USA

 

Read the text in the supplement - it will provide necessary information and should inspire your individual long turn talk.

 

Imagine the following situation: Excursion at University

 

Individual Long Turn                                                                                                4-5 min

 

You have studied at the University of Natural Resources and Life Science, Vienna (BOKU) and you are an assistant professor there. For your students you are planning a two weeks agricultural excursion to the USA. What do you want to tell them about - what do you want to show them in this beautiful country. For your first meeting you give a short introduction:

 

•     USA (people, landscape, politis, problems, future perspective, Outline your plans for this excursion (detailed plan of your trip)

•         Inform your students about the focus of your trip

•         Paris Climate Treaty 

•         Outline possible solutions to save our world

 

Paired Activity                                                                                                           8-10 min.

 

After the presentation you go to a café with your students. There you talk with an Irish student about the excursion. You converse about following topics:

 

•         problems of politics, discrimination, agriculture facing climate change

•         talk about topics like economy and fair trade

•         the increasing importance of energy saving and renewable energies

•         you hypothesise about the consequences of the election