Unit 1. Defining Culture

Module 4. Life and culture

Write a post in your blog where you reveal the necessity of international communication and argue with an anonymous anti-globalist who has made an aggressive comment about your resent message.

Answer the questions. Use the ideas from the previous text.

Practice

1) Has globalization affected

• your country;
• your city;
• your college life;
• your family life;
• you personally? How then?

2) Think about changes in recent years in

· education;

· job opportunities;

· culture;

· fashion;

· ideas.

3) Do you think your country needs to be protected from the effects of globalization?

4) Would you support globalists or anti-globalists? Give your reason.

Writing strategies

1. Study the information below.

As we live in an information society people tend to spend a lot of time on virtual communication where they express their views, opinions, and attitudes by posting them in their blogs.

A blog (also called a weblog) is a website consisting of entries (also called posts) appearing in reverse chronological order with the most recent entry appearing first (similar in format to a daily journal). Blogs typically include features such as comments and links to increase user interactivity.

As the Internet has become more social, blogs have gained in popularity. Today, there are over 100 million blogs with more entering the blogosphere everyday. Blogs have become more than online diaries. In fact, blogging has become an important part of the online and offline worlds with popular bloggers impacting the worlds of politics, business and society with their words.

The best way to post involves breaking out the main points of your message and creating a list of everything you want to include, in the order you will address it. By creating a traditional outline, it helps you work out the flow of your post and organizes thoughts in a logical manner.

Project work

Make up a PowerPoint presentation about globalization in modern world. Dwell upon the following ideas:

• history
• conception
• advantages and disadvantages

· opportunities and threats.

Lead-in.

Ø What do you think about the importance of learning about other cultures in today’s multicultural Global Village?

Ø What do you think Global Village is?

Ø What is culture? Can you give any definitions on the spot?

Ø What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word “CULTURE”? Music? Art? Literature? Cultural patterns of behavior?

Ø Are beliefs and values shared by people belonging to one and the same cultural community? Anything else?

Ø What does this word mean personally to you?

Reading and vocabulary

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