{"id":30398,"date":"2025-05-21T11:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T09:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=30398"},"modified":"2025-05-22T08:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T06:19:24","slug":"international-organizations-governmental-and-ngos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2025\/05\/international-organizations-governmental-and-ngos\/","title":{"rendered":"International Organizations: Governmental and NGOs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>B2 &#8211; Upper Intermediate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>International organizations help countries work together to solve global problems. Some are created by governments to promote peace, trade, or public health. Others are started by private citizens and focus on things like human rights or disaster relief. These groups play an important role in making the world more stable, fair, and safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about how these organizations work and the history behind the symbol of the Red Cross, watch the full video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"International Organizations: Governmental and NGOs\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JdDvLU_aCc4?wmode=transparent&amp;rel=0&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Vocabulary Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What does <strong>&#8220;at the cost of someone\/something&#8221;<\/strong> mean? &#8220;<em>Their end goal is free trade between each and have received criticism for being single-minded and not worried about the environment <strong>at the cost of trade.<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; Use it in a sentence. 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