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Explain five opportunities (education, business, politics, current events) provided by the internet
to empower people;

Education

 The Internet provides great opportunities to improve the quality of education. New
ways of teaching and learning.
 Better access to a much wider range of information and resources, new skills for the
digital age.
 Teachers use online materials to prepare lessons, and students use them to extend their
range of learning.
 Interactive teaching methods, supported by the Internet, enable teachers to give more
attention to individual students’ needs and support shared learning.
 Internet gives access to a wide-range of information that helps people to explore,
discover and understand new things that can empower them because of the knowledge
that they get from it.

Business

 Internet provides great opportunities to improve your business; you can use it to find
new ways to have sales.
 You can use this as a tool to look for new ideas to improve your business.
 It can provide you information about your competitors
 It can empower people because they can use internet to introduce and promote their
business online
 In our current situation, internet is a great tool for business, why? Because online selling
is very in demand nowadays specially we are in the middle of pandemic.

Politics

 With the growth of the Internet, more activities are being conducted online. Politics is
no exception. Political parties, other groups and individuals are increasingly using the
Internet to spread their messages
 The Internet may have the potential to make an extremely strong contribution to the
political process because of the way in which it facilitates reciprocal rather than just
one-way communication.
 Through the Internet, citizens can access huge amounts of relatively unfiltered
information. This information can be used to formulate opinions, and analyze
government actions and decisions.
 The news media have been quick to establish Internet sites that provide access to
political information.
 Internet plays a huge roll in politics; you can freely express your views and opinions
online.

Current events
 Internet nowadays is used to update people online with current events for us to be
aware of what is happening.
 It can help us to be prepared. Let us say that this month we will be having an
earthquake, typhoon, etc.
 Current events such as pandemic, it can update that if there is an effective vaccine that
can kill the virus.
 People tend to have an easy access or knowledge about current events by social media.
 In this era people has the power to post a current event using their platform.