Download sc news and events 2014 Dec

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Do you give money to homeless people?
Why yes? Why no? If yes, when do you do it? Under what circumstances
do you give?
Let’s talk with our classmates about this issue?
Do you think the government does enough to solve this problem?
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Which nations/countries are the most charitable? Which people give the
most to charities? Is it French people? Chinese people? American
people? Spanish people?
Why do some groups of people give more than others?
Let’s first debate what we think the answer is and …and then we’ll find out!
First… where is Myanmar (before it was called “Burma”)
Do people in the United Kingdom (Britain) give more than people in Ireland?
What do you think? Let’s debate this with the people who are sitting at our
table with us …
Do Canadian people give more time or money to charity than people in
Burma/Myanmar?
• Burma/Myanmar
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First… where is Myanmar (before it was called “Burma”)? What is their
religion? How many people live in Myanmar/Burma (what is the population
of Burma?)
What is the average per capita income in Burma?
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Do these results surprise you?
What is “giving behavior”? If you give some of your time to children by
teaching them math, is that charity work? If you give a little money to a
homeless man or woman on the street is that charity?
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Now, let’s take a look at the chart below. It represents statistics from a
different source.
Why do the results appear to be so different? What values were
measured? Does this second set of statistics consider “giving behavior” in
general or only just exact monetary contributions/gifts?
What do you think?
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Strange Hotel Rooms
Would you like to stay in any of the hotel rooms below?
What does each remind you of? What do you think of when you look at
these hotel rooms? How much extra would you pay to stay there?
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Now, let’s take a look at the chart below. It represents statistics from a
different source.
Why do the results appear to be so different? What values were
measured? Does this second set of statistics consider “giving behavior” in
general or only just exact monetary contributions/gifts?
What do you think?
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Salt Lake City is the
capital of Utah (Utah
is a state 犹他州) .
Why do people who
live in Utah give the
most money to
charity? Who lives
in that state? Is that
state famous for
being the home of a
very strict form of
Christianity? Why
are Utah people on
average wealthier
and more educated
than other
Americans?
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Who are these people? What companies did they found/create?
Which ones gave the most to charity in the year 2013? (in a moment we are going to look at
statistics for the year 2013 … sorry it is only one year … but let’s guess which gave the most
to charity in those years…..
What is
“philanthropy”?
It just means to give
money to charity.
Can Mark Zuckerberg
speak some
Chinese?
Is his wife Priscilla
Chan full Chinese
or half Chinese?
Did her ancestors
immigrate to
Vietnam？
Mark and his wife got married in 2012. He studied Chinese before coming on a
visit to Beijing?
This is a cross-cultural marriage. Will there be cultural problems?
Why did she marry him? What was in her mind? Let’s discuss it with our
classmates …..
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To the right you can see the logos
of a few very popular “social
networking” websites. Some of
them have the name of the website
included in the logo. Others do not.
What are the names of these sites?
How do people use them?
What could businesses do with
them?
www.facebook.com
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www.twitter.com
• Let’s try to guess:
www.youtube.com
• Which of these are most
important to businesses?
• Which brands (like coca
cola, Apple, etc..) are on
these sites?
www.instagram.com
www.pinterest.com
www.tumblr.com
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If a company puts lots of videos on Youtube.com how can that help them sell products?
Do you know any Chinese companies which do this? Do they want to introduce themselves
to foreigners?
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The United States has many international trade (国际贸易） partners. Some of them include
France, China, Brazil and others. But which are America’s biggest trade partners? That is:
which countries do the most business with the United states (either imports or exports .. It
doesn’t matter) ? Let’s try to guess the top five:
• 1: ________ 2: ________ 3: _________ 4:___________ 5: __________
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Do these results surprise you? What do you think about these figures?
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What are the biggest oil companies in the world?
What countries do those companies come from?
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Do these results surprise you? What do you think about these figures?
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Saudi Arabia …. Russia ….. Iran …..