Task 1. Read the following quotes and write your comments about
the one you mostly agree with.
“Every problem is a gift
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without problems we would not grow.”
Anthony Robbins
Most of the problems are because of two reasons: We act without
thinking or we keep thinking without acting.
Unknown
“The difficult problems in life always start off
being simple. Great
affairs
always start off being
small.”
Lao Tzu
Task 2. Answer the following questions.
What problems do people have as a child, teenager, adolescent, adult and aged?
What are root causes of personal problems?
Task 3. Look at the sample and fill in the cluster. You are allowed to
edit this or create your own cluster.
Task 4.
Read the descriptions. Listen and write the types of
causes. (T1)
Types of causes
Description
1.
2. Human causes.
3.
humans’ irresponsibility or indifference
Task 5. Listen to the track again and fill in the gaps with the words
from the box.
Air
Pollution
GLOBAL
PROBLEMS
Ecological
Factories
Cars
Deforestation
superficially, reiteration, to figure out, the incident,
reasons, the likelihood, triggers, tracing back
1. If you only set a problem
superficially,
the problem will almost certainly happen
again ... which will lead you to ______________ of action concerning the same
problem.
2. Look deeper______________ why the problem is occurring, you can fix the
underlying systems and processes that cause the problem…
3. A specific set of steps to find the primary cause of the problem are: determining
______________ , its __________ , figuring out what to do to reduce ____________
that it will happen again.
4. An action in one area ______________ an action in another, and another, and so on.
5. By _____________ these actions, you can discover where the problem started and
how it grew into the symptom you’re now facing.
Task 6. Read the passages and write down their problem cause
types.
___________ the road is so badly repaired that my
neighbour recently has had a misfortune to get the back
wheel of her car stuck in one of the enormous potholes
outside my gate. She wasn’t only most distressed by the
incident but also had to pay for a breakdown truck to pull
her car out.
Once I asked my secretary to prepare documents for the
conference. She was very responsible, so I didn’t even
suspect that she could fail me. But when I came to the
office nothing was ready. She said that one of our
colleagues made her do his work, and she couldn’t refuse
him as he was an aged person.______________
The thing that worries me most about the world is
increasing of ozone hole. There has been dramatic increase
in number of cases of skin diseases due to the damage to the
ozone layer____________