Unit 8: Brain Drain Vocabulary - Teachers : M. EL KADAOUI 2017/2018 MoroccoEnglish.

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Brain drain / Human capital  Invest ‫يستثمر‬ Exercise 1: Fill in the gaps with the right words :
flight ‫هجرة االدمغت‬  Life conditions developing - skilled – conditions – drain – flight – salaries – home – developed -qualified
 Political stability ‫ظروف العيش‬ Brain _______________ occurs when _______________ countries receive _______________
‫االستقرار السياسي‬  Scholar ‫عالم‬ people.
 Social unrest  Research ‫بحج‬ A lot of _______________ countries are facing the challenge of human capital _______________.
‫الجتماعيت االضطراباث‬  Researcher ‫باحج‬ One way to deal with this problem is to provide high _______________ and good working
 Conflict ‫نزاع‬  Freedom of speech _______________ for highly _______________ people to keep them in their _______________
country.
‫حريت التعبير‬
 Developing country  Corruption ‫فساد‬ Exercise 2 : Choose the right words to complete the following paragraphs :
‫دولت ناميت‬  Research Facilities departure – Africa – home – asylum – individual freedoms – research facilities – doctors
 Developed country ‫مراكز البحىث‬ and engineers – low – researchers - jobless
‫دولت متقدمت‬
 Receiving country  Funds ‫اعتماد مالي‬ 1.Dr. El Mandjra mentioned that more than 700 Moroccan _______________ at the doctoral
‫البلد المستقبل‬  Equipment ‫تجهيزاث‬ level and above work in the French National Center for Research, as a result of lack of
 Sending country  Tools ‫أدواث‬ research funds and __________________ backhome.
‫البلد المرسل‬  Wage ‫أجرة‬
 Third World  Salary ‫راتب‬ 2.According to the official statistics ___________________ wages and the absence of
‫العالم الثالج‬  Better pay ‫تحسين االجىر‬ suitabke working conditions lead to the __________________ of hundreds of
Highly-qualified  Prosperous ‫مزدهر‬ _____________________ Asian countries and _________________ towards the United
‫ذو تأهيل ودرجت عاليت من الكفاءة‬  Living standards States or Europe, which means a big loss of ___________________ and experienced
 Skilled ‫ماهر و متمكن‬ ‫مستىياث العيش‬ manpower for the __________________ countries.
 Intellectual ‫مثقف‬  Manpower ‫القىة العاملت‬
 Push factors ‫عىامل دافعت‬  Asylum ‫اللجىء‬ 3.Because of political and military conflicts in the region, mani Iraqi and Syrian scientists and
 Pull factors ‫عىامل جاذبت‬  Seek Asylum ‫طلب اللجىء‬ intellectuals have become ______________refugees. Now some of them are seeking political
 Homesick‫الغربت و حنين الىطن‬ ___________________, most favorably in European countries where they can enjoy more
 Abroad ‫خارج البلد‬ _________________ and political stability.
Collocations: Match each words with the appropriate item to make correct collocations:
Assistance – instability – transfers – discrimination – gain – opportunities – resources – education – rate – countries – money – a dream – the gap – a living -
homesick
Racial _____________ Money _____________ Higher ____________ Technical ______________ Fulfil _____________
Brain ______________ Rapid ____________ Human ____________ Bridge ________________ Squander ____________
Political _____________ Job _______________ Host _______________ Earn _______________ Feel ____________