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4.1 Identifying ideas from different perspectives
Identifying ideas from different perspectives
✓ Analysis ✓ Refl ection
Learning focus
• Understand what is meant by different perspectives. • Identify ideas and evidence from sources.
Getting started
What is a perspective? It means a person’s ‘point of view’ and also a person’s attitude towards something developed from and supported by evidence. Do you have the same perspective as the person you are sitting next to about these questions? Let’s fi nd out! 1 Work with a partner to ask and answer these questions. Be respectful of each other’s opinions. a) What is the best topping for pizza? b) Which sport is the most fun to watch on TV? c) Which school subject is the most useful to study? d) How old should children be before they get a mobile phone? 2 These three perspective questions are harder to answer. Why do you think that is? You could discuss this as a class. a) Should single-use plastic products be made illegal? b) Is it wrong to eat meat? c) Is it okay to take fashion ideas from cultures other than your own?
Key terms perspective: a viewpoint on an issue based on evidence and reasoning Vocabulary single-use plastic: products made from plastic that are designed to be used just once and then thrown awaySample Pages
Globalisation is the topic for this chapter. People have different perspectives about what globalisation is.
Globalisation is about making money. When it becomes easier for countries to trade with each other, that’s globalisation.
Globalisation is about people. When people in different countries can communicate with each other in real time and share ideas, that’s globalisation.
Globalisation is about culture. When a country’s culture is infl uenced by culture from other countries, that’s globalisation. Key terms globalisation: when what was local and national becomes global because Identifying ideas from different sources of information is important for developing your analysis skills. 3 a) Work with a partner to put the ideas in these fi ve quotations into your own words. What does globalisation mean to you? Globalisation only became important when people, money and information started to move around the world rapidly. Globalisation is nothing new – countries in Asia and Europe were trading with each other along the Silk Road for over a thousand years! Sample Pages b) Then use some or all of the ideas to put together your own of increasing connections statement about what globalisation means to you. Here are around the world; for some ideas for getting started: example, pizza was once local (Naples, Italy) and is ‘Globalisation is a big concept. Here are the three most now global important things to know…’ ‘Let’s use some examples to show you what globalisation means…’ ‘Speaking from personal experience, globalisation…’
In Chapter 3, you began developing your analysis skills: identifying ideas and getting evidence from sources. Let’s recap those skills now with two sources about food – and globalisation. These will help you explore different perspectives about globalisation. evidence: information about a global issue that helps to develop understanding or prove that something is true or false
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Anton’s travel blog
Today’s topic: Eating fast food while abroad?
OK, so a few people have asked my advice about fast food when you’re travelling. My view is that it is 100 per cent part of the travelling experience to try local food. Yes, fast food is convenient and sometimes it is the only thing available; like when you arrive in a city late. But even then, I would try to eat local fast food, rather than go to the big Western fast-food restaurants. I don’t want to judge other travellers – but really, guys! No Big Macs! For me, travelling is about getting those authentic experiences. Already, so many places around the world seem the same, with the same shops, the same fashions and the same food, served by the same big Western fast-food chains. My take on this: we are losing so much traditional culture. Vive la différence!
vive la différence!: (French) meaning ‘long live the difference’ – a term that celebrates diversity Sample Pages
Hello! My name is Anton: I’m 22, I’m from Canada and for the last year I’ve been travelling in Europe and Asia.
4 Answer these questions about Anton’s travel blog. a) What is Anton arguing for here? b) List the reasons he gives to back up his argument. c) Make a link between Anton’s perspective and globalisation.
5 Have a group discussion to explore these questions: a) What dish or dishes do you consider to be your national food?
b) Why do you think that countries have national dishes?
Final task
6 Think of some questions about this article for a partner to answer. Your questions should: a) Test whether your partner can identify the main ideas in the article. b) Ask them to provide evidence to support their answer to question a. c) Ask them to say how the article is linked to globalisation. d) Ask about their own perspective on the article. How ‘national’ Part of what makes up a nation’s self-image is its national dish. For Jamaica, it might be ackee and are national saltfi sh, for Greece – moussaka, and what could be more Irish than Irish stew? We think of these national dishes as ‘rooted in the soil’ of their nation. dishes? However, the origins of some national dishes suggest a more complicated history. For example, Jewish people forced to leave their homes in Spain and Portugal brought their traditional dish of pescado frito – fried fi sh – to Britain, and that’s how we have British fi sh and chips. Likewise, ‘as American as apple pie’ is a wellknown saying about another national symbol. However, apples were not native to America: they were brought to the continent by Europeans, while the spices of cinnamon and nutmeg in the pies came from Asia. And the idea of apple pie as being a national dish only began in the 20th century. So, foods that we might think of as national can sometimes have surprisingly international histories. As British as – pescado frito? Globalisation is much older than we might think!
Vocabulary pescado frito: (Spanish) fried fi sh – a traditional dish from the southern coast of Spain and Portugal Sample Pages REFLECTION POINT Working on your own, refl ect on how you feel about globalisation now. Are your feelings positive, negative or somewhere in between? Write down your refl ection.
