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Globalization

Group 1 : Reasons for globalisation

There are several key factors which have influenced the process of globalisation:

 

 

Group 2: Positive impacts of globalisation

Globalisation is having a dramatic effect - for good or ill - on world economies and on people's lives.

Some of the positive impacts are:

 

 

Group 3: Negative impacts of globalisation

Critics include groups such as environmentalists, anti-poverty campaigners and trade unionists.

Some of the negative impacts include:

Protestors in London

Anti-globalisation campaigners sometimes try to draw people's attention to these points by demonstrating against the World Trade Organisation. The World Trade Organisation is an inter-government organisation that promotes the free flow of trade around the world.

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

Listen until 2m:40 and try to answer the questions without reading the script.

1) What is the clearer thing defining "globalisation"?

2) What does it mean "Today modern communication technology and mass media, radio, TV, phones or the Internet are global standard"

3) Which are the consequences of the development of transports in the global economy?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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