1. Use your Mind Map, Vocabulary Map and Key Phrases from the exercises above and organise a round table: un’s aims and actions: are they relevant for our country?

The format of Round Table is described in Part 1, section 2B.

Enjoy the opportunity to express your ideas!

 preparing a poster-presentation

Posters are a special type of presentation. When well designed, they are not simply journal papers pasted onto boards. Rather, posters, when effectively designed, are something in between. As George Hess, Kathryn Tosney and Leon Liegel state in their work on poster presentations, an effective poster will help you ...

... engage colleagues in conversation

and

... get your main point(s) across to as many people as possible.

An effective poster is focused on a single message, graphic - lets graphs and images tell the story; uses text sparingly, and ordered - keeps the sequence well-ordered and obvious.

An effective poster operates on multiple levels as a source of information, a conversation starter, an advertisement of your work, as a summary of your work.

An effective poster is not just a standard research paper stuck to a board. A poster uses a different, visual grammar. It shows, not tells.

Many ineffective posters suffer from easy-to-fix problems, including objective(s) and main point(s) hard to find, text too small, poor graphics, poor organization

from Hess, G.R., K. Tosney, and L. Liegel. 2010. Creating Effective Poster Presentations. http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/NewSite/index.html

Would you read more about Poster-tips in Appendix 7 and watch “Effective Poster Presentations” by George H. Hess at

http://www.ncsu.edu/project/posters/NewSite/Resources.html

You can also watch Video Recording 10 Making an Academiс Research Poster using Power Point at

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqgjgwIXadA

The poster on the left is just one example of this visual tool. You can surf the Internet for more examples.

1.  Sum up the information on the United Nations from Tasks 2-3 and present it as:

a) a poster about the whole UN system.

Your Poster can have the following structure

1. Title and authors.

2. Logos.

3. Foundation facts.

4. Main purposes as defined by the Charter.

5. Spheres of interest.

6. Structure of the UN system: main bodies, their organization and responsibilities.

7. Acknowledgements

Video Recording 11 UN History might be helpful for your UNO poster.

b) a poster about the UNO activities in Belarus (in the group each student can be responsible for a part of the structure and the group-members will present the whole poster made of pieces in class.)

Your Poster can have the following structure

1. Programme title and poster authors.

2. Logos

3. UN body – running this program in Belarus.

4. Purposes

5. Implementation

6. Results

7. Acknowledgements.

You will find the materials on the UN programs in Belarus are in Task 3.

c) a poster about any international organization that Belarus is a member of.