THREE-MINUTE STATEMENT
Making a short presentation may be even more challenging than making a term presentation: you have to present a compelling case within three minutes!

Useful tips

Preparing:
1. Think over the chosen topic and come up with an idea you feel strongly about.
2. Formulate a claim and make up a list of reasons why you are right in defending this claim.
3. Find convincing, up-to-date evidence to support your case.
4. Rehearse out loud keeping track of the time.

Presenting:
1. Start with an introductory phrase:
I’m going to talk about…; In my statement I will deal with…
2. Make a clear thesis statement (claim).
3. Produce 2–3 arguments (reasons), which you develop and support with examples.
4. Conclude with a sum-up relevant to your thesis statement:
So, all of the above shows that …
It appears reasonable to conclude that…
So we can conclude beyond reasonable doubt

MAKE A 3-MIN STATEMENT ON:

1. the most plausible scenario for the future of Europe over the next decade

2. the EU’s challenges and opportunities

3. EU: contradictions between the core and the periphery

4. EU-UK relations

5. EU-Russia relations

6. EU-China relations

7. European strategic autonomy

8. the EU’s enlargement agenda

9. regionalism in international relations

10. ASEAN as a model of regional integration

11. relations between the countries within ASEAN

12. ASEAN-Russia strategic partnership

13. Sino-ASEAN relations

14. ASEAN-US relations

15. BRICS: challenges and opportunities

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