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The song.

It´s an ecological song. It defends the farm and the Earth.

Try to explain this cartoon:

-In this picture, the workers are squeezed by the multinational´s boss.

Try to explain this cartoon:

-In this picture the boss of a multinational is like a king. He has a lot of factories around the world, so he´s like the king of the world.

Try to explain this cartoon:

-In this picture, a secretary speaking by pone with her boss about his global offices. The boss has factories around the world, so he has a multinational.

Find out.

-What is a multinational corporation (MNCs)?

A multinational corporation (MNC) or transnational corporation (TNC), also called multinational enterprise (MNE) is a corporation or an enterprise that manages production or delivers services in more than one country. The International Labour Organization (ILO) has defined an MNC as a corporation which has its management headquarters in one country known as the home country and operates in several other countries known as host countries.

-Write a few lines about its characteristics.

The multinational corporations have an overall concept, maintains a global perspective on their business on markets, products and services, under which perceive the world as your target market. They are characterized by the employment of both country of origin and the country in which they settled. Free competition ceases to exist and becomes a situation of imperfect competition. Multinational corporations distort information through the control of advertising, which now extends to the production of complete lines of magazines or newspapers.


- State the main 5 industrial MNCs and the country they are from.

The biggest MNCs are : Coca-Cola Company, Microsoft, IBM, Intel ( all of the above are in the USA) and Sony (it´s in Japan).


-Could ZARA be a multinational? And Citroën?. Write a brief report about them.

Yes, Zara and Citroën are multinationals.

ZARA : is the flagship chain store of Inditex Group owned by Spanish tycoon Amancio Ortega, who also owns brands such as Massimo Dutti, Pull and Bear, Oysho, Uterqüe, Stradivarius and Bershka. The group is headquartered in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain, where the first Zara store opened in 1975. It is claimed that Zara needs just two weeks to develop a new product and get it to stores, compared with a six-month industry average, and launches around 10,000 new designs each year. Zara has resisted the industry-wide trend towards transferring fast fashion production to low-cost countries. Perhaps its most unusual strategy was its policy of zero advertising; the company preferred to invest a percentage of revenues in opening new stores instead.

CITROËN : is a French automobile manufacturer. Founded in 1919 by André Citroën, it was the one of the world's first mass-production car company outside of the USA. Since 1976 it has been part of PSA Peugeot Citroën, and its headquarters is on rue Fructidor, in Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, near Paris. Originally a mass-market car maker with relatively straightforward designs, Citroën shocked the world in 1934 with the innovative Traction Avant, the world's first mass-production front wheel drive car.

Three gorges dam.

This is the biggest dam in the world. It´s in the river Yangtse, in China.

Explain what raw materials are used to produce …

-The shoes are made of skin, rubber or material, for example.
-The chairs are made of wood or plastic.
-The juice is made of fruit.
-The jewels are made of gold, silver, diamonds, pearls, ruby...
-The keys are made of iron.
-The thermometers are made of mercury, alcohol...
-The windows are made of PVC, aluminium, wood...
-The doors are made of wood, aluminium, PVC...
-The notebooks are made of paper and iron.
-The sweaters are made of material, wool, cotton...
-The oil are made of oil.

JOIN COLUMNS

1.Solar : e. Energy from sunlight is captured in solar panels and converted into electricity. Advantages: potentially infinite energy supply. Disadvantages : manufacture and implementation of solar panels can be costly.

2. Wind : a. wind turbines (modern windmills) turn wind energy into electricity. Advantages : potentially infinite energy supply. Disadvantages : manufacture and implementation of wind farms can be costly.

3.Tidal : f. the movement of sea water in and out drives turbines. Advantages : a lot of energy is generated this way. Disadvantages : construction can be costly. Maybe opposed by local or enviromental groups.

4.Geothermal : b. it is possible to use heat from under the earth´s surface in volcanic regions. Steam can be used for heating or to power turbines creating electricity. Advantages : potentially infinite energy suplly. It is used successfully in some countries, such as New Zeland. Disadvantages : can be expensive to set up. Only works in areas of volcanic activity.

5.Hydro-electric power (HEP) : c. energy hamesed from the movement of water through rivers, lakes and dams. Advantages : creates water reserves as well as energy supllies. Disadvantages : costly to build. They can cause the flooding of surrounding communities and landscapes. Dams have major acological impacts.

6.Biomasa : d. an organic material which can be burnt to provide energy (heat or electricity). Advantages : it is a cheap source of energy. Disadvantages : when burnt, it gives off atmospheric pollutants, including greenhouse gases.