Use the EU website to improve your ability to produce correct English vocabulary, grammar and syntax. There are also links to the sites of the UN, the FAO, the Bank of Italy and NATO.
The homepage of
the EU website
Start
with the EU homepage and all the documents linked it. Open the homepage in Italian and open
it again in English on another page on your laptop. Translate
from Italian to English orally line by line, moving from the Italian version to
the English version to check. Of course, there will be some differences of
style and occasionally of sentence structure, but you are interested in
identifying any really bad errors of vocabulary or grammar that you make (the
errors will be mainly vocabulary). Make notes on your errors. You should also
note any spelling you need to remember.
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_it
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en
Then open all
the documents listed on the homepage (and the ones connected to those!) in
Italian and English.
https://eu-solidarity-ukraine.ec.europa.eu/index_it
https://eu-solidarity-ukraine.ec.europa.eu/index_en
Sometimes you
can change the language of the document directly on that page, but other times
you have to go back to the original homepage in Italian or English and follow
the same series of steps to the document that you want. In the EU Newsroom some
of the documents are only in English, but the highlighted ones are in both
languages. See which documents are in both languages and which are only in
English on this page.
https://european-union.europa.eu/news-and-events_it
https://european-union.europa.eu/news-and-events_en
You can, of
course, search for a particular topic:
the EU/UK future
relationship after Brexit
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/relations-non-eu-countries/relations-united-kingdom_it
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/relations-non-eu-countries/relations-united-kingdom_en
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/it/statement_21_1018
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_21_1018
or the EU
response to Covid-19
https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-response_it
https://ec.europa.eu/info/live-work-travel-eu/coronavirus-response_en
The EU in 2023 (the general report on the activities of the European Union)
Don’t forget, if you need to
expand your knowledge of basic vocabulary, go to the Publications Office of the
European Union at https://op.europa.eu/en/home on the EU site in Italian and English, where you will
find ‘the EU in 2023’ (the general report on the activities of the European
Union, more than 100 pages in various sections). Open the report in
Italian and open it again on another page in English on
your laptop. Translate from Italian to English orally line by line,
moving from the Italian version to the English version to check and make notes
on the vocabulary. Of course, there will be some differences of style and
occasionally of sentence structure, but you are interested in identifying any
really bad errors of vocabulary or grammar that you make (the errors will be
mainly vocabulary) Make notes on your errors. You should also note any spelling
you need to remember.
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2023/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2023/en/
The EU publications site is also
useful if you are looking for other texts to read or translate)
https://op.europa.eu/en/web/general-publications/publications
look at the links to publications on the Green Deal, the environment,
artificial intelligence (AI) etc.
and for the general report for
previous years previous years, just do a search on https://op.europa.eu/en/home for
‘the Eu in 2022’ etc.
2022
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2022/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2022/en/
2021
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2021/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2021/en/
2020
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2020/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2020/en/
2019
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2019/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2019/en/
then click on the language you
want and download in Spanish, French or German!)
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2019/fr/
2018
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2018/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2018/en/
2017
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2017/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2017/en/
2016
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2016/it/
https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/general-report-2016/en/
The EU in 2015
https://op.europa.eu/it/web/general-report
and ‘the General report on the activities of the European Union 2014’
(288 pages!)
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/beafd525-4bc8-468c-9342-69041fb04e0f
If you prefer, you can go
straight to the English version of the EU in 2023 or other texts on the EU site
or UN site and simply start taking notes on common expressions used in
diplomatic English.
There’s also EU
law. Search for a specific topic, the click on the law, choose the language and
download the text
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/search.html?scope=EURLEX&text=2022&lang=en&type=quick&qid=1663182311648
for example, cybersecurity
with the text in different languages
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32022L2555&qid=1663182311648
There's also the
European Green Deal in Italian and English
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_it
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en
This page and all the linked
pages
And the EU Recovery plan - NextGenerationEU
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/recovery-plan-europe_it
https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/recovery-plan-europe_en
and all the pages and documents linked to the EU’s main page
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_it
https://europa.eu/european-union/index_en
The UN
There is also
the UN Annual Report 2021 for note-taking on the language and vocabulary, but
no text in Italian, so no translation unless you want to translate from French,
German or Spanish into English!
https://www.un.org/en/annualreport
2022
https://news.un.org/pages/annualreport-2022/
2021
https://unfccc.int/annual-report-2021
or 2020
https://www.un.org/annualreport/2020/
or 2019
https://www.un.org/annualreport/2019/
or 2018
https://www.un.org/annualreport/2018/
If you prefer
you can go straight to the UN site and simply read and take notes on the vocabulary and phraseology that they use. Start
with the UN News Centre:
https://news.un.org/en/news (click on
the right for stories from previous years)
and for listening
practice, go to the UN audio section
https://news.un.org/en/audio-hub
https://news.un.org/en/audio-product/news-brief
You
should also look at all the links on the right on both those pages
There's also the
FAO for note-taking
and some articles in Italian
and English. I searched for ‘theFAO articles in Italian and English and got
this:
https://www.fao.org/common-pages/search/en/?q=2024
but you will have to check
which ones that have been translated.
Some examples:
There are also lots of
articles on the FAO archive page
https://www.fao.org/news/archive/it/
There‘s also the
Bank of Italy site to explore
https://www.bancaditalia.it/
For example:
https://www.bancaditalia.it/pubblicazioni/bollettino-eco-bce/2023/bol-eco-4-2023/index.html
NATO for note-taking
Start with the main page:
for example:
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_228115.htm
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_228160.htm?selectedLocale=en
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_225250.htm?selectedLocale=en
and regarding the history of Italy and NATO
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/declassified_162356.htm
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