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192 activities Unit 4, exercise 11 Unit 3, exercise 23 Student A You are the successful owner of a large farm and use modern methods of intensive farming. You think developments to food production are beneficial to everyone. Prepare some ideas to support your point of view. Think about: the transport of food  pesticides and artificial fertilisers  hygiene multinationals  intensive farming  processed and packaged food GM foods  developing new crops and types of food Talk about your ideas with Student B. Unit 3, exercise 36a Student B You work for a well-known NGO and take part in a conference about globalisation. After a workshop session you have a discussion with an employee of a Swiss multinational company. You are a critic of globalisation. Prepare some ideas to support your point of view. Think about, for example: multinational companies ‘ruling’ the world loss of local cultures and traditions exploitation of Third-World countries  spread of diseases loss of jobs  environmental issues Student B Men and women do different jobs for different pay In America in the early 1970s more than half of all families with children consisted of a breadwinner husband, a stay-at-home wife and two or more kids; now only a fifth do. Instead there are lots of single-parent households , and even if couples live together, they no longer necessarily marry. If they do, the wives are likely to go out to work, whether or not they have children, and take only a short break for maternity. Life is too expensive for most families to be able to manage on one pay cheque. In most rich countries the dominant model now is the two- earner family , with both parents working full-time.  Men are still more likely than women to be in paid work. Across the OECD countries some 83% of men of working age are in the labour market, compared with 64% of women. But the share of women at work is still rising. In the Nordic countries the gap between men and women has almost gone, and in most of the big rich countries it is only ten Source: OECD It’s a woman thing Part-time employment*, 2010, % *People who usually work less than 30 hours a week in their main job United States Germany Netherlands Britain Japan OECD average Sweden Finland 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 Nur zu Prüfzw cken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv