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==Video //Hot, Flat, and Crowded// [] == media type="youtube" key="GtXS0WyqN8s" height="315" width="420"

**__Questions to the video__**
1. What’s the title of Thomas Friedman’s book? Why was it given this name?

2. What world trends do words “hot, flat and crowded” refer to?

3. What happens “when flat meets crowded”? What __consequence__ of this process is described by T.F.?

4. How much, according to the UN __estimates__, will the world population __increase__ between now and 2020? How can you account for this __estimated__ __dramatic__ __increase__? Will the growth __rate__ remain the same or __slow down__ after 2020?

5. Read the dates and numbers: July 20th 1953, 2.681 bn, 0.7 (ounces), 20,000 (metric tons), 9.2 bn, 60,000 (megawatts), 500 (megawatts). Watch the video again and say what they __refer to__?

__T. Friedman and his book__
__**//Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution—And How It Can Renew America //**__ =__Active vocabulary unit 10__=

__Describing a graph exercise__
=__Graphs showing the latest trends in Russia's economy (unemployment, house prices, inflation rates)__=

__Translation from Russian exercise__
**__How to solve the nation's unemployment problem __** TED talks - Longevity, how to live to be 100+ (edited) media type="youtube" key="dYxZluIilLo" height="315" width="420" UNIT 10: Supplementary READING