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UNIT 1: How does language affect who we are?
1 What ideas or concepts are difficult to communicate without language? Provide examples and reasons
2 How has technology affected how you communicate with others? Describe both negative and positive
3 What difficulties might an English speaker visiting your home country have while trying to communicate?
4 Do people who know two languages have different thoughts in each language or just different words for them?
5 What are other non-standard forms of communication?
6 Can you think of any other ways you speak differently when talking to adults in English?
7 Do you think you focus more on "the big picture" and general ideas or details? Would you say that you are more "right-brained" or "left-brained, according to the ideas in the Listening?
8 Which effect of a stroke would upset you more, the loss of the ability to speak or the loss of your past memories? Why?
UNIT 2: Where can work, education, and fun overlap?
1 What are some of the factors that you consider when planning a vacation?2 Can you describe a time when you felt work or school was fun?
3 What aspects of this man's job would you consider work or educational? What aspects are fun?
4 Linda Stuart says that one of the benefits of voluntourism is that it's an "eye-opening experience" and it helps people see that it's "not us versus them, but it's us all together." What does she mean by that? Do you agree?
5 In what ways has this interview been successful or unsuccessful in motivating you to take a volunteer vacation?
6 Think of a place in the world that could benefit from the contributions of volunteer tourists What kind of work could people do there? How could it be fun?
7 What are some reasons people would be interested in voluntourism?8 What types of people take these trips?
9 What kinds of projects do voluntourists work on?
10 What countries do GCN and Global Volunteers operate in?
11 In what ways are Global Citizens Network and Global Volunteers similar and in what ways are they both different from the science and nature programs at Cambridge University and the Sedgwick Reserve?
12 Which speakers were most persuasive in making you want to participate in the programs they were talking about? How did they persuade you?
UNIT 3: How can the eyes deceive the mind?
Trang 21 Have your eyes ever "played tricks" on you, causing you to see something that wasn't there or not see something that was? Explain what you saw.
2 Do you like to go to movies that have sophisticated visual effects? Do you just enjoy the illusions, or do you want to figure out how the visual effects were created?
3 In what ways are the examples of animal deception similar to those that people use? In what ways are they different?
4 Listening 1 mainly describes how animals use camouflage to hide from predators In what ways do you think predators can use camouflage to their advantage?5 In what ways can people camouflage themselves to blend in with their
environment (for example, a group of other people)? What are some advantages tolooking like other people? What are some disadvantages?
6 For what reasons might a person want to stand out in his or her environment, or look different from other people?
UNIT 4: What does it mean to be a global citizen?
1 What does it mean to be a global citizen?
2 Which of these concerns get the most attention: short-term disasters, such as hurricane relief, or long-term problems, such as world hunger? Why?
3 Would you be willing to pay extra for Fair Trade products? Why or why not? How much more would you pay (than you do now) for a cup of coffee? A chocolate bar? A cotton T-shirt?
4 Zwerdling says that "consumers have to help, too." In what ways can consumers help in the development of the Fair Trade network?
5 Who should determine the prices of luxury commodities (such as coffee or chocolate)? Who should determine the prices of necessities (such as vegetables)? What might happen if farmers were allowed to charge as much as they wanted for their products?
6 What do you think are the most serious problems caused by businesses and corporations that the Global Compact should force them to address?
7 Do you think corporations that follow the Global Compact are motivated more by the desire for profits, the desire to be better global citizens, or something else?8 Do you think the support of famous celebrities makes a real difference in
gathering help in a national or international crisis?
9 Who should pay for global aid following a natural disaster, such as a tsunami or the destruction following an oil spill?