M1W5 Waystage Reading
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BEYKENT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL –WAYSTAGE Reading Read the text. Welcome to the Global Village Just two generations ago, at the time our grandparents were children, the world seemed a much larger place. Most of our grandparents never travelled from their country of birth. Many people throughout the world never watched television regularly. Nonstop international news on stations like CNN didn’t exist. There was no World Wide Web to surf; in fact, many of our parents didn’t have their own telephone. International travel was difficult. Airfares were very expensive, and some countries like China and the former Soviet Union, did not allow their citizens to go freely to other countries. Students studied in their country of birth and very rarely went overseas to learn a language or continue their education. People of that generation travelled the world only through books and their imaginations. Today the world feels much smaller. We can easily visit different countries as tourists, students, and workers. We settle in different countries, bringing our languages and cultures with us. We can turn on the TV, open a newspaper, or go online and instantly find out what is happening around the world. We e-mail our friends who live across seas and mountains. We eat American food in Tokyo and Japanese food in Miami. Many of us speak more than one language, and we have children whose first language is not our first language. Many countries have opened up their borders. For example, people from Eastern Europe now enjoy the freedom to travel. The whole world has opened up. So welcome to the global village – a new world which seems smaller because we are all more closely connected. We now live in a world where ideas, goods, and people move easily across the borders. In the global village, one small community reflects the larger world. Businesses import and export goods from different 1
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BEYKENT UNIVERSITYSCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL –WAYSTAGEReading
Read the text.
Welcome to the Global Village
Just two generations ago, at the time our grandparents were children, the world seemed a much larger place. Most of our grandparents never travelled from their country of birth. Many people throughout the world never watched television regularly. Nonstop international news on stations like CNN didn’t exist. There was no World Wide Web to surf; in fact, many of our parents didn’t have their own telephone. International travel was difficult. Airfares were very expensive, and some countries like China and the former Soviet Union, did not allow their citizens to go freely to other countries. Students studied in their country of birth and very rarely went overseas to learn a language or continue their education. People of that generation travelled the world only through books and their imaginations.
Today the world feels much smaller. We can easily visit different countries as tourists, students, and workers. We settle in different countries, bringing our languages and cultures with us. We can turn on the TV, open a newspaper, or go online and instantly find out what is happening around the world. We e-mail our friends who live across seas and mountains. We eat American food in Tokyo and Japanese food in Miami. Many of us speak more than one language, and we have children whose first language is not our first language. Many countries have opened up their borders. For example, people from Eastern Europe now enjoy the freedom to travel. The whole world has opened up.
So welcome to the global village – a new world which seems smaller because we are all more closely connected. We now live in a world where ideas, goods, and people move easily across the borders.
In the global village, one small community reflects the larger world. Businesses import and export goods from different countries. Of course, many communities have a McDonald’s and a Starbucks. There is also a Mexican restaurant two doors down from a Vietnamese restaurant. There is an internet café where you can go online and chat with faraway friends. Across the street is a Korean mall with Korean hairdressers, grocery stores, and health clinic. As you wait to cross the street, Japanese, European, Korean, and American cars race by. Everywhere you go, you see people who look like you and different from you. You hear people talking in your language, and you hear the musical sounds of other languages. The global village is where you live. It’s your neighborhood. It’s your home.
A. Circle the correct option for each question according to the text.
1. Our grandparents didn’t usually travel out of the country because ……………
a) the world was bigger than it is todayb) people did not want to travelc) travel was more difficult than it is today
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BEYKENT UNIVERSITYSCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL –WAYSTAGEReading
2. According to the reading, our grandparents usually learned about other countries through………………
a) readingb) surfing the Webc) studying overseas
3. The whole world has opened up (paragraph 2) means ………………………
a) children can speak more than one languageb) new businesses opened around the worldc) it is much easier to learn about and travel to other countries
4. The global village reflects the larger world because …………………………
a) villages around the world are much largerb) communities are multicultural with people from many different countries c) communities are small places with a lot of people
5. The following sentence tells you that the writer likes this new world:
a) Today the world feels much smallerb) The whole world has opened upc) So welcome to the global village
B. Match the words in bolds from the text with their definitions
settle exports border surf mall go online airfare generation reflects chat
1. The official line that separates two countries …………………..2. Communicate online in a friendly, informal manner …………………...3. Sells or sends to another country …………………...4. The average period of time between birth of adults
and the birth of their children ……………………5. Connect to the internet ……………………6. Represents or shows ……………………7. Begin living in a place for a long time ……………………8. Search on the internet for different Web sites ……………………9. Shopping center which has different shops and restaurants ……………………10. Price for travelling by plane ……………………
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BEYKENT UNIVERSITYSCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL –WAYSTAGEReading
Answer Key
A. 1. C2. A3. C4. B5. C
B. 1. border2. chat3. exports4. generation5. go online6. reflects7. settle8. surf9. mall10. airfare
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