• Do you give money to homeless people?

• Why yes? Why no? If yes, when do you do it? Under what circumstances do you give?

• Let’s talk with our classmates about this issue?

• Do you think the government does enough to solve this problem?

• Which nations/countries are the most charitable? Which people give the most to charities? Is it French people? Chinese people? American people? Spanish people?

• Why do some groups of people give more than others?

• Let’s first debate what we think the answer is and …and then we’ll find out!

• First… where is Myanmar (before it was called “Burma”)

• Do people in the United Kingdom (Britain) give more than people in Ireland? What do you think? Let’s debate this with the people who are sitting at our table with us …

• Do Canadian people give more time or money to charity than people in Burma/Myanmar?

• Burma/Myanmar• First… where is Myanmar (before it was called “Burma”)? What is their

religion? How many people live in Myanmar/Burma (what is the population of Burma?)

• What is the average per capita income in Burma?

• Do these results surprise you?

• What is “giving behavior”? If you give some of your time to children by teaching them math, is that charity work? If you give a little money to a homeless man or woman on the street is that charity?

• Now, let’s take a look at the chart below. It represents statistics from a different source.

• Why do the results appear to be so different? What values were measured? Does this second set of statistics consider “giving behavior” in general or only just exact monetary contributions/gifts?

• What do you think?

Strange Hotel Rooms

• Would you like to stay in any of the hotel rooms below?

• What does each remind you of? What do you think of when you look at these hotel rooms? How much extra would you pay to stay there?

• Now, let’s take a look at the chart below. It represents statistics from a different source.

• Why do the results appear to be so different? What values were measured? Does this second set of statistics consider “giving behavior” in general or only just exact monetary contributions/gifts?

• What do you think?

• Salt Lake City is the capital of Utah (Utah is a state 犹他州 ) . Why do people who live in Utah give the most money to charity? Who lives in that state? Is that state famous for being the home of a very strict form of Christianity? Why are Utah people on average wealthier and more educated than other Americans?

• Who are these people? What companies did they found/create?• Which ones gave the most to charity in the year 2013? (in a moment we are going to look at

statistics for the year 2013 … sorry it is only one year … but let’s guess which gave the most to charity in those years…..

What is “philanthropy”?

It just means to give money to charity.

Can Mark Zuckerberg speak some Chinese?

Is his wife Priscilla Chan full Chinese or half Chinese?

Did her ancestors immigrate to Vietnam？

Mark and his wife got married in 2012. He studied Chinese before coming on a visit to Beijing?

This is a cross-cultural marriage. Will there be cultural problems?

Why did she marry him? What was in her mind? Let’s discuss it with our classmates …..

• To the right you can see the logos of a few very popular “social networking” websites. Some of them have the name of the website included in the logo. Others do not.

• What are the names of these sites?• How do people use them?• What could businesses do with

them?

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• Let’s try to guess:

• Which of these are most important to businesses?

• Which brands (like coca cola, Apple, etc..) are on these sites?

www.facebook.com

www.twitter.com

www.youtube.com

www.instagram.com

www.pinterest.com

www.tumblr.com

• If a company puts lots of videos on Youtube.com how can that help them sell products?• Do you know any Chinese companies which do this? Do they want to introduce themselves

to foreigners?

• The United States has many international trade (国际贸易） partners. Some of them include France, China, Brazil and others. But which are America’s biggest trade partners? That is: which countries do the most business with the United states (either imports or

exports .. It doesn’t matter) ? Let’s try to guess the top five: • 1: ________ 2: ________ 3: _________ 4:___________ 5: __________

• Do these results surprise you? What do you think about these figures?

• What are the biggest oil companies in the world?• What countries do those companies come from?

• Do these results surprise you? What do you think about these figures?

• Saudi Arabia …. Russia ….. Iran …..