UNIT 1 POPULATION AND IMMIGRATION

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plainly, simply, matter-of-factly? What kinds of description does the author use? Are his adjectives glowing and
vivid or are they calm and bland? How does the author’s manner of description, and thus his attitude, change from
character to character? Are there particular images that seem to point to a particular attitude on the writer’s part?
Does the characters’ situation or setting relate to or reflect the story’s tone?
Apply the Strategy
Key for Reference
The purpose of the following Reading 1 is to explain the challenges that immigrants may face and to point
out the great contributions that immigrants make to the country to which they moved.
Try to figure out the author’s attitude toward some specific aspects related to immigration. Fill in the
chart with a check“√”for each choice you make.
People emigrate for financial reasons.
Statement
Immigrants have taken part in building growing nations such as Australia,
Canada, and the United States.
Many immigrants may find that their credentials are worthless once they
leave their homeland.
Immigration often raises concerns in the country that immigrants hope to
make their new homes.
People immigrate because they hope for a better future for their children
and a higher standard of living for their family.
A new wave of immigrants may seem to be too foreign, not sharing in the
same societal values, ideals, and customs as others in the new homeland.
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Language for Reference
The following words, phrases, and sentence patterns are closely related to the topic of “Population and
Immigration,” and help Ss familiarize themselves with the topic quickly.
1) In some cases, people have had little or no choice of whether or not to emigrate.
2) Such discrimination and poor treatment of immigrants is an all too common story.
3) to meet the standards of...
4) to fail to embrace the opportunities and advantages of...
5) to view as a senseless conflict
6) to migrate to growing nations such as...
7) to escape starvation or war
8) Immigration raises concerns that...
9) to take the initiative to do...
10) These young people are different in many ways from...
11) in between
12) to fall into this category