European Parliament

Elected every five years by direct universal…, the European Parliament is the expression of the democratic …of the Union’s citizens.

The Parliament …of 626 MEP’s. The Parliament …in France, Belgium and Luxembourg. Plenary sessions, which all MEP’s attend, are held in….

The Parliament has three main roles:

1) it … democratic control over all the community institutions;

2) it shares legislative power with ….

3) it plays a … role in the adoption of the budget.

Task 9. Read and translate the text. Choose one specialized agency of the UNO and prepare a report on it

International Inter-Regional Organizations

The International Inter-Regional Organizations play an important role in the global framework of different international institutions.

The most universal and influential among them are: the European Union (EU); The Organization of the Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE); the Council of Europe (CE); The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD); the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN); the Organization of African Unity (OAU); the Organization of American States (OAS); the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

Task 10. Make up the dialogues on the basis of the following text

The European Parliament (EP) is elected by the citizens of the European Union to represent their interests. Its origins go back to the 1950s and the founding treaties, and since 1979 its members have been directly elected by the people they represent.

Elections are held every five years, and every EU citizen is entitled to vote, and to stand as a candidate, wherever they live in the EU. Parliament thus expresses the democratic will of the Union's citizens (more than 490 million people), and represents their interests in discussions with the other EU institutions. The present parliament has 785 members from all 27 EU countries. Nearly one third of them are women. In principle, the number of Members of the European Parliament shall not exceed 736 from the next parliamentary term on (i.e. 2009 – 2014). Since Bulgaria and Romania joined the Union in the course of the 2004-2009 parliamentary term, the current maximum number of 732 seats in the EP will be temporarily exceeded.

Members of the European Parliament(MEPs) do not sit in national blocks, but in seven Europe-wide political groups. Between them, they represent all views on European integration, from the strongly pro-federalist to the openly Eurosceptic.

Task 11. Discuss the role of World Trade Organization and IAEA in the form of dialogue, using clichés, set expressions and phrases, given below

It is important to say…

It is necessary to note…

This fact deals with the…

I fully agree with the statement when…

I should like to draw your attention to…

It is possible to say that…

Summing it up…

Task 12. Touch upon the history of EU, its tasks, main bodies and functions of the European Parliament

Grammar exercises

І. Make up Present Participle (Participle I)

to get, to put, to take, to give, to stand, to do, to come, to drive, to know, to leave, to translate, to read, to play

ІІ.Translate Present Participle into English

читаючий, співаючий, розмовляючий, малюючий, гуляючий, будуючий, мріючий, ведучий, стрибаючий, граючий, літаючий

ІІІ. Make up your own sentences

The boy The woman The girl The man The people

calling me sitting at the window crossing the street standing at the blackboard driving a car

are my best friends works in out school is my mother is my father is my old friend