Vocabulary:

1. Democracy – A system of government in which people’s views are reflected and the right of political participation is guaranteed.

2. Community – A group of people who identify with each other, have common interests, or are viewed as forming a distinct segment of society.

3. Convention –A legally binding agreement between nations designed to protect human rights

4. Activist –A person who intentionally acts to bring about civic, cultural, economic, political, or social change.

5. Civil and Political Rights –The rights to liberty and equality. Such rights include freedom to worship, to express oneself, to vote, to take part in political life, and to have access to information.

6. Xenophobia: A fear of foreigners, of persons from other countries or of things foreign generally. Xenophobia can lead to discrimination, racism, violence and even armed conflict against foreigners.

7. Human trafficking: the recruitment, transportation, harboring or receipt of

people for the purposes of slavery, forced labor

8. Sovereignty – The possession or exercise of full control by a government over a territorial or area or limit.

9. Responsibility – Obligation, duty, and/or accountability.

10. Justice – Fairness, equity, and morality in action or attitude in order to promote and protect human rights and responsibilities.

11. Genocide – A crime defined in international law as acts intended to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group of human beings.

12. Freedom – Political independence, liberty.

13. Creed – A set of fundamental beliefs or guiding principles

Ex. 1. A) Speak about democracy. How do you understand it? Can you give explanation of it? Discuss:

What does it mean to be fully human? How is that different from just "being alive" or "surviving"?

Based on this list, what do people need to live in dignity?

Are all human beings essentially equal? What is the value of human differences?

Can any of our "essential" human qualities be taken from us? For example, only human beings can communicate with complex language; are you human if you lose the power of speech?

What happens when a person or government attempts to deprive someone of something that is necessary to human dignity?

What would happen if you had to give up one of these human necessities?

B) Read aloud the story of Dr. Martin Luther King's life. Make notes of the main periods of his life. Say why he was called ‘CIVIL RIGHT LEADER’.

Ex. 2. Cut out each statement and glue under Right or Responsibility. Explain why your group decided it was a either

Be treated kindly To ask for help

To do my best To complete assignments

To a clean and attractive classroom To work in a quiet classroom

Use materials neatly and return to

correct place To be kind

To learn To tell the teacher what I am feeling

To be on time to school To follow the teachers

directions

To use my time wisely To be listened to

Not to bully others To not bully others

To listen to others To complete assignments

Ex. 3. Match the columns:

1. someone who sells things a. alley

2. a general name for "cows" b. appetite

3. skinny; thin c. boast

4. huge, large, enormous d. cattle

5. without covering or clothing e. drudgery

6. on the whole f. dull

7. improve the quality of something g. entirely

8. wander, walk around without direction h. gigantic

9. desire to eat i. goofy

10. upset, very mad j. hatch

11. funny, silly k. naked

12. boring, not exciting; not bright or sharp l. outraged

13. have difficulty doing something; fight m. outskirts

14. break out of an egg n. peddler

15. brag; say great things about yourself o. portion

16. get bigger, enlarge p. roam

17. small part or section q. slim

18. the suburbs, area around a city r. struggle

19. a narrow passageway or street s. swell

20. hard, uninteresting labor t. upgrade

Ex. 4. Roleplay with your desk-mate any situation where you can demonstrate your rights.

Ex. 5. A) Watch the video on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTlrSYbCbHE.

B) Write essay about the right of the nations living in our country to learn and teach their native languages at schools and speak in them.

Ex. 6. A) Make a list of rights that women of the 19th century didn’t have but now they do. Discuss them with whole group.

B) Game ‘Guess’. On separate sheets of paper write some of those rights and fix them on the backs of students so that the owners of sheets not to see what is written there. Group can walk around the class to read each others sheets. Then students have to explain each other what right is on their backs.

Note: Students are not allowed to use words written on the sheets, they can do explonation with help of synonyms/ antonyms.

GRAMMAR: The Infinitive Constructions

Uses of the Infinitive

1. The Infinitive may be used alone: We began to walk down the road.

2. The Infinitive may be the subject of a sentence.

3. The Infinitive may be the complement of a verb: His plan is to keep the affair secret.

4. The Infinitive may be the object or part of the object of a verb: He wants to pay or He wants me to pay.

5. The Infinitive can be used after certain adjectives: angry, glad, happy, sorry, fortunate, likely, lucky.

6. The Infinitive can be used with too/ enough.

Ex. 7. Translate into your language.

1. The first question to be considered is whether the offer of the sellers should be accepted. 2. A committee headed by B. began to work out a resolution to be presented to the conference. 3. The plan of our work will be discussed at the meeting to be held on may 25. 4. The buyers agreed to accept the goods at a price to be fixed by arbitration. 5. We stopped to have a smoke. 6. Please send us your instructions at once to enable us to ship the machines by the 20^th May.

Ex. 8. Insert to where necessary.

1. I like … play the piano. 2. My brother can … write poems. 3. We had … put on our overcoats because it was cold. 4. They wanted … cross the river. 5. It is time for you … go to bed. 6. Let me ... help you with your homework. 7. I was planning … do a lot of things yesterday. 8. I think I shall be able ... solve this problem. 9. What makes you … think you are right? 10. Do you like … listen to music?

Ex. 9. Replace the group of words in italics by an Infinitive or an Infinitive constructions.

It is important that he should understand this.

It is important to him to understand this.

1. The captain was the last man who left the ship. 2. Would you be very kind and lend me your umbrella? 3. There are a lot of sheets that need mending. 4. It is better that he should hear it from you. 5. If he had another child with whom he could play he would be happier. 6. He put his hand into his pocket and was astonished when he found that his wallet wasn’t there. 7. I can’t go to the party; I have nothing that I can wear. 8. Haven’t you anything with which you could open it? 9. The strikers decided that the strike should continue. 10. He took out his spare wheel and was very disappointed when he discovered that that tyre was also punctured.

Ex. 10. Fill in the right form of the verb given. Use verb+ing or to+infinitive.

Example: I want (go) ___ to the cinema tonight.

Ex.11. Fill the gaps with s preposition and an –ing form.

about like without by with of at for

Having making buying asking remembering

being stung arriving going doing coming

a) I got into trouble ____________ at school late. b) You can lose weight ______________ exercise. c) How _____________ out for a meal tonight? d) How dare you take my money ____________ me? e) This machine is used ____________ pasta. f) I'm hopeless ____________ people's names. g) I’m thinking ______________ a new car. A Renault, maybe. h) Thank you __________ to see me. i) Yuk! Monday morning! I don't feel ________________ to work!