Middle East conflict, key players interactive map
Understanding the Middle East
Elicit or pre-teach:A rump state is the remnant of a once-larger state, left
with a reduced territory in the wake of secession, annexation, irredentism,
occupation, decolonization, or a successful coup d'état or revolution on part
of its former territory. Source:
Wordreference.com
Elicit info on the conflict, make notes on the board or paper
Elicit info on Islam if possible
As it's an advanced group I don't often pre-teach vocab. There are few words worth doing though for weaker advanced groups.
BBC Newsnight: 5 reasons why the ME is in crisis
The 5 reasons explaining why the Middle East is in Crisis are listed
clearly. Can you give a brief summary of each of them?
Pause and play, discuss meaning with others.
Up to reason 3:
How was the Middle East
formed?
When Europeans were there, was
the region as unstable as it is today?
Wha has ME failed in?
Islamism is the gateway
for...what?
Finish the sentence... The new
wave of Islamic politics is a threat.....
Arab springs are achieving
results
What’s the issue about borders?
What do Kurds want?
What’s the role of colonial
powers here?
How is Israel defined in point
3 (3.48)?
Who sells weapons to the
Middle east? (one word – you can expand)
Phrases to help students follow the video and learn words they might be unfamiliar with. In chronological order, from left to right.Also, some may be new words or unfamiliar to them. Check pronunciation.
Design sat on the
foundations Ottoman empire ministries that did provide be
in turmoil is
in crisis
chaos
caused by mutation in political Islam (0:40) first
point in understanding this.
Arab
regimes... failed on the security front prosperity absent of some form of channel get
involved Islamism as the only gateway ideologies
embodied caliphate sweep new
wave is a threat to elites and states
across the region
There’s-.....
Drop another western construct liberal democracy in the current caldron this so-called Arab springs is going nowhere
......Be
trumped by
the politics of identity old authoritarian ottoman model ruled by .... resilience
in the strong men swept away fragmentation has followed borders
coming into question erasure of border by Isis proclaims its new Kurds go in the act too pushing forward historic quest for statehood Libya in danger of fragmentation
ancient .... largely separate are states contrived...doomed leaders who aspire to
control some rump state state as a prime of identity state survived hangover of British rule 100-year argument about its existence and
borders conflict can inflame the
whole region
New alliances forces come into play outsiders are happy to power brokers regional players are key made itself the guardian of the Shia forming a power block the rump state of Iraq SA
champions...pouring resources into cash
?? cash a client of the Arab fighting
over control over the middle east the
US disengaging binary conflict Qatar
...Makes
its own rules too Take sides ally with the Saudi block
steer well clear deeply
worried turmoil likely
to stay that way for foreseeable future trouble of turning leading
to the birth of Al-Qaeda transnational
jihadi a charter
flight bite Europe specially hard
growing chaos in Libya
could raise energy prices hit
economic recovery refugees in Syria flee to airspaces becoming unsafe in big chunks of the region ungoverned space that is also opening
up in potential home for piracy, extremism
and perhaps even the next 9/11
follow up: use the phrases above to complete the sentence,
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