First Listening
Please listen to a short passage carefully and prepare to answer some questions.
Students all over the world dream of what will happen in their future. Many hope to travel abroad where they can both use their education and earn a good salary. Large, modern countries like England and America welcome such graduates, making it easy for them to enter the country and easy for them to find good jobs. Are such countries being generous, or are these opportunities some kind of international crime? Are the students who go overseas “lucky”, or are they being “bad citizens”? Our first reading was written by a man from India. He discusses what happens “back home” as a developing nation’s best minds leave to look for a better life. Finally, he suggests that technology companies (who employ many of these foreign graduates) should do something to help the developing world.
Second Listening
Listen to the tape again. Then answer the following questions with your own experiences.
1. Why do you think big countries and big companies offer jobs to people from abroad?
2. One of your friends wants to accept a job overseas. What advice would you give him/her?
3. If a company hires many people from a different country, does it have any responsibilities toward that country? Explain your answer.
