BBC Awards

You have probably heard about the BBC Awards from your teacher, but still we briefly want to tell you something more about it.

The BBC-GNE Young Writers and Public Speaking Awards are organised by the BBC in partnership with the Netherlands-England Society (GNE).

Learning languages is hard work and deserves to be rewarded. Young people who strive to achieve excellence in English and make active use of the English language, the BBC-GNE Young Writers and Public Speaking Awards give the opportunity to show their creativity and to express their opinions.

The topics for the BBC-GNE Awards 2008 concern youth culture/digital world, history, personal experience, the environment, language and integration.

The topics are:

• ‘Second life’: An Escape from Reality
• History – A Lesson for the Future
• The wonder in your world
• Carbon footprints: booming economies also have the right to leave one
• Language is a barrier to integration
• The 2008 ESU topic: New Horizons, New Frontiers
  

The two BBC Awards (for young people between 16 and 20 years old) form a common focus for developing effective English language skills. Participation will enhance their communication skills in English. It will help them to be more confident and to express themselves better. You will certainly benefit from it in later years.

> Read more about the Public Speaking Awards
> Read more about the Writers Awards