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topic changes

reformulations

discourse planning

stressing

HEDGING

backchanneling

6b

Consider some 2-3 examples

Decide whether they press emotionality a) towards the issue, b) towards the partner? If yes, what is their tone?

What response do they suggest? What response do they actually produce? Why?

What are the situations in which you find these phrases and intonation acceptable/unacceptable?

6c

Fill the gaps with the means of proper turn-taking and steering the discourse taken from the first 10-minutes of main body of the discussion.

a)______________________ from a very personal question, you’re a wellknown academic, but…

b)_______________________ that you obviously are not allowed to go to Tibet right now.

c)You say they are praying for you but they can’t possibly know you. -

______________________________Number one that debates of our election became widely popular inside Tibet.

d)This will be continued and I, for one, will be very active in strengthening and sustain of the Tibetan cause all around the world. –

____________________________, you’re are not pecting to receive any

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political recognition, are you?..From key governments all around the world.

e)We’ll talk more about the frustration of Tibetan youth at the moment,

_____________________________, because as I understand from your own election campaign the thing you’re selling…

f)On that basis I’ve reached out hundreds and thousands of Chinese students and scholars and organized seven major conferences. –

____________________________What good has it done to you?

6d

Express positive and negative attitude to the thought given below, using the means of pressing attitude and steering the discourse and you wrote above.

“Wherever will be suppression there will be resistance” -Mao Tse Tung

Professional Communication

A PANEL DISCUSSION

A panel discussion is a situation in which a group of people are gathered together to discuss an issue, often to provide feedback on something, to brainstorm solutions to a problem or to discuss an issue of public concern in front of an audience.

Work in two groups:

Group A: a group of experts who represent China’s government position

Group B: a group of Tibet exile representatives.

Group C: a group of officials from ICC (International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for promotion and Protection of Human Rights)

(http://nhri.ohchr.org/EN/Pages/default.aspx)

You are going to take part in a panel discussion.

The main question is whether Tibet ile administration is to be officially recognized by Chinese government.

Group A:

Each Chinese government representative is to prepare to present the government’s view of the situation and suggest solutions either within the

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framework of the Middle Way policy or to offer their own proposals more acceptable for the government

Please, compose a list of 2 or 3your propositions.

Group B: Each Tibetan exile representatives is to do some additional reading at home and prepare to present the list of your most urgent demands.

Please, save the links you used for your additional reading into a hot-list and submit to your teacher when required.

Group C: Each ICC official is to consider a political situation similar to TibetChina conflict and its resolution. Prepare to insist on the complying with the relevant norms of International Human Rights Law.

Use the following The Universal Declaration on Human Rights: http://www.un.org/Overview/rights.html

NB: Each participant is supposed to actively use topical vocabulary (3-5 units) and means of steering discourse (from 3- 5 units).

Нome Task 4

Learn words and phrases given in the Unit 5. Use the words and expressions from Glossary Unit 5.

Unit 6. BBC HARDtalk : Benjamin Chaves, the Afro-Americans civil rights fighter

Home Task 1:

1) Prepare to speak in class on one of the topics below. Be brief and substantive. Your talk should not be more than a minute long:

1. What are the origins of American Civil Rights Movement?

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2.What is NAACP? When di it appear and what people headed it? Who were the most prominent figures who founded and chaired the organization?

What is their role in “Million Man March”?

3.What sort of organization is “Nation of Islam”? Was it created in a

Muslim country? What is the difference between civil rights movement and separatist movement?

4.In what circumstances, when and why was the 15th Amendment to the American Constitution adopted?

5.What is Satyagraha? Who was the philosophy developed by? How did it influence civil rights movement?

6.Speak about Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1963 Birmingham Children Crusade, 1965 Selma Voting Rights Movement and, 1966 Chicago Open Housing Movement. What were the reasons of these political actions and who headed them?

7.What is white supremacism? What notorious organization is known to profess the ideas of white supremacy? What is the role of Wilmington 10 in fighting this form of racism?

8.What is the United Church of Christ and what does for the civil rights movement?

2)Watch the video: BBC HARDtalk – Dr. Benjamin Chavis, the American Civil Rights Movement fighter

LeadIn

Has the problem of racial inequality been resolved in the United States? Is it still relevant?

When and how did the civil rights movement start?

What is the difference between racial discrimination and racial segregation?

What are those people and organizations that contributed most to the elimination of racial discrimination and the process of desegregation?

WORK IN PROGRESS

1a

Watch the presentation to the program and answer the following questions

1) How does Sara Montague introduce the guest?

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2)What political action was he imprisoned for? Where and when did it take place?

3)What did Amnesty International call Dr Chavis? How long ago was he granted a pardon?

4)What did he campaign his whole life for?

5)How old was the guest when he was working with Martin Luther King? What political action did he join later?

6)What is the question they are meant to discuss?

1b

Answer the questions on the main body of the program

Part 1

1)Does Dr Chavis believe that black kids have the same opportunities as the white kids in the modern USA? What are the facts that prove racism still ists? What are the facts that show the progress in civil rights movements?

2)What political action was organized by Wilmington 10 in1971? What was the reason for the protest? What were the members of Wilmington 10 accused of? How long were the sentences they were given?

3)What was it like to be a black youth in early seventies? What institution united black youth at that time? What opportunities did the church provide?

4)How important is the right to press yourself for a personality? How did this understanding reflect on the course of events in North Carolina in 1970-s?

5)Was the protest violent? Who firebombed the store?

6)What is the difference between a “pardon” and “pardon with innocence”? Why does he think it took as much as 40 years to issue a pardon with innocence?

7)How does Dr Chavis describe his role in the protest of Wilmington 10? What accusations does he deny?

