Types of Final Thoughts

A. Write down the type of final thought for each example.

B. Which one do you think is the best? Why?

1. If it had not been for the UN’s World Food Program, over 56 million children
would have gone without food last year.

Final thought: ___________________________

2. For the United Nations to promote and protect human rights, there is a great
need for consensus among the permanent Security Council members.

Final thought: ___________________________

3. Although the UN has not been able to solve all our global problems, it is more
important to focus on its accomplishments in the past fifty years. Can we think
of another organization that has been able to reach so many of the world’s
poorest across the globe?

Final thought: ___________________________

4. As the former UN Security General, Kofi Annan, said “More than ever before
in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face
it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.”

Final thought: ___________________________