Для студентов, которые имеют не более 3 пропусков.
Get ready to answer the following questions:
1) What is the personal level of human activity?
2) What is the national level of human activity?
3) What social issues are the most on-going nowadays? Why? (10 issues to enumerate + 3 to describe in detail)
4) What tendencies of the contemporary global community can you name? (at least 3 tendencies) Define them. (Ex. Globalization, the era of consumerism, the epoch of great changes, …..)
5) Learn 3 sentences to characterize the contemporary global community:
6) What are the 21 st century skills?
7) What does it mean to be efficient, multitasking, initiative, flexible, and ambitious and have problem-solving, decision-making, teamworking, and time-management skills in the contemporary global community?
8) What is the concept of self-development?
9) What is the notion of inclusion (economic inclusion, political inclusion, environmental inclusion, and social inclusion)?
10) What qualities does a person need to find and get a good (decent / proper / well-paid / prestigious) job?
11) Describe the process of looking for, finding and getting a gob?
12) What are the qualities of any leader?
13) What questions can be asked at a job interview? What do potential employers want to know about their future employees?
14) What is your dream job? Describe it in detail.
15) What should people do to prevent aging and prolong their lifetime?
16) Enumerate some benefits and drawbacks of technological development in modern community.
17) What economic issues are the most on-going nowadays? Why? (10 issues to enumerate + 3 to describe in detail)
18) Give the definition of economics.
19) What does successful development of a country mean? (enumerate 5 parameters)
20) Name 3 types of economic systems and define them.
21) Give details on how economic sectors correlate with the process of social development.
22) What do ordinary people do with money?
23) What political issues are the most on-going nowadays? Why? (5 issues to enumerate + 2 to describe in detail)
24) Give the definition of politics.
25) What environmental issues are the most on-going nowadays? Why? (5 issues to enumerate + 2 to describe in detail)
26) What is biodiversity?
Some ideas for question № 4
· the increasing activity of national governments and international organizations on the global arena;
· international and intercultural integration and interaction in the spheres of information technologies, science, human rights, education, healthcare, environment, financial flows / monetary policy, transportation, tourism, sports, and production;
· setting international standards in political, economic, social, and ecological spheres;
· organizing international conferences, summits, negotiations in all spheres of human activity.
· Bureaucracy
· Rationalization--
· Consumerism--the reduction of all aspects of life to objects of monetary consumption and exchange
· Urbanization--the move of people, cultural centers, and political influence to large cities
· Mass society--the growth of societies united by mass media and widespread dissemination of cultural practices as opposed to local and regional culture particulars
· Industrial society--societies formed around the industrial production and distribution of products
· Homogenization--the social forces that tend toward a uniformity of cultural ideas and products
· Democratization--political systems characterized by free elections, independent judiciaries, rule of law, and respect of human rights
· Mechanization--the transfer of the means of production from human labor to mechanized, advanced technology, from conventional (traditional) skills to computer-aided design
· Digitalization
· Propaganda.
Some ideas for question № 5
Some general sentences:
1) Despite the evolution of human civilization, its improvement, development, and constant changes, there has never been equality, justice, stability, and peace in the global community / there has always been inequality, injustice, instability, illiteracy, and civil wars in the global community.
2) Nowadays, technological advances and their rapid and wide applications are having a significant impact on traditional skills, way of life, and national identity.
3) Today’s world has been divided into developing and industrialized countries as a result of their unbalanced finances which result in a failed health care, weak administration, and unstructured economic systems creating a vicious cycle, which can continue indefinitely unless wealthier nations show interest in minimizing the worldwide economic differences, as well as assisting less fortunate countries.
4) In the twenty first century the world has become integrated economically, socially, politically, and culturally through the advances of technology, transportation, and communication.
5) Despite various advances, achievements and innovations in all spheres of human activity, people in most countries are still struggling with burocracy, crimes, information pressure, pollution, and many other problematic issues.
6) In the epoch of great changes and advances, the contemporary global community still faces a number of challenges in various spheres of human activity.
7) People nowadays live in the era of …
8) Changes in domestic demographics, increasing affluence of people, and advances in industrialization, manufacturing, transportation, and communication contributed to the change of the cultural / social / economic paradigm.
9) The civilization, that has undergone changes and improvements in all spheres of human activity, is now trying to overcome a new wave of social, cultural, political, economic, and environmental crises (problems).
10) The present epoch is the time, when everything, on the one hand, is changing, developing, improving, yet, on the other hand, is subjected to different forms of problems and pressure.