GLOBAL ISSUES
The topic of Global Issues explores those issues that adversely affect the global community and environment, such as political and economic crises, environmental issues and social issues.
Students will be offered opportunities to communicate about Global Issues, by looking at examples of personal, local, national and global interest in a range of subtopics:
- Aid organizations/Charities
- Energy
- Human rights
- Migration: immigration, refugees
- Peace and war
- Population
- Poverty
- Terrorism
By being exposed to a variety of text types in relation to Global issues, students will be challenged to compare the target language and culture(s) to other languages and cultures, as well as to other disciplinary areas in the DP.
Through a variety of subtopics, students will also be invited/prompted to answer a range of questions in the context of the study of global issues, like the following:
- What can I do to help the environment?
- How do my surroundings affect the way I live?
- What can I do to make the world a better place?
- What opportunities do we have at global level to help create a sustainable world?
