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 Common web sites (institutions) - The European Union web site   

The aim is to surf the European Union’s website. In order to read the exercise while you are surfing the website, click on the mouse’s right button over the following link and select "open a new window/tab":

 

 www.europa.eu

 

by doing this you will have two windows open at the same time: the first is this webpage while the second is the European Union’s website. In the following images yu can see the pages we would like you to visit. 

 

 

Before it shows the Home Page, there is an extra webpage with a list of languages you can select from. 

 

 

Click on your national language :

 

  

 

Welcome in the European Unione website! 
 
It is split into three parts: 
 
(1) the Main Menu is on your left;  
 
(2) in the middle you can find general information (activities, institutions, documents, services);
 
(3) Links to other institutions, news and events are on your right.

Now, we are going to consult the website’s contents.  

 

 

Click on the menu "Easy reading corner", the fourth from the top of "Discover the EU" menu. 

Click on "Travelling in Europe".  

 

Here you can find booklets, maps, postcards and posters that provide you with more about European Union. 

By using vertical sliding bars, you can scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on "Travelling in Europe".  

 


    

Let’s try to print the text "Travelling in Europe" which contains "practical advice and helpful tips for tourists and travellers".

But how?

 

 

Click on the icon  and save the file.doc on your computer desktop.

 

At the end of the exercise, print it.

 

 

  

 

  

At this stage, go back to the Home Page:

 

- click on "Easy reading corner" at the top on your left,

 

- and then click on "European Commission" at the top as well

 

- and finally on "EUROPA".  

 

 

 

 

  

You are back in the Home Page again.

 

Consult the second menu "Living in the Eu" and click on "Your rights".

 

You can have access to on line European and national public services.

 

Click on "Information for citizens". 

  

 

 

 

 

   

Here you can find practical information on your rights and opportunities in the European Union and advice on how you can exercise these rights in practice. 

 

Even in this case you have to go back to the Home Page and click on "European Commission" at the top on your left and then click on "EUROPA".  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Starting from the Home Page, we now consult the third menu, which offers specific information on your country of origin.

 

Click on "The EU in your country".

 

 

Well. Now, do you know whoyour MEPs are?
Eu agencies? Let’s check.

Click on "Your MEPs".

 

 

  

 

 

Now click on your country (Italy).

 

Choose a constituency. 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

I just clicked on "Italy: north-east". 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

  

Click on the horizontal toolbar, at the top, on "News". 

 

You find a list of articles. Read the second one. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To go back to the List of articles, click on "Headlines". 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

To go back to the Home Page from the List of articles, you have to click on the Back button at the top on your left several times .    

 

 

The exercise is over. 

 

 

 

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