10. Globalization

Unit 3.    OUR WORLD

Lesson 1. GLOBALIZATION

"GLOBALIZATION refers to the international exchange of people, products, services, money, technology and culture. In a globalized society, the entire world functions as one geographical space,

With modern advances in transport, people and products can travel across the world in just a few hours. And in the communication media, we van see live broadcasts and watch the news around the world, as it happens". 

(Citizenship Studies, Oxford Education)

Let's listen to this video to complete the text and comment the effects of globalization in different aspects of life.

• Content:What is Globalization ?
• Content language: Advantages and disadvantages of globalization in our society: economic, social, political, cultural and environmental effects.
• Communication: English language: 
• should + infinitive
• Culture: 
• Northen vs southern countries. Earth Summits.
• Cognition: 
• Comprehension: Give examples, recognize, explain, summarize, identify, rewrite, infer

• Listening comprehension activity: Fill in the gaps to complete the transcription of the video.
• Reading comprehension.
• Class discussion.

8- The rights of children.

Unit 2.    HUMAN RIGHTS

Lesson 2. INTOLERANCE

The rights of children.

Children are vulnerable because they are not physically  or mentally mature. For this reason they need special care and protection. During the 20th century, there were important developments in the defense of children's rights:

• The Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1924.
• The creation of UNICEF, in 1946.
• The Declaration of the Rights of the Child, in 1959.
• The Convention of the Rights of the Child, in 1989.
• The World Summit for Children, in 1990.

Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. She is known mainly for human rights advocacy for education and for women in her native Swat Valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Yousafzai's advocacy has since grown into an international movement.

HOPE, CHANGE, PRIVILEGE, RIGHT, PEACE, PROSPERITY, EDUCATION, LEARNING, SAFETY, COMMITMENT, FUTURE, INVESTMENT

TERRORISM, DISPLACEMENT, DENIAL OF EDUCATION, TRAGEDIES, BEING KILLED, BEING REJECTED, BEING NEGLECTED, BEING HOMELESS, REFUGEE, 

ABDUCTED CHILDREN

• Oral comprehension activity.

9. If this isn't racism, what is?

Unit 2.    HUMAN RIGHTS

Lesson 2. INTOLERANCE

The majority of us reject racist activities and condemn all kind of acts in which people is victim of mistreatment, insults and rejection.  Many times racist behaviour is obvious and evident to everyone but it is also quite often to be difficult to detect it. People can express their prejudices against other race or ethnic groups in many subtle ways:
In a restaurant, people may refuse to share a table with a gipsy family; people act as xenophobes when think immigrants are displacing local population in temporary jobs...

Let's watch this video to be aware of some of the real problems that victims of racism have to face in their daily life:

Prejudice and discrimination

• Content: Discrimination based on racism.
• Content language: victim of discrimination, behaviour, attitude, unfair treatment, to condemn, to refuse, to reject, positive discrimination

• Communication: English language: 

• to be victim of ...
• to discriminate against somebody
• discrimination based on...
• to feel disadvantaged in relation to...
• to be (more/less) likely to +inf.

• Culture: Knowing about real cases of discrimination.

• Cognition: 
• Comprehension: explain, distinguish, give examples, infer, review, identify.

Complete the text by watching the video.