INFOGRAPHICS

Philip Newman

QUIZ - FORESTS

1) Which 5 countries have most forest?

a) US, Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia

b) Canada, Russia, Brazil, US and China

c) Brazil, Indonesia, Nigeria, Mexico and Canada

2) What % of the forest in the world has been cut down already? a)

40%

b) 60%

c) 80%

3) Which area has lost most forest?

a) South America

b) Africa

c) South and South-east Asia

4) How much forest is destroyed every year by illegal cutting of trees?

a) 2 million hectares

b) 5 million hectares

c) 10 million hectares

5) What % of greenhouse gas emissions are from deforestation? a)

about 8%

b) about 15%

Create a quiz – ask questions relating to sections from ‘Forest Facts’ poster:

1) Trees R Us Question:

2) Woodwork Question:

3) Heat & shelter Question:

4) Biodiversity Question:

5) Cut and run Question:

6) Felons Question:

7) Carbon control Question:

8) Clean air, pure water &

medicine Question:

________________________________________ Now: Re-write your questions in different order and give them to a partner to answer.

Flexible Working:

Explain your own opinion about work in the future Ask your questions to a partner and find out their opinions

Concerning work in the future.

Explain – situation in the past:

Explain – situation at present:

Explain situation in the future

Write questions concerning the past situation :

Write questions concerning situation at present:

Write questions concerning situation in the future

Stress

Explain:

1) What is stressful at work = what make you feel stressed = what stresses you out at work?

2) How do you cope with = How do you deal with work related stress?

3) What is the difference between – ‘stressed’ and ‘burnt out’?

4) There is more stress in the workplace today than twenty years ago. True or False.

5) More people take time off work (= sick leave) today, because of stress, than twenty years ago.

True or False

Compare :

1) America, France & England for stress at work

What can you conclude fr om these comparisons?

Which culture is the healthiest in terms of

work - related stress?

__________________________________

Discuss in pairs – then compare your conclusions .

Plastics

Explain these numbers:

73.9

$1.7 billion

O ne hundred times

8 out of 10

10 months

54 %

Three hundred and thirty - three million

0.1 t rillion

A little under 75 million l bs

Ninety - two and a half percent

________________________________________

Write questions to give answers with these numbers.

Congrat ulations – you have given a presentation in English!

How can you improve your environmental presentation?

Explain the environmental problem concerning plastics:

Explain solutions to this problem:

Land Grabs:

Grab = to take something by force

How much land is being grabbed?

Who are the land grabbers?

Why are they grabbing land?

What happens to the people who live on the land?

Explain these numbers:

2.2 (USA) – 1.3 (Argentina) 4x

(higher)

Just under 31 million hectares

2/3

17%

2 million hectares (2009)

19%

21

Create a list of questions for a partner to provide answers from the infographics chart.

Foreign investment in third world countries helps solve global food crises. True or False?

Land acquisition, in third world countries by first world countries, jeopardizes food supply int those third world countries. True or False?

What do you conclude from this poster?

Present the subject and your conclusions.

Congratulations! You have given a presentation in English!

Big DATA

Find the number:

1) Hours of video uploaded to Youtube every minute

2) Bytes need to store 250 million DVDs

3) Mobile phone traffic in 2013

4) Cost of poor data to US economy

5) Jobs created globally by big data management

Explain these numbers:

$53.4 billion

$65.7 million

18x

570+ per minute

0.14 – 0.19 million people

A fifth

0.9 ZB

Data management is crucial in today’s business world.

True or False?

Data management has always been crucial.

True or False?

Explain what you think the world was like before –

- Computers - Televisions

- Telephones

- Cars

How did people live and spend their free time without

this modern technology?

Has the world developed for the better or worse?