Match types of humanitarian problems given below with their definitions

Warm-up

C) Complete the sentences below by using one of the idioms above. Some of them can be used more than once.

1. Now that the kids have _______________, I'm thinking about taking a job abroad.

2. My grandfather began to work in the print shop when he was fifteen and learned everything from _______________.

3. We were _______________ when the fire alarm went before we had to give a very badly-prepared presentation.

4. Like most professors, Jason seems ______________. He has no idea how ordinary people cope with life.

5. Parents give their children thousands of pounds to help them ______________ and get a foot on the property ladder.

Brain drain is a movement of highly skilled or professional people from their own country to a country where they can earn more money. Compose a short presentation about brain drain. You can use the website address given below to get more information.

http://www.jury.eu/brain_drain_en.html

Your presentation should include the following points:

• The history of the problem
• Current situation
• Reasons of brain drain;
• Brain drain in different countries
• Brain gain
• Your personal attitude to the problem. Are there any solutions?

fascinating (ideas, field of research); personal (story, viewpoint); reasonable (assumption, risk, agreement, approximation); self-evident (advantage, approach, conclusion; to discard a theory (hypothesis, etc.); to encounter difficulties; to face difficulties; to improve an apparatus (model, technique, etc.); to install equipment, an installation; to obtain results (evi­dence, etc.); to predict an effect (results, etc.); ever-growing population

1. _______________ unfair treatment of people, or violence against them, because they belong to a different race from your own.

2. _______________ condition of not having the means to afford basic human needs such as clean water, nutrition, health care, clothing and shelter.

3. _______________ the use of violence such as bombing, shooting, or kidnapping to obtain political demands such as making a government do something.

4. _______________ a severe reduction in vitamin, nutrient and energy intake.

5. _______________ one of the basic rights which many societies think every person should have to be treated in a fair equal way without cruelty, for example by their government, or the right to vote.

6. ________________ the portion of a population unable to read, write and etc.

7. _______________ the condition of having more people than can live on Earth in comfort, happiness, and health and still leave the planet a fit place for future generations.

1. What are the causes of these

humanitarian problems?

2. Do you think it is possible to solve

these problems?

3. Do you know any other humanitarian

problems?

4. What kind of consequences can these problems

resulted in?

a) Visit the website address given below and listen to the conversation about steps end poverty and answer the questions given there.

http://povertyunlocked.com/2009/09/11/pu-040-walking-with-the-poor-sep-11-2009/

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