- •Part two
- •2.1 Anticipating the Issue
- •2. 1A. Man and Society
- •1. Are you a gregarious person, enjoying socializing, or do you prefer to stay alone in a distant place, savouring its tranquility3?
- •2. Explain the meaning of the words in bold and answer the questions that follow.
- •3. Read the text, find equivalents to the words in bold, answer the questions.
- •2.2 Raise the Issue
- •2.2 A. Words in Context
- •1. Tick the word closest in meaning to that of the each boldfaced word. Use the context of the sentences to help you figure out each word’s meaning.
- •2. Write the word next to its definition. The sentences in the previous exercise will help you decide on the meaning of each word.
- •3. Complete the text with the words from the box.
- •4. Answer the following questions.
- •2. 2 B. Listening and Watching
- •2.2 C. Creative Consolidation
- •1. Write a synthetic review of the information from the text and multimedia programs, supporting it with the data from Russian sources.
- •2. Write a 350-word essay developing one of the following theses:
- •3. Write an article about the reasons for tyrants’ and dictators’ success in politics and their quite common failure in business.
- •2.2 D. Roots of Terrorism
- •1. Read the article and say whether you agree with the writer’s stance on the problem.
- •2. Find these expressions in the text and explain their meaning.
- •3. Match the following words with their definitions.
- •4. Match the pairs of antonyms.
- •2. Complete the sentences with the words from the previous exercise.
- •3. Read the following sentence and explain the meaning of the expression in italics.
- •2.2 G. Listening and Watching
- •2. Write the word next to its definition. The sentences in the previous exercise will help you decide on the meaning of each word.
- •3. Using the answer line provided, complete each item below with the correct word from the box. Use each word once.
- •2.3 B. Roots of Crime
- •1. Read the article and say whether your vision of breeding grounds of crime differs from the writer’s?
- •2. Find the following expressions in the text and explain their meaning.
- •3. Match the words with their definitions.
- •4. Answer the questions.
- •5. Speak about roots of crime in our country. Are they absolutely similar to those mentioned in the article?
- •2.3 C. Vocabulary in Focus
- •1. Choose the correct answer.
- •2.3 D. Listening and Watching
- •2. Write the word next to its definition. The sentences in the previous exercise will help you decide on the meaning of each word.
- •3. Using the answer line provided, complete each item below with the correct word from the box. Use each word once.
- •2.4 B. Legalization of Drugs? Yes/No?
- •1. Read the article.
- •2. Find the following expressions in the text and explain their meaning.
- •3. Match the words with their definitions.
- •4. Match the pairs of antonyms.
- •5. Answer the questions.
- •6. Read the following statements. Do you think the author would agree (a) or disagree (d) with them? Write a or d next to each statement. .
- •2.4 C. Watching and Listening
- •2. Answer the following questions.
- •2. 5 Reading Selection
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Study the following statements and discriminate between the true and false ones.
- •2. Find the words in the article that have similar meaning to the following.
- •3. Do you think the author would agree with the following statements?
- •4. Express your own opinions on the above statements.
- •5. For discussion.
- •By Sherry Joe
- •Culture
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Answer the following questions.
- •2. Brainstorm ideas.
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Do you think the writer would agree with the following statements?
- •2. Answer the following questions.
- •3. Brainstorm ideas.
- •Vocabulary
- •1. How would the writer answer these questions?
- •2. What is your position to the writer’s statement?
- •3. Has your vision of the problem changed after reading this article? Have you become more open-minded (ready and willing to consider new ideas)? Have you become more tolerant of other groups?
- •4. Brainstorm ideas.
- •Vocabulary
- •1. Answer the following questions.
- •2.7 Creative Consolidation
- •1. Project-Making.
- •2. Write an article about:
- •3. Write a 350-word essay developing one of the theses.
Vocabulary
relevant – (+to) important and connected directly to what is being discussed or considered; relevance (relevancy) (+of) (n): of relevance to sth.
absorb – to make a small group, organization etc become part of a larger one: absorb sth into sth – to allow ideas, methods etc to become part of your own way of thinking or culture; absorbed (adj) (+in) – interested or involved in sth; absorbing (adj) – very entertaining; absorption (n) (+of, into).
sensitive – reacting strongly or emotionally; needing to be dealt with carefully; needing to be protected, or kept secret; showing that you care about someone or something (+to); sensitively (adv); sensitivity (n).
trace – to find sth or sb that you are looking for by asking questions and getting information: trace sb to sth, to trace sth back to sth – to discover the origin of something or how it developed; trace (n): disappear/vanish without trace; a trace of.
overwhelming – much larger, stronger etc than anything else in a situation: overwhelming majority; overwhelming odds; overwhelming desire, emotion, feeling, need, sense; overwhelmingly (adj); overwhelm (v) - to affect someone’s emotions in a very powerful way, to surprise someone very much; to defeat an opponent especially by a lot of points, goals.
enduring – lasting for a long time; endure (v) – to suffer sth unpleasant or difficult in a patient way over a long period; endurable (adj); endurance (n) – the ability to continue doing sth physically difficult or unpleasant for a long period: beyond endurance.
legacy – money or property that you arrange for someone to have after you die; sth such as tradition or problem that exists as a result of sth that happened in the past (+of); sth that someone has achieved that continues to exist after they stop working or die, ex. A legacy of out imperial past: legacy system – a computer system that is still used although it is no longer the most modern or advanced, because it would be very expensive or difficult to replace it.
instant – (adj) immediate, ex. instant solutions; prepared in a very short time (about food or drink), usually by adding some hot water, ex. instant coffee/soup; instant messaging – the activity of communicating with sb directly over the Internet and replying to their messages as soon as they arrive; (n) an extremely short period of time, that ends almost immediately, moment: in an instant, at the particular instant; instantly (adj) - immediately.
1. Do you think the writer would agree with the following statements?
- Mass immigration is always intrinsically connected with political oppression.
- Though Europe has always been considered the continent of emigration, it has a long history of large scale immigration.
- The process of assimilation was simpler in the past.
- Thanks to highly developed sense of civic and political rights the division between the insiders and outsiders was clear.
- Modern European society is homogeneous.
- There is a host of quick and simple solutions to the problem of immigration.