Going global
The term globalisation refers to the growing global _________ of trade, travel, knowledge and influence.
What is network?
The UK consists of those countries.
What are England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?
The name of the current US President's wife.
What is Jill Biden?
What is a utopia?
Somebody contributes to a community without receiving any payment.
What is volunteerism?
Through globalisation the world is getting smaller. It thus has become a ___________.
What is global village?
The 3 elements of the British Parliament are: the monarch, the House of Lords and _____.
What is the House of Commons?
By the 1770s the "US" consisted of ____ colonies.
What is 13?
Ray Bradbury's world-famous dystopian novel.
What is Fahrenheit 451?
A language spoken by such a vast number of people all over the world so that it enables speakers of different first languages to successfully communicate with each other.
What is a lingua franca?
The latest financial crisis started in the USA in the Lehman Brothers Bank and affected the whole world in that year.
What is 2008?
The name of the current British Prime Minister is ______.
What is Rishi Sunak?
The term _________ describes the various ethnicities living in the US, adding their own traditions and cultural values but their various heritage does not merge into one.
What is "salad bowl"?
What is science fiction?
That number of EU countries have a statutory minimum wage.
What is 21?
Due to increased mobility, diseases like the corona virus (COVID-19) or H1N1 (______) can easily spread all around the globe.
What is "Swine Flu"?
The UK is divided into this number of constituencies.
What is 646?
The idea of the _______ began when Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1776 that Americans were born with unalienable rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
What is The American Dream?
The author of Frankenstein.
Who is Mary Shelley?
A strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation.
What is vocation?
When jobs are outsourced to low-wage countries, the workers often wor in so-called ____ for long hours at a stretch, earning only minimum wages.
What are sweatshops?
The traditional party of the "working class".
What is The Labour Party?
In that year American women gained the right to vote.
What is 1920?
A, T, G and C.
What are nucleotides?
A brief account of a person's education, qualifications, and previous occupations, typically sent with a job application.
What is a CV/Curiiculum Vitae?