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34 Our changing world 03 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE EXTRAS In pairs, you have to prepare a presentation for your CLIL geography class speculating about the world’s wealth in 2050. While preparing your presentation, you discuss the following continents:   North America    South America    Europe    Africa    Asia Use the expressions from 2a. Also decide which areas will be the most / the least populous ones. As the divide between the rich and the poor is growing worldwide, an Austro-American businessman would like to donate $1,000,000 to a good cause and has asked for proposals suggesting a suitable charity. Write a proposal including the following information.   State the name of the charity and describe what it does.   Explain in detail why this particular charity should be chosen.   Suggest what the charity would be able to do with the money. Address your proposal to the businessman, divide it into sections and give them headings. Write around 250 words.  Writing guide, Proposal , p. 180. SPEaKIng 5 WRITIng 6 Globalisation In pairs, talk about the countries … 1 you have travelled to. 2 where you know someone personally. 3 where a favourite dish of yours comes from. 4 where the clothes you are wearing come from. What does ‘globalisation’ mean to you? Talk in class. In pairs, discuss what the words in the box have to do with globalisation. a LanguagE FoCuS 7 Globalisation b economy  trade  borders  network  outsourcing corporation  natural resources  colony  import export  technology  communication  migration competition  multiculturalism  inequality ‘McDonaldisation’  child labour  global c Read the extract from the book The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman, an American journalist and author. Choose the correct answers to the questions on the next page. REaDIng 8 There have been three great eras of globalization. The first lasted from 1492 – when Columbus set sail, opening trade between the Old World and the New World, – until around 1800. I would call this era Globalization 1.0. It shrank the world from a size large to a size medium. Globalization 1.0 was about countries and muscles. That is, in Globalization 1.0, the key agent of change, the dynamic force driving the process of global integration, was how much brawn – how much muscle, how much horsepower, wind power, or, later, steam power – your country had and how creatively you could deploy it. In this era, countries and governments (often inspired by religion or imperialism or a combination of both) led the way in breaking down walls and knitting the world together, driving global integration. In Globalization 1.0, the primary questions were: Where does my country fit into global competition and opportunities? How can I go global and collaborate with others through my country?  The second great era, Globalization 2.0, lasted roughly from 1800 to 2000, interrupted by the Great Depression and World Wars I and II. This era shrank the world from a size medium to a size small. In Globalization 2.0, the key agent of change, the dynamic force driving global integration, was multinational companies. These multinationals went global for markets and labor, spearheaded first by the expansion of the Dutch and English joint-stock companies and the Industrial Revolution.  In the first half of this era, global integration was powered by falling transportation costs, thanks Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv