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Get a global
perspective, develop online skills, learn and contribute to bridge the digital
divide!
Beginners will find links for developing
basic skills. Advanced students are guided to selected online
exercises and to links of international organisations and to sites
that are dedicated to one-world topics.
Entrance
for Students with Pass
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The Earth
One World
Our Responsibility
World
News
CNN
Daily (Video and text)
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Useful Links:
Online
Dictionary - First Choice:
More Online Dictionaries
New York Times Learning Network
Free Translation.com
Not so
useful, but fun:
Test your reflexes
Listen to music -from Harmoniemusik.net
(You need an MP3 player - download here)
Look at pictures: Wacker Art
- a great German web-site, partly in English
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Web Sites for Students of English as
a Second Language
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Spotlight
English lessons and tests - all free
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Online Learning:
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Selected exercises
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Beginners:
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Irregular verbs 1 2 3 4
(From The Internet TESL Journal's Self-Study Quizzes for ESL
Students.
Englische Grammatik online von ego4u
Englisch für
Wiedereinsteiger - 10 Lektionen
(kostenlos von ego4u)
Letter Writing
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Intermediate
Interesting
Reading:
Interesting
Listening:
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Let`s learn good English online
(Ministry of Information and BBC Singapore)
Energy-Quest - great site by
the California Energy Commission.
Voice of America
in Special English
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Advanced learners:
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Klaus F.
Maas: Gerund - a survey
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For students of
business English:
Some exercisese with "hot
potatoe"
(by
Khoroshukhina and Iakovleva,
2W English, SoSe 2002)
- 3 short text comprehension exercises
- 3 short translation exercises
- crossword puzzle -
topic: house savings plan
Grammar and writing
Vocabulary Testing
Etymologic! "The toughest word game on the
web" (Show your teacher how little he/she knows!)
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Developing a Global Perspective
I.
International Organisations
In order to develop a global
perspective, it will be helpful to gain a basic understanding of what some
important international organisations are doing and how they are
defining their tasks.
1. Let us begin
with the United Nations
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a) We
suggest that you
read the preliminary
remarks of its charter:
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Charter of the United Nations
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b)
Learn about the UN on its
homepage:
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About the UN
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c)
Some UN organisations are
especially dedicated to helping
developing countries.
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Food
and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
3 Lessons: Fighting Minds -Fighting Hunger
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2.
Five important international
organisations are:
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a)
The Organisation for
economic cooperation
and development:
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b)
World Trade Organisation:
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What is the WTO?
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c)
And the World Bank.
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World Bank
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d)
Oil Producing Countries
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OPEC
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e)
European Free Trade Association
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f)
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
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NATO
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II. The world`s
north-south
gap and the need
to share information |