English Unlimited HAK/HUM 4/5, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM (mit Handelskorrespondenz)

21 Global issues 02 LANGUAGE SKILLS EXPLORE EXTRAS Sentences 1–3 are about differences and changes. Which words in the box could replace the highlighted words? Do they change the meaning? considerably  dramatic  easily  enormous  far far and away  huge  marginally  massive significant  significantly 1 There was a vast increase in wealth between 1960 and 1990. 2 The countries of Asia have by far the largest populations. 3 Canada is slightly bigger than the USA, but as the map shows, the USA has a much larger population. Write one or two more sentences based on the maps, like those in 2a. Read out your sentences to a partner. Does he / she agree? Look at the maps again. 1 Imagine a map showing population in 2050. How would it be different? What countries might be bigger or smaller? 2 Imagine a map showing wealth in the year 1500. How would it look? Think about: a LANguAgE FOCuS 2 Differences and changes b c a SPEAKINg 3 Listen to two people talking about the map on p. 199. What is the main point each speaker makes? Are any the same as your ideas? The speakers used various expressions to talk about what the map means. What did they say? Complete the sentences with expressions from the box. There are two extra expressions you should not use. as the maps show  doesn’t necessarily mean  indicate about  is apparent  it says a lot about means that  pretty much  reveal much about  the significance of  significant differences  you can see Speaker A 1 One thing that     from these maps is how little has actually changed. 2 I mean the balance between rich and poor countries has     stayed the same. 3 And     if you look at Africa, those countries weren’t wealthy in 1500. 4 In fact,     , the difference between rich and poor has got bigger. Speaker B 5 I’m actually not really sure what     the maps is. 6 What do they really     wealth? 7 It doesn’t     lifestyle. 8 I suppose this     it wasn’t producing much wealth. 9 That     that they were poor. a LANguAgE FOCuS 4 Interpreting meaning TCD  1/06 b   North America   Central and South America   India   China Work in A/B pairs. Student A, look at the map in exercise 7, on p. 22. Student B, look on p. 199. Tell your partner what your map shows. Then let him/ her see the map. b   Europe   the Middle East Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv