Portfolio exercise #2

Quiz 1 - What is Cultural Diversity

Read the UNESCO report. True or False? If FALSE, write the TRUE answer.

1. At least 6000 different languages exist in the world.	True
2. Over 200 million people live outside the country where they were born.	False / 175 million
3. One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	True
4. Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	False / is the quality of diverse cultural
5. Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	True

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1. Heterogeneous: several things mixed together

2. Plurality: multitude in doing something.

3. Migration: is to move from your born country to another country to live there.

4. Fundamental: acting or relating to the essential nature of something or the crucial point about an issue.

5. Collective strength: is the power of something working together for one goal.

Now read the rest of the article, and answer these questions by researching on the internet.

1. The article mentions food as an example of Cultural Diversity. Can you think of something else which could add interest and richness in a culturally diverse country?

Give the international architectural companies the green light to build the country.

2. Name three ways in which people of different cultures can help a country to function in the new global economy.

-  how to communicate with other cultures.

- send mans to study business abroad.

- hosting famous singers around the world

3. From the internet, in relation to Cultural Diversity, find a picture and a definition of “Melting pot” and “Garden salad”.

Melting pot:

Something where different people, styles, theories, etc., are mixed  together.

Garden salad: A garden salad or tossed

salad is a salad consisting mostly of fresh vegetables.

4. Britain today is one of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. Look on the internet and find out which nationalities make up the “ethnic minority population of over 4 million”.

- Indians. – Pakistanis. – Irish. – African. – Chinese. – Bangladeshi.

5. Australia is another of the most culturally diverse countries in the world. The University of Melbourne has a policy on Cultural Diversity. Read the two paragraphs and summarize them in your own words.

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	like	Increasingly	Decreasingly	Respecting	Disregard
Strength	Powerlessness	Improving	Retreat	Inclusive	Exclusives
Majority	Minority	Tolerance	Intolerance	Equality	Unlike

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	several	Creative	originative	Uniqueness	singularity
Dignity	respect	Integrated	inserted	Asset	savings
Global	international	Benefit	advantage