Periode 2- Week 1

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

English

To Do:

• Studiewijzer bespreken
• English Connect: Business Partner Unit 2.1 
• MyEnglishLab/ Workbook: Vocabulary

Unit 2 - Business Sectors

Sectors of industry: 

• primary
  
• secondary
  
• tertiary
  
• quaternary (sometimes included with the tertiary sector)

The quaternary sector consists of those industries providing information services, such as computing, ICT , consultancy (offering advice to businesses) and R&D .

2.1 Japan's Economy

At the end of this lesson you can use vocabulary related to different sectors and industries which drive economic activities.

2.1 Lead-in

Look at the photos from Japan. What can you see? What other iconic images represent the country?

2.1  Lead-in

1) In what ways do you think Japan is very traditional and in what ways is it very modern?

2)How has Japanese popular culture had an impact on the world? Give examples.

3)How has Japanese industry had an impact on the world? Give examples.

4)What do these Japanese companies make or do?

Canon -Mitsubishi- Nikon- Nintendo- SoftBank- Sony- Toyota

2.1 - Exercise 3

A)  Look at the list of industries. Choose the ones you predict will appear in a video about the development of Japan's economy.

agriculture- cars- energy- electronics- finance- fishing

B) Watch the video and check your predictions.

2.1 - Exercise 4

Watch the video and decide if these sentences are true or false. Then correct the incorrect sentences.

1 We think of the USA leading in the internet technology sector.

2 Japan is the second largest industrialised economy in the world.

3 The country's banks and financial market are an important part of the economy.

4 Japan was slow to use robots in car manufacturing.

5 Japanese cars were not popular in other countries in the 1970s.

6 Japan's car manufacturers continue to invent new vehicles in the twenty-first century.

7 The Sony Walkman was a revolutionary product because it was very cheap.

8 Both Nintendo and Sony sell popular video game consoles.

 

2.1- Exercise 5

1) According to the video, how was Japan able to build a strong car industry?

2) What two examples of more recent innovations in Japan's car industry are mentioned in the video?

3) How did the Sony Walkman change the way we live today?

2.1-Exercises

• Exercise 6: Complete the extracts from the video using the words and phrases that are given.
• Exercise 7: Match the three economic sectors (A–C) with the descriptions and the examples (1–3).
• Exercise 8: Write the correct industry next to each group (1–8)  & Choose the correct sector for each group.

Finished? >  MyEnglishLab/ Workbook -Vocabulary exercise 1-3 

Watching/Listening

What do you think “Dark Tourism” means?

Watching / Listening

Watch the documentary and answer the questions in English or Dutch.

Answers

1.  An earthquake followed by a tsunami. 
   
2.  0.20 
   
3.  Because of the high radiation level in the area. ( The radiation level is higher than the radiation level in the area around Chernobyl, where no one is allowed to go.) 
   
4.  They are in a dusty area and the dust is particularly radioactive; it can cause cancer. 
   
5.  An amusement arcade/ hall 
   
6.  Grandma’s 
   
7. They don’t trust the food because they don’t know whether it is grown locally (and thus radioactive) or not. 
   
8.  The gravestones were heavy enough to withstand the tsunami. 
   
9.  (Container bags containing) low-level radioactive soil and plants. 
   

Watching / Listening

Have you ever been to a dark tourism spot, or would you like to visit such a spot?