Problem cause

LESSSON 1. PROBLEM CAUSE

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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.

Air Pollution

Factories

Ecological

burning rubbish

GLOBAL PROBLEMS



Deforestation

Cars

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

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

Task 5. Read the passages and write down their problem cause types.

Physical cause 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. Human cause

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. Organizational cause

Task 6. Write three problems you faced last week and explain their roots.