Topics

This page provides a place to start for your team's oral presentation.

In teams of 4 or 5 students, you should prepare a 12-15 minute presentation using slides (e.g., powerpoint).


 * Topic:** An issue in current international affairs (political, economic, environmental)


 * Resources:** Use at least three web-based resources - a video resource, an audio source, and a written text.


 * Orientation:** Choose an issue in your topic and take a position on this issue.

All team members should work together on the presentation, and each member must speak.

You will make a wiki to save links and preparatory work for this presentation. Your presentation will be recorded for feedback, and you can synchronise this recording with your slides to upload to your wiki.

Below are suggested topics and their links to resources. You may also propose an alternative, but please show your topic and resources to your teacher for approval.

|| @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxTw3EbUWKo&feature=related || @http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/8257766.stm ||
 * **TOPIC** || **Audio/video** || **Text** ||
 * 1. Global Warming - who's fault is it anyway?
 * 2. 2016 Olympics - did Rio de Janeiro really deserve to win the bid? || @http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympic_games/8282518.stm ||  ||
 *  3. Globalisation || @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A8Iv1rN08I || http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=4310 ||
 * 4. Charity work - more harm than good? ||  ||  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7747150.stm ||
 * 5. Would women have helped avert the Wall Street Crash? || http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112797898 ||  ||
 * 6. How fair is Fairtrade? ||  || @http://www.freetrade.org/node/523 ||
 * Children and the recession || @http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112636501 ||  ||
 * 7. The use of positive discrimination in employment ? ||  || @http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/topic_details.php?topicID=40 ||
 * 8. Could an ecological revolution resolve all our problems ? ||  || @http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-themes-global-warming.htm ||
 * 9. Low cost air companies, are they worth it ? ||  || @http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8297211.stm ||
 * 10. The production of genetically modified food ? || @http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7878000/7878443.stm ||  ||
 * 11.The overuse of packaging for food products ? ||  || @http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/working_lunch/3546199.stm ||
 * 12. For or against the practice of striking ? ||  || @http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8298169.stm ||