21st century - Lifestyle

PRACTICE READING

In this article, called “Family suicides on rise in Taiwan”, said us that the suicide notes and police reports we study, most of the parents suffered some kind of financial pressure, including business failures, job losses and large debts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7714169.stm


In this link you read 2 lectures and then you have to answer multiple choose questions. As a consequence you can practice you Reading comprehension.
http://www.pearsonlongman.com/ae/marketing/sfesl/tests/grade6.html

PRACTICE LISTENING

On this page we can see a lot of Podcast and Listening Downloads , I choose alcohol abuse. It is very interesting because they talk about the difference between binge drinking and just plain old getting drunk. Binge drinking is a period of time when a person would continue to drink alcohol to such an extent that he or she would abandon their usual activities such as work or, in the case of younger drinkers classes. Finally they mention that the culture of drinking in the UK is very different from other countries like France, Spain or Italy. In most mainland European countries children grow up seeing alcohol consumed slowly the odd beer on a sunny afternoon. In the UK, go out to the pubs and up until recently the pubs all closed at eleven on the dot. So you drink as fast as you can so that by the time eleven comes around you aren’t left feeling like another drink.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/professionals-podcast-english-listening-downloads-homepage.htm

This page has some listening exercise, we can listening conversation between Alice and Jack and the exercise give choices for answer. It’s important to focus on important information and take notes for answer each question.
http://esl.about.com/od/advancedlistenin1/Listening_Skills_for_Advanced_Level_English_Learners.htm

This page have a lot of listening practice with some exercises of multiple choices and open questions to answer, it’s so useful and gives answers and scripts for each answers.

http://www.stuff.co.uk/ielts/ielts.htm

ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY - GLOBALIZATION

Globalization refers to a set of processes that increase and make the parts of the world interdependently integrated. It is a historical process, the result of human innovation and technological progress. It refers to increasing integration of economies around the world, particularly through trade and financial flows. Many people view globalization in different ways. Some view it as a process that is beneficial a key to future world economic development and also inevitable and irreversible.

Some view it with hostility, even fear, believing that it increases inequality within and between nations, threatens employment and living standards. Globalization offers extensive opportunities for truly worldwide development but it is not progressing evenly. Some countries are becoming integrated into the global economy more quickly than others. Globalization can be looked at from five different aspects; economically, technologically, politically, culturally and environmentally.

Economically, globalization has been greatly encouraged since the Second World War, with the introduction of free trade agreements additionally; regional trade agreements have also been developed. On the other hand, technologically, the Information technology revolution has resulted in massive improvements in communication, through faxes, email, and the internet. These improvements have resulted in the world becoming a smaller place as world-wide interaction is both quick and easy.

Some view globalization as being inevitable and key to our economic future. It has the potential of making societies richer through trade, and creates knowledge and understanding to people around the world. On the other side, people believe it increases inequality within and between nations. I believe that globalization will only advance our world and make us more unified.

To sum up, globalization effects just about everything and everyone. Nowadays, globalization has impacted technology and helped our community become more modern with internet practice and communications. An increase in foreign residents has become the norm in our local area, and local businesses have begin to outsource jobs to remain competitive.