Trends

What are trends?

“Trend is any form of behavior that develops

among a large population and is collectively followed with

enthusiasm for some period. A trend is said to "catch on" when the

number of people adopting it begins to increase rapidly”

Tipping point

"the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point."

Knowledge Society

Changes in work patterns

A century ago-manual workThese days –knowledge work

Advantages equal opportunities for all to be a success Problems high competition psychological pressures Solutions development of non-competitive/outside

interests

Synonyms

1.Manual workers were the largest single group the overwhelming majority the dominant social and political force 2.Manual workers/knowledge technologists educational background/formal education the amount of theoretical knowledge

Synonyms

Over the next few decades/in the coming years educational institutions will grow to meet the requirements of

knowledge technologists

Synonyms

Different ways of education in future Non-traditional waysAccessible to everyoneChanges in women’s rolesKnowledge work can be done equally by

both sexes

Notes completion

manual workersknowledge workersknowledge technologistscontinuingrole of womenpsychological pressures

Vocabulary

Types of continuing education accessible (adj) to everyone/everyone has an access (n) to

weekend seminarsonline training programmese-learning home schooling

Compound words

Knowledge technologists Knowledge workers Knowledge society Labour force High-knowledge professionals Highly knowledgeable adults Highly educated adults Well-trained professionals Rat race Sleep deprivation

Noun phrases

manual work an enormous impact on a great effect on the overwhelming majority of people the fast-growing group formal and advanced schooling considerable theoretical knowledge striking growth upward mobility total ignorance substantial amount of theoretical knowledge ludicrous idea outstanding levels of achievement educational institutions to prepare knowledge technologists

Collocations

Knowledge acquire (anew) inherit bequeath apply Education provide deliver Requirements meet

Grammatical patterns

work with handson farms, in shops in the coming yearsover the next decades growth in (knowledge technologists)the need for (education)opportunity for (contribution)

Set expressions

Make one’s living Be in trouble

Ambitious grammar

Knowledge technologists are as much manual workers as they are knowledge workers

They usually spend far more time working with their hands

They are not, as a rule, much better paid than traditional skilled workers

Knowledge technologists are likely to become the dominant political

The information revolution, which is expected to have an enormous impact on education, will have …

Also women have always worked, since time immemorial the jobs they have done have been different from men’s