Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Pretest
• Concept Mapping
• Reading Text & Presentation
  • 1.1 Founding of the ASEAN community
  • 1.2 The three pillars of the ASEAN community
  • 1.3 Explaining your job functions
• Language Focus
• Activities
• Post test
• Resources
• Bibliography

Countries

ASEAN consists of 10 member states— Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The Democratic republic of Timor-Leste is the only country in this region that is not a member because Timor-Leste became a sovereign state in 2002.

10 member states of ASEAN*

(Source: https://www.asia-first.com/newsletter/asean-vows-stronger-integrated-financial-markets.html retrieved 22/3/2014)

* The flag shown for Myanmar is the old flag, which was replaced in October 2010.

Capital cities

Capital city refers to the city or town that functions as the seat of government and administrative center of a country or region. In 2004, Myanmar relocated its capital city from Yangoon to Nay Pyi Daw to facilitate accessibility of the government from all parts of the country.

Nationalities

Nationality means ethnic groups forming a part of one or more political nations, marked as adjectives referring to countries and languages.

Suffix	Example
-ish	British, Irish, Spanish
-(i)an	Singaporean, Cambodian, Malaysian, Laotian
-ese	Vietnamese, Burmese, Chinese, Japanese
-i	Iraqi, Pakistani, Israeli
-ic	Arabic, Slavonic

 

Note: Some you have to learn separately, e.g. Filipino, Thai, Dutch, Swiss
More suffix examples can be found in the resources.
List of ASEAN Member Countries

 

Note: Most of the countries do not have ‘the’ in front, but in some countries, ‘the’ is used before them, e.g. The Philippines, The United States, The United Kingdom.