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Avtividad 7 B: Business Communication.

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  Business Communication Actividad 7 "B".  I think that globalization has done a lot of amazing things to the students, I can remember how my mom usually tells me that when they need to do research or communicate with someone else was hard. And I also think about the TV show “Las chicas del cable” if we are talking about technology and communications. There is no doubt that globalization did a lot of positive things to everyone, economically Mexico has been growing a lot because of the car industry, and the car industry is here because of globalization. It is easier to travel thanks to the politics created, even commerce is growing so fast. I mean, as I said before it also has contras, but even if we don’t totally agree with globalization is something that is in our lives, and we can’t do anything against that instead of accepting and trying to be better. As an International Trade student, I must be grateful for globalization, and actually, I am. Without globalization, with...

Actividad 7: Business Communication.

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  Business Communication   Actividad 7   Study the 7 events in the table and decide which of the following aspects of globalization the event illustrates: economic, informational, cultural, or political . The first one has been done for you as an example. You have to paste this activity on your blog and compare your answers with FOUR of your classmates. Discuss your finding by asking them about the reason for their decisions.   Include a screenshot of those discussions in this document. Events Aspect of globalization Disneyland, the American theme park, has been set up in Hong Kong, Japan, and France. economic The parts of a car come from all over the world: Germany, Japan, Korea etc. and the car is assembled in the U.S. economic Businesses are operated with many satellite locations or call centers in other parts of the world to answer questions in another: for example, someone in In...

Actividad 6: Business Communication

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Business Communication Actividad 6   Globalization 1. Has globalization made the world a better or a worse place? What would the world be like with no globalisation?  2. Has globalization affected all countries equally?  3. Which countries are taking advantage of globalisation to influence the world?  4. How has globalisation affected living standards around the world? What about jobs?  5. What effect has globalisation had on the environment? 6. Is globalisation to blame for many of the problems the world is facing today or is it the solution to these problems? 7. Will globalisation lead to more or less conflict in the world? Why? 8. Will the world be more or less globalised in the future? Why?

Actividad 5: Business Communication

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Business Communication Actividad 5 Financial System What is Finance? As I read somewhere else, finance could be described as the management of money and it includes activities like investing, borrowing, saving, and forecasting.  What is the Financial System?   I can describe a financial system as a network of financial institutions, an instrument like insurance companies, stock exchanges, and investment banks that work together to exchange and transfer capital from one place to another.  What are the functions of a financial system? Deals with the financial transactions and the exchange of money between savers, investors, lenders, and borrowers. Those are made of different intricate and complex models that link financial institutions and markets to provide financial services. Provides a payment system for the exchange of goods and services.  Provides the mechanism to pull the funds in terms of household savings to corporate investments. Provides the financial capita...

Actividad 4: Business Communication

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  Business Communication Actividad 4.  What does Forex stand for?  Forex is an abbreviation for foreign exchange. What does Forex refer to? As I could remember from my economy class, it is the value of one currency relative to another; Like Euros into Mexican Pesos.  What is Forex trading? Is a kind of virtual market where everyone with or without experience can buy stock values, we need to remember that in some countries forex trading is almost completely unregulated.   What does the Forex trading market refer to? The foreign exchange market is where currencies are traded. How does the foreign exchange work? It can be as simple as changing one currency for another. But it can also become a game of chance where we seek to invest and make a profit. What do people trade? International currencies.  How do people trade? First they need to select a currency pair, remember we are exchanging the value of one currency to another, and the most important part is to ...

Actividad 3: Business Communication

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  Business Communication Actividad 3.  How are money and currency defined? Money is defined as a tool for trading your time. It is a container to store your economic energy until you are ready to deploy it  Currency is defined as a deceitful imposter that is stealing your two most valuable assets, our time, and our freedom.  What are the differences between currency and money?  As I understand, the currency is the instrument of exchange and it could be whatever as Egyptians used gold and silver as a way to exchange 5000 thousand years ago. We could say that they were the pioneers of the currency. And money  And money is a unified method of exchange for goods and services, we don't need to guess their value like gold or silver. We know that 10 dollars are equivalent to 10 dollars. What are their most important characteristics? Currency: Medium of exchange, A unit of account, Durable, Divisible, Portable, Fungible.  Money: Are all the same things (Medi...

Actividad 2: Business Communication

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  Business Communication Actividad 2 Improving Communication Listening:       • Does he think technology makes good communication easier? "Communication is about meaning", He said that technology could be positive, and create a good channel to connect with people around us but also the fact that can create problems eventually.       • What four key points does Alastair make about communication? 1. The first key point is that people have limited attention, so our way to communicate needs to be easy to understand as possible.  2. Communication is about meaning.  3. Miscommunication is the biggest problem among companies.  4. It has to contain emotion, and it would work better.  Why it communicates well? Amazon, to start is one of the companies I admire because they build a big empire. They have been using technology on their side, as a perfect way to connect with their clients. And as we know, clients are in the firs...