4B	My country and the world community: the United Nations Organisation

Dear students,

you have learnt about the state systems and political profiles of Belarus, the UK and the USA. Probably, as a student of humanities, you are aware about major international organizations and their functioning. Our country is a UN member and cooperates with it actively. In this unit you will learn about the origins, goals and structure of the United Nations (UN), its activities in Belarus, its programs, and how all different parts of the UN work together to improve the lives of males, females and children all over the world.

Also let us proceed with enhancing your presentation skills: here we are offering to study posters as an effective visual communications tool. Preparing and making a poster presentation would be useful for your future professional activities most probably.

Development of translation skills cannot be neglected, as translation is one of the widely applicable instruments in business and research careers.

So, in Section B you will practice in different activities developing the above mentioned skills. Good luck!

Listen, read and talk about...

• the United Nations Organisation and its parts

• UN’s activities

• UN’s functioning in your country

Learn how to...

• make posters

• participate in a poster presentation

• determine key words

Practice in ...

• poster-making

• poster-presentation

• finding key-words

• round-table discussion

• translating

Revise...

• the gerund, the participle

 Searching for ideas: Brainstorming

International cooperation is one of those activities we all assume to be of undoubtedly worth, always good, with important economic, scientific, and political benefits. What could be more appropriate in this age of growing integration of national economies, global issues, and tighter resource constraints than the idea that international cooperation is a valuable and welcome phenomenon? International Cooperation works to enhance multilateral responses to global problems, including: conflict, humanitarian crises, and recovery; international security challenges, weapons proliferation and the changing balance of power; resource scarcity and climate change.

1.  Let’s think what international cooperation is: where, with whom, and how it can take place. Create a mind map of the topic “International cooperation of my country”, developing each arrow direction with particular ideas, and adding new ones, if necessary.

International Cooperation of my Country With whom? Where?

In What way? how?

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An international organization is an organization with an international membership, scope, or presence.

he technique of Mind-mapping is described in Appendix 1.

2. What international organizations do you know?

1. Match the organization with its acronym:

the UN	European Union
the OSCE	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
the CoE	United Nations
the WHO	Council of Europe
the EU	World Trade Organisation
the WTO	World Health Organisation
the UNESCO	Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe

2. The Republic of Belarus is a member of a number of international organizations, what are they? Tick the right variants.

BELARUS	CIS - the Commonwealth of Independent States
	IAEA - the International Atomic Energy Agency
	UN - the United Nations
	WHO - the World Health Organization
	WB - the World Bank
	EU - the European Union
	EurAsEC - the Eurasian Economic Community
	CSTO - the Collective Security Treaty Organization

An international organization is an organization, but rather than having people as members, they have individual countries as members. International organizations are active in more than one country. These organizations can not command countries and citizens in a way a government can, but they do make rules that put limit on what governments can do.

3. Fill in the gaps, calling the organisations mentioned in b).

1. The … is a regional organization whose participating countries are former Soviet Republics, formed during the breakup of the Soviet Union.

2. The … is the world's center of cooperation in the nuclear field. The Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote safe, secure and peaceful nuclear technologies

3. … is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. It provides leadership on matters critical to health and engaging in partnerships where joint action is needed, monitoring the health situation and assessing health trends.

4. The … is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. It comprises two institutions managed by 188 member countries: the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA).

5. The … is an intergovernmental military alliance which was signed on 15 May 1992. On 7 October 2002, the Presidents of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan signed a charter in Tashkent founding it.

 personal vocabulary Building