and Music Piracy
- •Vocabulary and Reading
- •How to sink pirates
- •Appendix 1. Role Plays
- •1. Read the situation:
- •2. Choose your role:
- •3. Study your role and get ready to present it:
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- •1. Read the situation:
- •2. Choose your role:
- •3. Study your role and get ready to present it:
- •Unit 1. Employment Issues.
- •Unit 2. Public Relations
- •Unit 3. Spending on Education. Investing in Brain
- •University fees
- •Unit 4. Corporate Morals. The psychology of Power
- •Corporate crime is on the rise The rot spreads
- •Unit 5. A Competitive Spirit in Business Spit and polish
- •Unit 6. World Economy. New Dangers
- •Supply chains in China
- •Unit 7. Innovations
- •Unit 8. Joint Bosses. The Trouble With Tnadem
- •Unit 9. Storing and Managing Economic Information The data deluge
- •Unit 10. Food Production and Consumption
- •A hill of beans
- •Unit 11. Economy and Environment. Climate Change For peat’s sake, stop
- •Unit 12. Intellectual Property Rights and Music Piracy Singing a different tune
- •Bibliography
- •Contents
- •Вопросы мировой экономики/world economy issues
- •400131, Волгоград, просп. Им. В. И. Ленина, 28.
- •400131 Волгоград, ул. Советская, 35.
1. Read the situation:
A company producing GMF has applied to the government for a license to grow its products in your country. You have to make a decision on whether to grant the license.
2. Choose your role:
Role 1. The Minister of Agriculture.
Roles 2, 3. The representatives of the company.
Role 4. The farmer.
Role 5. The Minister of Health.
Role 6. The Government representative.
3. Study your role and get ready to present it:
Role 1. You are the Minister of Agriculture. You are DOUBTFUL about granting the license. Give the floor to the representatives of the company (Roles 2, 3), the farmer (Role 4), the Minister of Health (Role 5) and the Government representatives (Roles 6, 7). Be ready to make a decision. The following ideas can help:
Genetically-modified foods
have the potential to solve many of the world's problems;
help protect and preserve the environment.
Many people feel that genetic engineering is dangerous for human health.
Roles 2, 3. You are the representatives of the company. You are keen to be granted this license. You need to put forward the advantages of genetically modified products:
pest resistance (Crop losses from insect pests can be shocking. Farmers typically use many tons of chemical pesticides annually. Consumers do not wish to eat food that has been treated with pesticides because of potential health hazards, and run-off of agricultural wastes from excessive use of pesticides and fertilizers can poison the water supply and cause harm to the environment. Growing GM foods can help eliminate the application of chemical pesticides and reduce the cost of bringing a crop to market);
herbicide tolerance (For some crops, it is not cost-effective to remove weeds by physical means, so farmers will often spray large quantities of different herbicides (weed-killer) to destroy weeds, a time-consuming and expensive process, that requires care so that the herbicide doesn't harm the crop plant or the environment. Crop plants genetically-engineered to be resistant to one very powerful herbicide could help prevent environmental damage by reducing the amount of herbicides needed.);
Disease resistance (There are many viruse,and bacteria that cause plant diseases. Plant biologists are working to create plants with genetically-engineered resistance to these diseases).
Cold tolerance (Unexpected frost can destroy sensitive seedlings. An antifreeze gene from cold water fish has been introduced into plants such as tobacco and potato. With this antifreeze gene, these plants are able to tolerate cold temperatures that normally would kill unmodified seedlings);
Drought tolerance/salinity tolerance (As the world population grows and more land is utilized for housing instead of food production, farmers will need to grow crops in locations previously unsuited for plant cultivation. Creating plants that can withstand long periods of drought or high salt content in soil and groundwater will help people to grow crops in formerly inhospitable places).
Role 4. You are the farmer. You are keen for the experiment to go ahead, but you want to know of any potential risks. Also, you are concerned about local reaction.
Role 5. You are the Minister of Health. You are AGAINST granting the license. Your reasons:
a risk of allergies;
unknown long-term effects on human health.
Role 6. You are the Government representative. You are FOR granting the license. Your reasons:
If the Minister agrees to grant the license, the company will bring millions of dollars of investments into the country, which in turn will mean many new jobs.
If the Minister doesn’t give the license the company will take its business to another country, and you will lose the investment, jobs, and knowledge in a new and potentially very lucrative technology.
Role 7. You are the Government representative. You are AGAINST granting the license. Your reasons:
You agree with the Minister of Health (Role 5) about the potential risks for human health.
Public opinion is currently anti GMF and granting the license will be very unpopular with many people.
Unit 11. Economy and Environment. Climate Change
Role play “Chemical Pollution” Exercise 12, page 91.