VIP 2hrs Class Notes (Tibo) [S/W]
Next Class Focus
Work on how to simplify expression (keep it safe)
Reading
Read this short story, and then write a summary.
Shipping containers
A shipping container is a large metal box that sits on a truck, train or ship. It may look simple, but this box made globalization possible.
The history of the shipping container goes back to 1956.
Malcolm McLean had a trucking company in America. His business was good, but he wanted to make it better. He looked at the shipping industry and saw a problem.
In those days, shipping was slow. A truck would drive to a port. Workers moved boxes by hand from the truck to a ship. When the ship arrived at a new port, more workers moved boxes by hand.
Malcolm’s idea was simple. Put products inside a container. At a port, big machines would move containers between trucks, trains and ships. Moving small boxes by hand was no longer necessary.
During the 1970s and 1980s, container shipping became popular. Ports with the special equipment needed to lift containers were built around the world.
How did shipping containers change business? First, shipping became cheaper and faster. Before Malcolm’s idea, the cost of shipping was $59 per tonne. Shipping by container is about 16 cents per tonne.
Before containers, the average port worker could load 1.7 tonnes per hour. With containers, that average was 30 tonnes.
Containers move large volumes of material. For example, one 40-foot container can hold 320 televisions, or 5000 pairs of pants, or 100 washing machines.
Another change was employment. Before containers, businesses manufactured lots of products in North America and Europe. That has changed. Companies now open factories in low cost Asian countries and transport products everywhere. Jobs are created in Asia. Jobs are lost in western countries.
For good or bad, globalization has transformed the world by making shipping more efficient. That change was possible because of one man and a metal box.
Writing exercise
FACT
Focus:
This passage/text/article/ is about how a man and his idea of a metal box changed the shipping
How a man and his idea of metal box changed the shipping industry of the whole world which contributed a lot in globalization.
How a man and his idea of a metal box gave shape to a whole new shipping standard.
A man invented a metal box to solve a small problem and it changed the whole shipping industry
Analyze:
Who: Malcolm Mclean X
When 1956-1980s / in the second half of the 1900s X
Where in America X
Why Low efficiency in shipping X
What Goods were put into standardized metal containers X
How It was much easier and more efficient to transport containers among ships trucks and trains X
Malcolm Mclean in America found a solution to the problem of low efficiency in shipping in the second half of the 1900s. He put goods into standardized metal containers which made the transportation of containers among ships trucks and trains much easier and much more efficient.
Conclusion
It began with a small idea but ended with a big change of the whole industry and brought an unexpected growth of globalization.
Tighten
This text is about how a man invented a metal box to solve a small problem and it changed the whole shipping industry
Malcolm Mclean found a solution to the problem of inefficient shipping in America during the second half of the 1900s. He put goods into standardized metal containers which made the transportation of goods much easier and more efficient.
It began with a small idea but ended up changing the whole industry and speeded up globalization significantly.
Speaking exercise
Abortion
I side with student B, and I am against knowing the gender of the child before it birth by ultrasound scan.
Maybe some parents want to know the gender of the children just because or curiosity or they bare but most parents want to know only because they want to make decision to abort or not. In most cases I am against this move because of it. I know people have different preference of boys and girls however it shouldn’t be the reason to abort in any way. All children are given by god or in another word by the magnificent universe, we should love them regardless the gender. So no ultrasound scan before birth that’s my opinion.
I side with student B, and I am against knowing the gender of the child before it’s birth by ultrasound scan.
Maybe some parents want to know the gender of the children just because of curiosity or because they care but most parents want to know only because they want to make the decision/decide to abort or not. In most cases I am against this move because of it. I know people have different preferences between boys and girls however it shouldn’t be the reason to abort in any way. Life itself is a gift, we should treasure it. We should love them regardless the gender. So no ultrasound scan before birth that’s my opinion.
Speaking exercise
Religion
This religion doesn’t have motivation to modernize. If a country like the UK is governed by Muslim and put more resources in religion activities like building mosques and adapting local laws according to the Shariat I am sure that is what an enemy like to see. Look at the map of the world. None of the muslim country is highly modernized because modernization contradicts their sacred text
This religion doesn’t have motivation to modernize. If a country like the UK is governed by Muslims and devotes more resources to religious activities like building mosques and adapting local laws according to the Shariat I am sure that it is what an enemy would like to see/ it is exactly what their enemies hope to see. Look at the map of the World. None of the muslim countries is highly modernized because modernization contradicts their sacred text.
I don’t want the government to control our life too much/ I don’t want the government to be too involved in people’s life.
Their struggle against oppression is an honor, that is two different things. Free religion is a right, but thinking that one religion is more honorable than another one is wrong.
It will be easier for countries with more resources to get an advantage in the competition among countries / for the leadership.
It will be easier for countries with more resources to compete with others.
Vocabulary
form 形式
politically correct / which is not going to hurt anyone
Being politically correct is more and more difficult in the west.
easily offended / easily get hurt
to demand / to ask in a strong way
To be entitled / to feel like you have a right to something
mosque / temple for muslims
barbaric / uncivilized
etiquette / a code of conduct
respecting the social etiquette is the most important thing when you go to another country.
islam (the religion)
muslims(s) (people)
Sacred text / bible/Shariat/….
to go downhill / to get worse
The plan is starting to go downhill, maybe we should think about something else.
bipolar / 2 poles / people who go from being nice to being angry suddenly
John is bipolar, he alternates from happiness to sadness very quickly
Marxism / the doctrine developed by Karl Marx
Massacre / death of many people (they got killed)
There is a memorial in Nanjing about the massacre that happened during WW2.
Crime against humanity
Mussolini was found guilty of crime against humanity by the Hague
Proletariat / the name of the working class in communist texts
I am not preferable to see ->. I’d rather not see …..It is not preferable for Russia to lose here as it would become a problem for us in the future.
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