GLADE - Learning Materials

The purpose of this activity is for you to consider more of the ways in which the world is becoming increasingly interdependent. There are opportunities:

	to practice the skill of catergorisation
	to work collaboratively
	to choose a topic which interests you, plan and write a newspaper article on that topic
	to practice research skills.

Working on your own

Study the NEWSPAPER HEADLINES (all taken from newspapers and magazines 1995-97). Decide what you think each one was about - some are fairly obvious, with others you will only be able to make suggestions.

Can you give each of these stories a category label according to what kind of global linking it might illustrate? For example, one is obviously to do with communications. (Some may fall into more than one category.) Make a list of all your categories. Can you add more categories for ways in which people around the world are linked, but which are not represented by these headlines?

If your course requires you to write an extended piece of work, it would be particularly useful to bear these kinds of categories in mind - both the ones used in these materials and ones you came up with yourself. You may well find that some of them particulary interest you or throw up questions to which you would like to find answers.

Choose one of the headlines and write or word process a newspaper article to go under it. (Decide what kind of newspaper it is and write in the appropriate style.) You may know exactly what the headline originally referred to, in which case, you can research the event and write about it. Alternatively, you can write about anything which would fit the title. Even if you write something fictitious, it should be based on reality. For example, you may not know what the meeting of the youth of the world in Cairo was about, but what could its subject have been? What concerns young people enough to attend an international meeting? How could it have come about? Who would have organised it? Why Cairo? Remember that the focus of this unit is global interdependence so your article should feature links between countries.