新世纪大学英语(第二版)综合教程第4册Unit8讲述.doc

Electronic Teaching Portfolio Book Four Unit Eight: Globalization Part I Get Started Section A Discussion ▇ Work in pairs or groups and discuss the following questions. 1. What do you know about globalization? 2. What has globalization contributed to the world economy? 3. What negative effects has globalization brought about? ▇ Answers for reference: 1. Globalization has been a commonly used term since the late twentieth century. It simply means that the world has become integrated economically, socially, politically and culturally through the advances in technology, transportation and communication. It is the collaboration of countries to boost trade, and to reduce cultural differences. 2. Globalization has contributed to the world’s economy in many beneficial ways. First, the advances in science and technology have allowed businesses to cross over frontiers easily. Consequently, companies tend to become more productive and competitive, thus raising the quality of goods, services and living standards. Second, globalization provides companies with more and larger markets. They can sell more goods and make more money. Meanwhile, they can create more jobs. Last but not least, consumers can also benefit from globalization. As products become cheaper, they can get new goods more quickly and easily. 3. Though globalization has a lot of advantages, it also produces some negative effects. First, globalization results in more unemployment in industrialized countries because many factories have moved to developing countries where they can get cheap labour. Second, it causes some environmental problems. As companies in the developed countries open their factories in developing countries, serious environmental problems have occurred in some developing countries. Last, the natural resources of some of the developing countries are being robbed of by some developed countries in the process of globalization. Section B Quotes ▇ Study the following quotes about globalizati