Task Read the following quotes and write your comments about the one you mostly agree with

Task 1. Read the following quotes and write your comments about the one you mostly agree with.

“Every problem is a gift - 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.

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“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.

ANSWER

Factories

Deforestation

Cars

Air

Pollution

GLOBAL PROBLEMS

Medical problems

Ecological problems

water pollution

air pollution

Ecological

Task 4. Read the descriptions. Listen and write the types of causes. (T1)

ANSWER

Types of causes	Description
1. Physical cause 2. Human causes. 3. Organizational cause	-the failure of material items -humans’ irresponsibility or indifference to th e things happened around -the use of inappropriate system, policy or process

Task 5. Listen to the track again and fill in the gaps with the words from the box.

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.
   

ANSWER

1. I f you only set a problem - what you see on the surface - the

problem will almost certainly happen again... which will lead you

to fix it, again, and again, and again.

2. Look deeper to figure out why the problem is occurring, you can

fix the underlying systems and processes that cause the problem.

You should look deeper to reveal root causes of the problem

arising, fix the underlying systems and processes.

3. A specific set of steps to find the primary cause of the problem are:

There is a specific set of steps to find the initial cause of the problem:

• Determine what happened.

• Determine why it happened.

• Figure out what to do to reduce the likelihood that it will

happen again.

determining the incident, its reasons and ways of reducing the

likelihood in case it happens again.

4. An action in one area triggers an action in another, and another,

and so on.

Actions trigger one another and so on.

5. By tracing back 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.

ANSWER

1. A Organizational cause

2. B Human cause

3. C Physical cause