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During your classes in history and philosophy you certainly heard about utopists and their dreams of ideal and perfect existence. One of them was Thomas More who described an imaginary island Utopia representing the perfect society in his book in 1516. The other was Tommazo Kampanella who invented the Town of Sun in 1602.

Get divided into groups of 5 or 6. Think over the Project of an Ideal Society from the point of view of the young generation of the 21^st century. Present your project to the group mates.

Possible Options:

1. Making a power point presentation.

2. Record interviews with your group mates and show them at the lesson.

3. Make a poster “Project of an ideal society”

4. Conduct a Round table: Ideal Society: can we approach it?

5. Organise Debates: Ideal Society: should we strive to it or not?

Self-assessment table:

Use the following symbols:

In column 3 (importance): ! it’s important for me !! it`s especially important for me

In column 4 (my assessment): √ I know and I can do it √ √ I know it very well and I can do it easily

80% of ticks mean that you have coped with the topic properly

№	I know	Impor-tance	My assess-ment	Teacher’s assessment (points)
1	What is the EU and its symbols
2	The EU member states
	Markers of integration
3	Elements of European integration
	Format of debates
№	I can	Impor-tance	My assess-ment	Teacher’s assessment (points)
1	Speak on the topic the EU, using my mind-map
2	Speak about the EU integration
3	Determine key phrases
4	Determine markers of integration
5	Participate in Debates

6. Supplement my country and world community: the european union

Key for table 1:

EU members and when they joined:

1952 Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands

1973 Denmark, Ireland, United Kingdom

1981 Greece

1986 Portugal, Spain

1995 Austria, Finland, Sweden

2004 Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia

2007 Bulgaria, Romania

EU countries’ languages:

Multilingualism is central to the EU’s cultural diversity. The EU has 23 official languages. People living in the EU have access to all EU documents in the official language of their country. They also have the right to write to the Commission, and receive a reply in that language. Members of the European Parliament have the right to use any of the EU's official languages when speaking in Parliament. The languages are presented in Table 1. Can you match the language and the country.

Table 1 Languages of EU member-states

Bulgarian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Finnish French German Greek Hungarian Irish

Italian Latvian Lithuanian Maltese Polish Portuguese Romanian Slovak Slovene Spanish Swedish

For your info EU candidate countries are: Croatia, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro, Turkey

Key for task 9.

Markers of EU integration
Common events	World War II, single market was established in 1993, the single currency was launched in 1999
Common actions	construct Europe, share
Common territory	the continent, Europe, Western Europe, an area of freedom, internal market,
Common purposes	to help maintain peace, the construction of a united Europe, to unite the nations of Europe, to organize relations between the member states, to promote economic and social progress, to assert the identity of the EU, to introduce European citizenship, to develop an area of freedom, security and justice, to maintain and build a EU law,
Common documents	the founding treaties, common policies, EU law, the legislation,
Integrative pronouns	-
Verbs of integration	to unite, to share, to complement
Adjectives of integration	united, common, coherent, single
Nouns of integration	unit, solidarity
Words of multitude	people, businessmen, students, pensioners, holidaymakers, the nations of Europe, twenty seven countries, members, 400 million people, the member states, persons, the EU institutions
Threats	international crises, rivalry, suspicion

Additional Reading for Task 5.