You
are a member of AI (Amnesty
International) and you organise a meeting with your friends. You watch the movie
“Lord of the Flies”, based on William
Golding´s novel. After watching the movie, you give a short talk. You want to
convince your friends to join the organisation to fight capital punishment
worldwide.
Give a short summary
of the text above and the famous book
“Lord of the Flies”. Which connections can you draw?Analyse the violation
of Human Rights today
Argue why it is so
important to become a member of AI
(Amnesty International)
Express your point of
views concerning other NGOs
TASK 2: Dialogue:
With
a colleague you discuss the situation of Human Rights. Consider and discuss the
aspects below:
migration and refugee
streams in Europe
possible solutions to
help the people in their home countries
Imagine the following situation: Presentation at
University
Individual Long Turn4-5 min
You
study at the Vienna University of
Economics and Business. Due to the international character of your studies
all lectures are held in English. In a seminar you have to introduce the topic.
Outline the difference
between advertising and propaganda
Suggest how good
advertising works
Describe which role
the new media play when it comes to manipulation
Paired Activity8-10 min.
After
your meeting you take some coffee with your fellow students. There you converse
about aspects like:
Advertising encourages your desire for consumer
goods, services and ideas using suggestive images and captions. However, the
motivation to buy what is advertised may stem from the belief promoted by what
propaganda is. Through advertising, propaganda influences you emotionally to
buy certain products, services and ideas. Advertisers use your latent desires
to be rich, better looking or more popular to "direct" your
purchasing habits. Propaganda is used by advertisers to influence consumer
spending by presenting what is "desirable."
Advertising
Advertising uses multimedia techniques to promote products, services and
ideas through a variety of different venues. Although mostly factually correct,
advertising is formatted to persuade its audience to try its wares. Advertising
permeates our culture in newspapers, magazines, the Internet, billboards,
television and shopping malls. Through sensational, graphic displays,
advertising promises consumers that using the products, services and ideas
presented will change their lives for the better. The exaggeration of the facts
in advertising is a technique used to influence the minds of consumers to
change their spending habits and generate revenue. Hyperbole is also used in
propaganda to actively influence opinions and social mood.
Propaganda
Advertising and propaganda are both powerful media tools that are often
hard to differentiate. Propaganda is similar to advertising in that it employs
the same multimedia formats in order to spread its message. However, unlike
advertising, propaganda does not try to encourage the sale of a product,
service or idea. Similar to a sales campaign, propaganda is a visual
presentation used to change public attitudes about a particular person or
subject. Propaganda that influences systems of education has the most lasting
effect.
Types of Advertising
Advertising has two main audiences: consumers and businesses.
Advertisers inform individuals and businesses what products, services and ideas
are available for purchase, their special features, price and location.
Advertisers preview new products, services and ideas through local, national
and international markets. Advertising permeates all aspects of urban
industrial society and has increasingly migrated to the Internet.
Types of Propaganda
Two of the most recognizable forms of propaganda are political and
religious. Political propaganda is especially evident at election time when
opposing candidates engage in "mud-slinging" campaigns in order to
damage each others' reputation and gain influence. Propaganda is considered one
of the most powerful arsenals in politics used to influence public opinion.
Religious propaganda comes in many forms and essentially plays heavily on an
individual's emotions, encouraging her to behave in a certain way. Other forms
of propaganda include presentations that promote sexuality, racism, drugs, and
healthcare and lifestyle choices. Propaganda can be positive when it is used to
encourage a healthy lifestyle, for example. Propaganda is disseminated to or by
individuals and businesses; ethnic, religious and political organizations; and
governments at all levels. Special interest groups by the thousands spread
propaganda about their particular causes.
You
are a member of Greenpeace and your
local Landjugend Organisation. Your
friends want to improve their English - so you organise a weekly evening about
several topics. This week you want to present the topic planned obsolescence. In your kick-off speech you are going to
address the following issues:
Imagine the following situation: Greenpeace
Initiative
Monologue
Describe how planned
obsolescence works and why the economy seems to need it
Outline how we can can
teach people in our throw-away society to think in a more sustainable way
What we can do to make
people aware of this topic
Dialogue
After
your presentation you talk to a visitor of the summit. In your conversation you
talk about the following topics:
why to buy sustainable
products
why it is better to
buy local products – where you know where it comes from - than products
from far away
why should your
friends also become a member of Greenpeace?
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