Student gives a sort of presentation on the issue as she has a fair amount of knowledge on it
Discuss.
Visual support of
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/07/23/weekinreview/20060723_MIDEAST_GRAPHIC.jpg
and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/30/middle-east-explained_n_6056786.html
Discuss, click on various countries, look at vocabulary, review pronunciation of countries and nationalities,etc.
5 Reasons why Middle East in crisis video. Bbc Newsnight
elicit potential ideas. Ask them to focus on the key idea of each of the reasons presented. Warn about complexitiy of issue and language.
watch video one time
discuss
watch a second time, with cues (phrases), pause and play, check understanding, replay, etc. Help them learn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjgfnS7qKCI
Follow up after discussion, writing the ideas of the video in their own words, transcribing bits of it using the phrases as cues, listing collocations, etc.
Phrases (in a Word doc):
Discuss, click on various countries, look at vocabulary, review pronunciation of countries and nationalities,etc.
5 Reasons why Middle East in crisis video. Bbc Newsnight
elicit potential ideas. Ask them to focus on the key idea of each of the reasons presented. Warn about complexitiy of issue and language.
watch video one time
discuss
watch a second time, with cues (phrases), pause and play, check understanding, replay, etc. Help them learn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjgfnS7qKCI
Follow up after discussion, writing the ideas of the video in their own words, transcribing bits of it using the phrases as cues, listing collocations, etc.
Phrases (in a Word doc):
- 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.
- What countries seem to be involved?
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 shear 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 going 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
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