GLOBALIZATION

Who benefits
How does
What is Who controls (who doesn´t)
globalization
globalization? globalization? from
affects me?
globalization?

Aims:

• Students encounters ideas of global interdependence

• Students analyze the integration of countries into the world economy and the information, technological, and
communications revolutions.

Warm-up:
Where the clothing you are wearing is made of?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38MfZ17nT50

Create an image showing your connections to the rest of the world based on the journey of a t-shirt production.

Scenario A https://apps.npr.org/tshirt/#/cotton
Scenario B https://apps.npr.org/tshirt/#/machines
Scenario C https://apps.npr.org/tshirt/#/people
Scenario D https://apps.npr.org/tshirt/#/boxes
Scenario E https://apps.npr.org/tshirt/#/you

• What’s the origin of the cotton that is used to produce the t-shirt
• What technology do they use to produce it?
• Where is the technology made? Where is the company that owns the technology-based?
• How do the supplies and the final t-shirt move around the world?
• What is behind that production?

Watch the video and write the impact of the scenario you are working on, and decide what is the impact
of the scenario; Is it positive or negative? (You can use the ‘Depends’ column but you will need to justify this
selection).

Scenario Positive Negative Depends

 Interconected
Interdependence

World´s
Advantages /
explanation: Global
disadvantages
perspective

European Union /
Main areas of
OECD / Whole
globalization
world

Global standards.
Changes - costs -

Activity 1.

Video: https://ed.ted.com/on/F2HX0akU

1. What is globalization?

2. What is an example and effect of economic globalization?

• EXAMPLE:

• EFFECT :

3. What is an example and effect of political globalization?

• EXAMPLE:

• EFFECT :

4. What is an example and effect of cultural globalization?

• EXAMPLE:

• EFFECT:

5. According to the video, who benefits from globalization? Elaborate your answer.
6. According to the video, who is challenged by the effects of globalization? Elaborate your answer.

7. Elaborate a definition of globalization, present it to your partners in a creative way.

8. How has globalization altered your life so far? Have you experienced any negative consequences of
globalization?

9. How do you think global interdependence affects other problems such as:
• Poverty

• Human rights

• Global health

• Other