INFOGRAPHICS

Philip Newman

QUIZ - FORESTS

1) Which 5 countries have most forest?

a) US, Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia

b) Canada, Russia, Brazil, US and China

c) Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria, Mexico and Canada

2) What % of the forest in the world has been cut down already?

a) 40%

b) 60%

c) 80%

3) Which area has lost most forest?

a) South America

b) Africa

c) South and South-east Asia

4) How much forest is destroyed every year by illegal cutting of trees?

a) 2 million hectares

b) 5 million hectares

c) 10 million hectares

5) What % of greenhouse gas emissions are from deforestation?

a) about 8%

b) about 15%

c) about 20%

6) In 10km2 of rainforest, there can be:

a) 750 types of tree, 400 types of bird and 150 types of butterfly

b) 75 types of tree, 40 types of bird and 15 types of butterfly

Create a quiz – ask questions relating to sections from ‘Forest Facts’ poster:

1) Trees R Us

Question:

2) Woodwork

Question:

3) Heat & shelter

Question:

4) Biodiversity

Question:

5) Cut and run

Question:

6) Felons

Question:

7) Carbon control

Question:

8) Clean air, pure water & medicine

Question:

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Now: Re-write your questions in different order and

give them to a partner to answer.

Flexible Working:

Explain your own opinion about work in the future Ask your questions to a partner and find out their opinions

Concerning work in the future.

Explain – situation in the past:

Explain – situation at present:

Explain situation in the future

Write questions concerning the past situation:

Write questions concerning situation at present:

Write questions concerning situation in the future

Stress

Explain: Compare:

1) America, France & England for stress at work

What can you conclude from these comparisons?

Which culture is the healthiest in terms of

work- related stress?

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Discuss in pairs – then compare your conclusions.

1) What is stressful at work = what make you

feel stressed = what stresses you out at work?

2) How do you cope with = How do you deal with

work related stress?

3) What is the difference between – ‘stressed’ and

‘burnt out’?

4) There is more stress in the workplace today

than twenty years ago. True or False.

5) More people take time off work (= sick leave)

today, because of stress, than twenty years ago.

True or False

Plastics

Explain these numbers:

73.9

$1.7 billion

One hundred times

8 out of 10

10 months

54%

Three hundred and thirty-three million

0.1 trillion

A little under 75 million lbs

Ninety-two and a half percent

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Write questions to give answers with these numbers.

Congratulations – you have given a presentation in English!

How can you improve your environmental presentation?

Explain the environmental problem concerning plastics:

Explain solutions to this problem:

Land Grabs:

Grab = to take something by force

How much land is being grabbed?

Who are the land grabbers?

Why are they grabbing land?

What happens to the people who live on the land?

What do you conclude from this poster?

Present the subject and your conclusions.

Congratulations! You have given a presentation in English!

Explain these numbers:

2.2 (USA) – 1.3 (Argentina)

4x (higher)

Just under 31 million hectares

2/3

17%

2 million hectares (2009)

19%

21

Create a list of questions for a partner to provide

answers from the infographics chart.

Foreign investment in third world countries helps

solve global food crises. True or False?

Land acquisition, in third world countries by first

world countries, jeopardizes food supply int those

third world countries. True or False?

Big DATA

Find the number:

1) Hours of video uploaded to Youtube every minute

2) Bytes need to store 250 million DVDs

3) Mobile phone traffic in 2013

4) Cost of poor data to US economy

5) Jobs created globally by big data management

Explain these numbers:

$53.4 billion

$65.7 million

18x

570+ per minute

0.14 – 0.19 million people

A fifth

0.9 ZB

Explain what you think the world was like before –

- Computers

- Televisions

- Telephones

- Cars

How did people live and spend their free time without

this modern technology?

Has the world developed for the better or worse?

Data management is crucial in today’s business world.

True or False?

Data management has always been crucial.

True or False?