Week 8: Friday's Current Events

Today we will start with a ...
Economic QUIZ_ on Exittix.com
Afterwards... we will watch Flocabulary's The Week in Rap (including last week's) and then you will read articles related to global economics based on a region of the world:
You will read one of the following:

• Africa: Microsoft program focuses on helping businesses in Africa
• Latin America: Along with crops, Farmers raise New Hopes for Trade with Cuba
• North America: Defending their ways of life, tribes face off over coal mine
• North America: Puerto Rico's debt and drought drive the masses to move to U.S. mainland
• Middle East: More Saudi women slowly find jobs in their strict Muslim society
• Middle East: Palestinian chefs chafe at provincial culture as Israeli food scene rises
• Europe: Echoes of 1953: Should Greece get the same debt deal Germany got?
• North/Central Asia: Disney wants its Shanghai park to look Chinese
• Southeast Asia: In Myanmar, bike sidecars give people a cheap ticket to ride
• Oceania & Pacific Islands: Ocean's riches lure deep-sea miners, but scientists urge caution

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