Diagnostic Language Test and follow-up

In order to have nice feeling and appeal with university courses, it is important understand and be confident with all the situation we match with. Juggling with the right vocabulary needed to follow lession, write works with the appropriate style and structures are the most important skills to play with. I will try to do the science task, the third one, from http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=302454 .
All my answers have been right, after a check, in the task n°1 about Pollution. Reorganising my ideas re-paraphrsing has been a bit more difficult without the vocabulary. Synonyms and acronyms need to strenghten. In the second task, note n°3 is the most effective among the others. I have rewrite in my own word the Essay about Whose health it is anyway. I cannot judge it...sorry! I will write it. The mean of the sixth part has been clear, even if I have make some mistakes. The assessment n°7 has been very tricky: it has took me long time to do it with lots of errors.
Summarising:
1) Can I read and understand academic couse books and materials? A
2) Can I identify (and make notes on) the main points from written and spoken material? A
3) Can I express concepts and ideas in my own words? B
4) Can I organise my writing so that the meaning of my argument is clear? B
5) Can I use correct grammar, punctuation and spelling? A

This tutorial has been massively useful because it has make me think about lots of other things to brush up all over again!!!
Hence, bye.

Reith Lecture - Anthony Giddens

Anthony Giddens, in his lecture on BBC Radio 4, gives an overview about the revolution that globalisation has been producing throughout the world.
Globalisation means international trades, wide range of goods and services, and moreover, hight level of finance and capital flows. However, it includes not only economical concerns, but also technological, political and cultural ones.
The input of this revolution has been given by the birth of the electronic way of communication. He says: " When the image Nelson Mandela maybe is more familiar to us then the face of our neighbour, something has changed in the nature of our everyday experience".
Owing to improvements in the speed of sharing news, travelling, and communicating, globalisation has modified people's attidudes and behaviours in "the little" as well as the Earth: family speaks about today's happenings and facts. On the other hand, globalisation is the reason for the revival of cultural identities. Local nationalism spring up as a response to these cosmopolitan tendencies.
However, this is not all flowers! There are so many drawbacks deriving from globalisation. The share of the poorest fifth of the world's population is dropping, whereas the portion taken by the richest fifth is rising. Economy must be found on stabil criteria. Nowadays, it is possible destabilize the world just with couple of mouse clicks.
Prof. Giddens finds on protectionism a point for a new growth for some under-developed countries. There is the need of a reform within powerful nations in order to carry out tasks they are called to perform. We need equity.