Current Events Semester 3 final exam
review:
These things will be on the test:
1) Vocabulary from both 'The Trading Game' and 'Newsworthy' (see below).
2) Questions about the text on 'The Trading Game'.
3) Questions about all of the one-line articles from 'Newsworthy'.
4) Essay: Compare and Contrast 2 articles in terms of newsworthiness.
'The Trading Game' keywords:
1) a developed country
2) a developing country
3) precise
4) a surplus
5) technology
6) natural resources
7) to import
8) to trade (~) for (~)
9) to take advantage of (~)
10) expensive
11) product
12) to produce something
13) to have/get a chance to (~)
14) the difference (gap) between (~) and (~)
15) skill
16) the world marketplace
17) education
18) a shortage
19) skilled labor
20) to feel powerless
21) cheap
22) lazy
23) reality
24) otherwise
'Newsworthy' keywords:
1) anti-war leaflets 反戦リーフレット
2) Cambodia カンボジア
3) civil war 内戦
4) communist 共産主義
5) East-Timor 東ティモール
6) ghetto ゲットー、スラム街
7) invasion 侵略
8) kidnap 誘拐
9) massacre 大虐殺
10) percentage 割合
11) protest 抗議
12) union 組合
13) uniqueness 特殊性
14) refugee 避難民
15) sex tourism セックス観光
16) Sub-Saharan Africa サハラ砂漠以南のアフリカ
17) torture 拷問
18) weapons of mass destruction 大量破壊兵器