Meeting 13: Preparation for the Global Issues Mini Conference

Procedures for Global Issues Mini Conference

Today, July 15, each group will prepare for their mini-presentation.

Next week, July 21, we will make 5 new groups of 5 people. The success of this meeting will depend on EVERY MMCE member attending. One absent member will affect the discussion. Each new group will consist of representatives from the other groups. The representatives will take turns presenting about their global issue. Each representative has 28 minutes to present and the mini conference will last for about 2 meetings. The content of your presentation will be based on the Global Issues in English textbook. An outline of your presentation is written below.

1 Topic Introduction: Briefly introduce your topic by asking one of the conversation questions
2 Pre-presentation activity: Ask a factual question, have your listeners complete a graph, or read the profile
3 Helpful Words: Quiz people on the new words. (5 minutes)
4. My Global Issue: Read the information about your global issue and then ask 5 – 8 questions about it to the other group members. (10 minutes) You can ask the questions before or after your presentaion. Listeners: If you do not understand something you can ask during the presentation!
5. Post-presentation activity: Discussion- Discuss the following (5 minutes)
- Do you have any questions about the presentation, please ask!
- Did anything surprise you about the presentation? What? Did this presentation change your thinking in any way, how so?
- How does this problem affect you?
- Are you doing anything (unintentionally) to cause this problem? What?

6. Solution: Let’s brain storm things that we can do to make this problem better. (5 minutes)

At the ending of the second meeting, each base group will gather again and share what was said in 4 and 5.