Global Campaign for Education (2)

What's happening
In 2000, world leaders made a commitment to provide quality education for everyone by 2015. GCE developed several campaigns to help achieve this goal.

Every Child Needs a Teacher Campaign 
GCE is working with national governments to provide more quality teachers. Globally, 1.7 million primary school teachers are needed to reach the 2015 educational goal.

Literacy For All Campaign 
Today, nearly one in six people around the world cannot read or write. Not being able to read impacts a person's job opportunities and increases poverty. GCE seeks to provide teaching materials in primary students' mother tongues.

Make it Right For Girls Campaign 
Around the world, many girls face neglect and are often denied an education. GCE aims to give women the same opportunities as men.

Every spring, GCE leads the Global Action Week. During this week, GCE highlights people who have been denied educational opportunities. This year the Global Action Week focuses on providing an education to disabled people.

GCE believes that quality education can change lives.

Info Cloud
Teaching Topic: Some Relative Phrases (和親戚相關的片語)
mother tongue 母語
Oh, brother! 喔, 拜託! (跟兄弟沒有關係)
Say uncle! 認輸, 投降
grandfather 當動詞用時, 指不受新的條例約束

Grammar Gym
Not being able to read impacts a person's job opportunities and increases poverty.
- Not being able to sleep well impacts a person's well-being and increases health risks.
- Not being able to have fresh water impacts an entire community and increases the danger of diseases.

Language Lab
achieve v.
to successfully complete something or get a good result, especially by working hard:
- We plan to achieve our sales goal through advertising.
- The boy had achieved fluency in multiple languages when he was only 8.
achievement n.
something important that you succeed in doing by your own efforts
- This invention is a great scientific achievement.

global adj.
affecting or including the whole world [↪ universal]:
- Air pollution is a huge global issue.
globally adv.
- Many globally renowned corporations participated in the project.

neglect v.
to fail to look after someone or something properly:
- Mothers tend to neglect their own needs because they're busy taking care of their children.
negligent adj.
not taking enough care over something that you are responsible for, with the result that serious mistakes are made [= irresponsible; ≠ responsible]
- The company is negligent in training its workers how to handle the machinery properly.

highlight v.
to make a problem or subject easy to notice so that people pay attention to it:
- The movie highlighted the needs of disadvantaged aboriginal kids.
highlight n.
the most important, interesting, or enjoyable part of something such as a holiday, performance, or sports competition
- One of the highlights of the party was the clown's performance.

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