30 November 2011 / by Radmila Gurkova

EU and US Summit. Listen to our leaders speak english...

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We-eNqzmtEw

"Talks of a joint working group to explore how to enhance “untapped potential” of a ‘Transatlantic economic co-operation’ were high on the agenda this week as both US and EU leader’s held a bi-lateral trade talk at the White House with President Obama."

DEBATE

Are you concerned about the debt crisis or do you find it tiresome listening to people talk continually about Spain's debt and Europe's issues?

Are we to blame for overspending?

Would you accept help from other nations, such as the United States?

KEYWORDS

Word	Image	Definition	Example	Listen
Summit		the highest level of diplomatic or other governmental officials.	A summit conference.
Neighbour		a person or thing that is near another	one of our neighbour nations.
Eurozone		another name for Euroland	All European countries	Listen
Encourage		to inspire with courage, spirit, or confidence	One of the chief duties of a teacher is to encourage students.
Treaty		the formal document embodying such an international agreement.	The two tribes formed a treaty
Transatlantic		on or from the other side of the Atlantic	The boat sailed from the USA to the UK	Listen
Globalisation		worldwide integration and development	Globablization has resulted in the loss of some individual cultural identities.

EASY GRAMMAR

Topic: Formal Expressions Used in Meetings

Level: Easy to Medium

Task: Can you complete the expressions below with texts from the video?

Introducing a subject	Transition between elements	Concluding
Good morning, everybody.	Let me make two points: one on … and one on ...	Finally, I hope you (have a good visit).
I am very pleased to welcome you to ...	My first point regards… My second point regards …	Let me conclude…
Let me first thank you for your hospitality.	With regard to …	Thank you very much, everybody.
I very much appreciated our discussion here at the White House today.	I am happy to say that …

Topic: Word Formation

Level: Medium to Advanced

Task: Can you identify which words appear in the video? Can you extract more examples from the text?

Root	Prefix	Suffix 1	Suffix 2	Prefix and suffix
Sustain		sustainable	Sustainability
Like	Dislike	Likely	Likelihood	Unlikely
Think				Unthinkable
Accept		Acceptable		Unacceptable

Level: Advanced

Topic: Inversion

In formal language we often want to emphasize one idea over the rest in a sentence. We do it by placing the idea to emphasize first in the sentence.

Have a look at two possible ways of achieving this.

Using WHAT

What hasn’t changed though is the fundamental bonds that exist between the European union and the United States.

2. Using NOT SINCE

Not since the end of the Cold War has the world seen such a degree of transformation in global affairs.

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