GLOBAL ISSUES

IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS
A hot potato: Speak of an issue (mostly current) which many people are
talking about and which is usually disputed.
Actions speak louder than words: Peoples intention can be judged better by
what they do than what they say.
At the drop of a hat: Without any hesitation, instantly.
Ball is in your court: It is up to you to make the next decision or step.
Drastic times call for drastic measures: When you are extremely desperate
you need to take drastic actions.
In the heat of the moment: Overwhelmed by what is happening in the
moment.

IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS
On the ball: When someone understands the situation well.
Try to put yourself in his/her shoes: Put yourself in someones place.
Walk a mile in someone elses skin: Put yourself in someones place.
Clear the air: Try to resolve a problem.

QUOTES
When it comes to global health, there is no them only us - Global Health
Council.
Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions- Albert
Einstein.
Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups - Old
Chinese proverb.
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. - Mahatma
Gandhi.
We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced- Malala
Yousafzi.

QUOTES
No! Try not- Do, or Do Not,; there is no try- Yoda, The Empire Strikes Back.
Freedom without opportunity is a devils gift, and the refusal to provide
such opportunities is criminal- Noan Chomsky
During the times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a
revolutionary act- George Orwell.

WORDS
Inadequate

Self-serving

Resources

Conflict

Alternative

Prevention

International trade

Biodiversity

Geoengineering

Depletion: The use or

consumption of a resource,
especially a natural resource,
faster than it is replenished

Energy conservation

JARGONS
Global Warming

Migration

Gambling

Drugs

Climate change

Energy reserves

Illiteracy

Food and water

Racism

Natural diseases

Discrimination

Globalization

Prejudice

International economy

Poverty

Famine

PHRASES
Addressing the causes and effects of climate change has been a key focus of
USAIDs development assistance for over a decade.
USAIDs Global Climate Change Program is active in more than 40 countries.
New technologies and practices offer the prospect for continued economic
growth with reduced greenhouse gas emissions.
Promoting biodiversity conservation, improved forest management, and
sustainable agriculture, USAID programs in more than 25 countries help
mitigate climate change by absorbing and storing carbon dioxide from
the atmosphere.

Communication &
Media

IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS
A hot potato: Speak of an issue (mostly current) which many people are
talking about and which is usually disputed
Jump on the bandwagon: Join a popular trend or activity.
Mean business: Being serious about what you announce.
In the heat of the moment: Overwhelmed by what is happening in the
moment.
On the ball: When someone understands the situation well.

QUOTES

Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture. - Allen Ginsberg
The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty
and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the
masses. - Malcolm X.
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George
Bernard Shaw
Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success. - Paul J.
Meyer
Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to w
ork at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life. - Brian Tracy

WORDS
Television
Advertising
Commercial
Mass media
Mass communication
Media targets

Media literacy
Product placement
Website
Stereotypes
Culture

JARGONS
Advertising

Mainstream media

Bias in media

Tabloids and broadsheets

Censorship

Political correctness

Internet

Mail

Media ownership

Press

Propaganda

Radio and television

PHRASES
Should thin be in?
Women- and their body parts -sell everything from food to cars.
Popular film and television actresses are becoming younger, taller and
thinner.
Researchers report that womens magazines have ten and one-half times
more ads and articles promoting weight loss than mens magazines do.
Television and movies reinforce the importance of a thin body as a measure
of a womans worth.
Advertising rules the marketplace and in advertising thin is in.

SOCIAL
RELATIONSHIPS

IDIOMATIC EXPRESSION
- get on like a house on fire: Two people who get on like a house on fire
have similar interests and quickly become good friends.
- get a raw deal: If you say that some has got a raw deal, you think they
have been treated unfairly or badly.
- go with the flow: If you go with the flow, you follow the general tendency
and go along with whatever happens.
- good walls make good neighbours: This expression means that
respecting one another's privacy helps create a good relationship
between neighbours.
- play gooseberry: If you play gooseberry, you join or accompany two people
who have a romantic relationship and want to be alone.
- herding cats: This expression refers to the difficulty of coordinating a
situation which involves people who all want to act independently.

IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS

- Close to home: A comment which is true and makes you uncomfortable

- Fish out of water: Feeling uncomfortable in unfamiliar surroundings.
- Cut to the quick: Hurting someone deeply or offending them.
- build bridges: If a person builds bridges between opposing groups, they
help them to cooperate and understand each other better.
- cut loose: If someone cuts loose or is cut loose, they stop being
influenced or controlled by another person or group.
- He's thirty years old and still hasn't cut loose from his family.
- see eye to eye with someone: If you see eye to eye with somebody, you
agree with them.
- fair-weather friend: Someone who acts as a friend when times are good,
and is not there when you are in trouble, is called a fair-weather friend.

WORDS
Laconic: Micio
Painstakingly: Acting with, showing, or involving great care and attention.
Aloof: at a distance, especially in feeling or interest.
Evoke
Nuanced: a subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning,
response
Initiative

QUOTES
A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People
wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.
- Bertrand Russell.
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelatio
ns, the relations within which these individuals stand
- Karl Marx
Cause and effect are never divided between two people. Max Frisch,
I'm Not Stiller

All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash
economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a natio
n gone under.
- Ronald Reagan
Let us form one body, one heart, and defend to the last warrior our country,
our homes, our liberty, and the graves of our fathers.
- Tecumseh
You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.- Swami Vivekananda
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get nei
ther.
- C. S. Lewis
I think the greatest taboos in America are faith and failure.- Michael Malone

JARGONS
- Indigenous
- Politics
- Economic
- celebrations, social and religious
events
- educational system
- language and cultural identity, or
self-identity
- linguistic dominance

nationalism, patriotism,
fanaticism

relationships (friendship, work,

family)

social and/or political

structures

social behaviours and stances

taboos versus what is socially

acceptable.

PHRASES
Third Culture Kids, or Global Nomads, these students have a tremendous
impact of the global community.
They are raised in the margin of mosaic and learn to balance worlds from
within.
They often relocate to new homes and/or countries.
They are exposed to new cultures and to other people in the community
who also move constantly.

PHRASES
Global nomad
Raised in the margin of mosaic
To coin the phrase
A host of cultural identities
Hindi remains a closed book
Borderline contempt
A breath of fresh air
Steeped in expat culture