What happened at the recent APEC meeting?

• What does APEC stand for?• B level questions: Where do you if you want a business or visitor visa to the U.S.? Is getting

a business visa convenient or easy? Where is the headquarters of APEC?

• L and above level questions: Do you know anything about the recent APEC meeting? How about the discussions between Xi Jin Ping and Obama? Did they reach any agreements? What were they? Have you ever been to the US? Would you like to go there? Have you heard that it is easy or hard to get a temporary business/tourist/visitor visa to the US?

This is taken from a news website:“Under the visa deal, which will take effect on November 12, both countries

would extend the terms of multiple entry short-term tourist and business visas to 10 years from one year, the White House said in a statement accompanying Obama’s announcement. Student visas would be

extended to five years from one year.”

• APEC stands for “Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation”. It is a group of nations that have joined together to try to develop free trade and fair economic development.

• You need to go to a US consulate or embassy. It used to be rather difficult, but it is now getting easier. Xi Jin Ping and Obama agreed that both US citizens and Chinese citizens can get 10 year visas to the US and China now.

• The headquarters of APEC is in singapore look

• How many US consulates ( 领事馆） are in China? How many embassies （大使馆） ? Where are they? If there is more than one consulate, what areas does a particular consulate cover?

• Let’s try to guess ….. then we’ll look at a map …

US Embassy and 5 consulates in China; and the areas which each covers

• If you lived in Sichuan where would you need to go to get a business visa to the US? Guangzhou handles all “immigrant visas” for China. A “nonimmigrant visa” is one for a temporary stay in the US of any kind, even work. An “immigrant visa” is for people who will get a “green card” in the US after they arrive there. If I live in Xinjiang, and I want to visit the US for business, where do I need to go? And what if I were in Fujian? What about Hong Kong?

US Embassy and 5 consulates in China; and the areas which each covers

• If you live in Sichuan You need to go to the US consulate in Chengdu to apply for a nonimmigrant visa.

• If I live in Xinjiang and want a business visa to the US I need to go to Beijing.• If I live in Fujian I need to go to the US consulate in Guangzhou.• The US consulate in Hong Kong can provide both immigrant and

nonimmigrant visas to Hong Kong residents.

How

• Where do you think this is? What country? What are they doing? What is happening? Why are there clothes like that? What religion do those clothes come from?

• This students are listening to leaders in a legislature talk. This is in Iran. The clothes come from the religion Islam.

What are they doing? What is happening? Why are they trying to put those geese (singular a goose, plural: geese) into the boat? What country is this?

This is in Hamburg, Germany. They are trying to help the geese: they need to live on a river where there will be no ice

Operating system market share worldwide for desktop computers and laptop computers

• What is an operating system? What is “market share”? What do we mean when we say “Coca Cola has 65% market share worldwide”? Can you name the three most important operating systems for desktop computers & laptops ( 台式电脑 & 笔记本电脑）？ What operating system do you like best? What are these logos? Can you identify what you see below?

OS X is the name of Apple’s operating system for desktop computers and laptops (they have a separate operating system for phones and tablet computers ( 平板电脑） it is called iOS.

As you can see Microsoft’s “Windows” operating system is the most common throughout the world.

The “other” section is Linux. Most professional computer programmers prefer Linux or Apple for themselves. In fact most professional computer programmers are very angry at Microsoft. The linux logo is a penguin.

Now … let’s go on to phones and tablets …..

Operating system market share worldwide for phones & tablets

• Ok here it goes: Android is based on Linux. Linux is similar to Unix. Apple’s systems are based on Unix. In the world of phones and tablets: windows has been destroyed. Only apple and linux/unix based operating systems remain.

The History of Operating Systems that Come from UNIX

• In the early 1970’s (over forty years ago) the first UNIX systems were created. The two men on the left are Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie: they designed and created UNIX. Have you heard of the C programming language? Dennis Ritchie also created that; all of it, himself.

Operating system market share worldwide for phones & tablets

• So which operating systems control the phone and tablet markets? Let’s ask our partners using percentages .... Like ….

• I think Apple has 7% of the market ….etc.

Operating system market share worldwide for phones & tablets

Microsoft phone sales share in different countries

• Now let’s make some estimates about Microsoft’s phone sales in different markets…

• In America? • China?• Italy?• Here is a hint: France = 10.5% in the first quarter of 2014 • Japan?• Spain?• Great Britain?

• Let’s ask each other WHY as well: Do you really think microsoft phones are more popular in _______ than in ______?

• Which is less costly to produce: a phone with the android operating system or the microsoft mobile operating system? Why?

Microsoft phone sales share in different countries

• Would you like to travel to Finland? What would be some nice things to see or do in Finland? What might be some of the disadvantages?

• If you visited Finland, when would you go?

Go to the San Francisco Chinatown or the Seattle Chinatown

• How much of downtown Sanfrancisco commerical real-estate is owned by people from China or Taiwan?

• What do you think of what you see?

• Do you know these words: street sign, banner.

Go to the San Francisco Chinatown or the Seattle Chinatown

• How much of downtown Sanfrancisco commerical real-estate is owned by people from China or Taiwan?

• What do you think of what you see?

• Do you know these words: street sign, banner.

Go to a nice restaurant

• What kind of restaurants do you like to go to? What is your favorite food?• Do you know these words: chandelier, mash potatoes, gravy, a roll, napkin, tablecloth,

formal, to fry, fried chicken

Go to a library

• This library is very large and the old building is very interesting. There are many stone rooms and corridors. It is easy to find a quiet place where nobody is around you. It feels like you are going back to some ancient time.

• Do you know these words: stained glass window, staircase, architecture, gothic architecture, middle ages/dark ages