I. What is the Nobel Prize? Watch the video.
II. Now watch the video again and fill in the gaps with the missing information:
- The Nobel Prize is an _____________ award for outstanding intellectual achievement.
- There are six fields upon which the award is conferred: Physics, ___________, Literature, Physiology or Medicine, the promotion of peace and _________________.
- Alfred Nobel was a _______________ and a ______________.
- He __________ in 1896.
- More than __________ have received the award so far.
- Nobel Laureates can only be individuals or ___________ of two or three.
- _____________ nominate the Laureates.
- Winners receive a diploma, a sum of money and a _________.
III. This year’s Nobel Prize has been awarded to anti-nuclear weapons campaigners.
Listen to the executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (Ican), Beatrice Fihn, speaking to reporters in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday after the organisation won the Nobel peace prize. (Source: The Guardian).
IV. Watch the video again and answer these questions:
a. Why have they been awarded with the Peace Nobel Prize?
b. To whom is the prize a tribute according to her?
V. Now read the Guardian view on the new peace laureates. Why is it a better bet according to the writer?
