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| Geneva: A New Beginning / Женева: новое начало |
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(для выполнения этого задания сохраните и распечатайте изображение выше)
The world’s leaders are going to have a large conference to discuss most of the world’s problems. You are members of the planning committee. You must decide the following:
1. Where will the leader from each country sit? (Friends or enemies should not sit beside each other.)
2. What will the leaders discuss?
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| Decide and Write
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1. Leaders from the following countries will come. Write each country’s name at a place around the conference table (in order to do the task, please, download and print the image above).
Iran
Sweden
Algeria
Germany
India
Japan
Libya
Iraq
Israel
France
North Korea
Nigeria
South Africa
Mexico
Cuba
China
Central African Rep.
Syria
Egypt
South Korea
Brazil
Pakistan
United Kingdom
Afghanistan
Turkey
Russia
The USA
2. Rank these problems from 1 (most important) to 11 (least important):
_ air and water pollution
_ trade policies
_ Arab-Israeli problem
_ nuclear weapons
_ AIDS
_ debt of developing and developed countries
_ shortage of food
_ gap between rich and poor people
_ еconomic crisis
_ the Arab Spring
_ energy and oil prices
3. Write down six more important problems in the world (the leaders at the meeting will also discuss these problems):
Problem 1.
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Problem 2.
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Problem 3.
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Problem 4.
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Problem 5.
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Problem 6.
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| Extend
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1. What do you think is the world’s biggest problem?
2. How can the United Nations stop countries such as the U.K., China, France, the U.S.A., and Russia from making nuclear weapons?
3. Imagine that all the world is one country and that you are the president. What is the first thing you would do?
4. Do you think that wars will ever stop?
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