8)Does he consider the time he spent in prison dehumanizing or degrading? Why?

Part 2

1)What organization was he elected to lead after coming out of prison?

2)How does he characterize this organization? What guest were they proud to receive in 1993?

3)Why was he sacked from the post of the NAACP Leader a year after he took the office?

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4)Why did he join the organization “Nation of Islam” and take a senior leadership position in it?

5)How does Sara Montague characterise this organisation?

6)Why was Dr Chavis ministry terminated in 1997?

7)What are the civil rights achievements and failure for the moment? How does he plain the reasons for failures?

8)What is his attitude to Barack Obama?

Home Task 2

Watch the video and compile a topical glossary. You may wish to include some general vocabulary words and expressions

GAINING THE LANGUAGE

2a

Watch again and make a list of topical vocabulary phrases. Then put the phrases under the following headings in your ercise book.

Group A

Noun + Noun

Verb + Noun /Noun+Verb

Group B

Adjective/Participle + Noun

Adverb + Adjective

Group C

Adverb + Verb

Other mixed

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2b

Use the words combinations within the context of the program.

Language Practice 1.

3a

Match parts to build combinations from the text.

1) to campaign for		a) unemployment rate
2)	racial	b) integrated society
3)	fully	c)	non-violent civil rights
4) suppress			protest
5) channel anger into		d) separatist movement
6)	controversial	e) economic injustice
7)	institutionalization of	f)	prejudice
8)	black	g) equality
9) reach		h) racism
10)to confess to		i)	black people rights
		j)	the civil rights
			movement

3b

Fill in the gaps with the phrases from the box. You might change them a bit so that they fit the gap if necessary.

1)Sonders' "radical socialist" advised the rebels to_____________________. He said that such political action might be backed by some congressmen who are committed to progressive ideals.

2)Republican ad campaign pictures made President Obama look 'blacker' to 'appeal to voters with ________________________________', study reveals

3)Afro-Americans , who typically suffer higher rates of unemployment than other racial groups, saw the _________________________decline in December to 8.3 percent, down 1.1 percent point from November and down nearly 2 percent from last year.

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4)Independence has been a long-cherished goal for Scottish nationalists. But though the result was not what they had hoped for, even_______________________ recognized the results of the referendum.

5)The committee is to be able to make sure that everyone has the abilities to succeed so that they are able to_________________________, and education is the key to their social well-being.

6)White supremacy is not the backwards intellectual ideology of a minority. It is the unconscious, bodily disposition of the majority. It is not located primarily in talking heads or lone shooters or even laws. It is located in our habits. So it is not easy _______________________________.

7)At first glance, civil resistance and peace building might seem at odds: boycotts, strikes, civil disobedience, and street theatre— can be viewed as unhelpfully escalating conflict and creating societal polarization. On the other hand, in the societies where

_____________________________________has reached the treme point something is to be done.

8)David Cameron says people who want to stay in Britain need to speak English, but his plans concentrate on women in Muslim communities that he says serve as an obstacle on the way to_______________. He said that if immigrants don’t improve their fluency in English, that could affect their ability to stay in the U.K.

3c

Paraphrase using words and phrases from the box of words in 3a

1)For many years the NAACP struggled for the black people to have the same opportunities as the white and their action have not always been seen as legal and the local authorities have often banned the activities of those who was fighting for democratic freedoms for coloured people.

2)Although most groups within this Quebec sovereignty movement seek to gain independence and focus their rage –provoked efforts on using negotiation-

based diplomatic intervention, there are some fringe groups that insist on the use of violence and thus turn all the activities into the ones of a disputable pro-self-rule crusade

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3)It seems to be the time to stop regarding people of different compl ion as inferior to Anglo-Saxons and move towards a union of communities where everyone will understand each other and have the same rights as his neighbour.

4)The efforts to create an administrative structure which officially recognizes that the democratic rights of poor people are anyway limited will forever snap all the chances to see justice done.

5)Even to admit that the fact that Afro-Americans have less job opportunities than the white population means the recognition of white supremacy.

Language Practice 2. 4a

Watch again and make a list of the means of expressing attitude towards what is being said . Highlight the ones you have come across in the interview as many times as they appear.

combinations with modal verbs

adverbs expressing attitude towards facts and events

impersonal constructions

emotionally coloured vocabulary

metaphors pressing opinion

euphemisms

4b

Provide exexamples .Watch the episode from the interview and fill the corresponding column in the chart below

Group A. Scan for the means of expressing attitude used by the host Group B. Scan for the means of expressing attitude used by the guest

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4c

Look through your lists of expressing attitude towards facts and events means and analyse them:

What attitude to the issue do they express?

What attitude to the partner’s words do they express? What are they probably meant to conceal or emphasise?

4d

Paraphrase these statements using grammar and vocabulary means from the program to show one’s attitude towards the fact, opinion or event.

1)The last fifty years I have seen more than just significant progress. The fact that an Afro-American is US President is the fulfilment of the dream of Martin Luther King (Dr Chavis)

2)You used the word “militant” which means you were ready to act against the law (Sarah Montague)

3)Even though we were the victims of the riot we were the targets of Ku Klux Clan and other nationalist groups of the kind (Dr Chavis)

4)They did a research that showed us that we were unjustly arrested, imprisoned and oppressed, put it in the first place. (Dr Chavis)

5)There are still some people who think whatever happened then you some role in it? (Sarah Montague)

6)I don’t think it is advisable for anyone to go to prison to strengthen their faith. (Dr Chavis)

Language Practice 3

5a

Focus on interviewer’s turns. Choose some to analyse. Consider the following:

1)how many sentences are there in it?

2)are they questions or side notes?

3)what phrases are used by the host to ercise smooth transition from one discussed issue to another?

4)what is the question itself?

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