Portfolio exrcise #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
3. One aspect of Human Rights is respecting different cultures.	True
4. Cultural Diversity means a lack of respect for freedom of thought.	False
5. Cultural Diversity can make a society stronger.	True

Vocabulary practice. Define in your own words:

1. Heterogeneous:  more than one thing.

2. Plurality: :  Majority on doing something.

3. Migration: moving somewhere else or living there.

4. Fundamental: Related to the foundation or base.

5. Collective strength: Assembled into or viewed as a whole.

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?

-language –Sports –Colors of the cars –Clothes

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

-Bringing international companies. –Connecting with other countries. –Creating world events.

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

    Melting pot   Garden salad:

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”.

-China -Black Africans

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.                                                                  

The university of Melbourne understands and respects cultural diversity, they are giving students them everything that they can study in a good environment where every students gets their rights and more and respect each other.

Vocabulary practice. Give the opposite:

Varied	same	Increasingly	decreasing	Respecting	rudeness
Strength	weakness	Improving	desolating	Inclusive	exclusive
Majority	minority	Tolerance	quarreled	Equality	discrimination

Vocabulary practice. Give a synonym:

Diverse	varied	Creative	inventive	Uniqueness	authenticity
Dignity	rescpect	Integrated	inserted	Asset	seed
Global	universal	Benefit	Interest