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5b

Now focus on the guest’s answer. Choose some and practice in summarizing them giving the main idea of the guest’s turn.

For example:

Sara Montague: You took a senior position in a controversial separatist movement. (Nation of Islam) Was it wise thing to do?

Dr.Chavis

Absolutely. ( illegible)After the NAACP, I was a director of Million Man March, still as a Christian minister. I didn’t join.. That was 1995…I didn’t join the Nation of Islam until 1997. I am very proud of the work we did while I was within the Nation. We helped do with crime in many communities, we helped do with selfdestruction that was going on in many of our neighborhoods. And that was the reason why I joined. Because I wanted to have more hands on to improve quality of life …particularly of young African males. That was the whole purpose of Million Man March, which was very successful…transformative…

Dr.Chavis

That was right, because that helped him to help to improve the quality of life of black population of America, which was the primary goal of Million Man March

5c

Watch the program in full and schematize it using the flowchart below. Remember that the flowchart may be extended so that to fit this particular programme.

Interviewing

Host _______________________________ Guest____________________________________________

Presentation ( summarise)

Host’s turn(Q1)

Guest’s answer(A1)

Q2

A2

Q3

A3 ( you may continue when necessary)

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Host’s conclusion

Home Task 3:

1)fill in the flowchart from 5c at home

2)prepare to participate in debates devoted to the modern forms of racial inequality and the ways to tackle them

GETTING READY FOR PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION

Processing Discourse Features

6a

Analyse the means of turn-taking and steering the discourse. Highlight those you observe in the interview. Focus on means of backchanneling2 and put a tick in the appropriate box.

topic changes

reformulations

discourse planning

stressing

hedging

BACKCHANNELING

6b

Do they express 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 in?

2 BACKCHANNELLING is the way for the listeners to show their engagement in the communication. It can be both verbal and non-verbal in nature

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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. Watch Part II for this.

a)_________________________________ You joined the Nation of Islam. You took a senior position in a controversial separatist movement.

b)___________________________But after the Million Man March you changed your name to Benjamin Chavis Mohammed.

c)Why was that? Getting rid of the Nation of Islam? –_________________.

_______________________evolving. My life is evolving…

d) There is a serious contradiction about the disproportion.. impact that Criminal Justice System in USA is having on black people. No question about it.____________________________________. The figures that you give are accurate…

e)I know Dr Corner West, he is a close friend of mine, we’re colleagues, and certainly he’s one of our intellectual giants of our society and his criticism has some validity. _____________________that we tend to be overly critical, we tend not to see the progress that has been made…

6d

Express positive and negative attitude to the thought given below, using the means of expressing attitude and steering the discourse , which you analysed above.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Martin Luther King

PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION

DEBATES

NAACP vs The Nation of Islam Debate on Racial Inequality

Group A: NAACP members. Visit NAACP website ( http://www.naacp.org/). Go to About us page and study Our Mission post (http://www.naacp.org/pages/our-mission). Present your mission and the

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ways you are going to achieve the goals. Do your best to appease your guests from NOI sharing some of your goals but insisting on more radical ways.

Group B: Nation of Islam members .Visit NOI website (http://www.noi.org/) and go to Muslim program option study the part what Muslim want and work out your party position regarding NAACP program on dealing with racial inequality. Remember that NOI is often referred to as a controversial separatist movement. Be politically correct.

Group C: a panel of International Relations scholars. Evaluate you situation and work out recommendations on how the issues of racial inequality can be resolved in the 21st century.

Each participant has to use topical vocabulary in their speech (from 3- 5 units).

Нome Task 4

Learn words and phrases given in the Unit 6. Use the words and expressions from Glossary Unit 6.

Module 4.

Economic and Social Issues

Introduction to Module 4

Unit 7. BBC HARDtalk - Ben Bernanke, Former Chairman, US Federal

Reserve .

Home Task 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 factors can cause economic crises?

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2)What measures are usually taken against crises and what state officials are responsible for implementing those measures?

3)Give examples of historical and current economic crises and describe the methods of their regulation.

4)What is the Federal Reserve System? What are the goals of this institution?

5)What offices has Ben Bernanke held at the top of the US financial system?

6)What were the greatest achievements in his career before 2008?

7)Describe the economic situation in the USA in 2008. What did Bernanke do to ensure economic recovery in the country?

8)Comment on Barak Obama’s words about Ben Bernanke: “Ben

Bernanke is the epitome of calm, and against the volatility of global markets he’s been a voice of wisdom and a steady hand” (2008).

Watch the video: BBC HARDtalk - Ben Bernanke - Former Chairman, US Federal Reserve .

Introduction

1)What offices has Ben Bernanke held at the top of the US financial system?

2)What are Lehman Brothers and AIG? How did the companies react to the 2008 crisis? What was the Fed's policy regarding these institutions?

3)Explain the following terms: subprime mortgage, moral hazard, fiscal policy, quantitative easing.

4)What did Bernanke do to ensure economic recovery in the country in 2008?

5)What were the greatest achievements in his career before 2008?

6)Comment on Barak Obama’s words about Ben Bernanke: “Ben Bernanke is the epitome of calm, and against the volatility of global markets he’s been a voice of wisdom and a steady hand” (2008).

You can find relevant information here:

The 2008 financial crisis explained to students by Ben Bernanke: http://tinyurl.com/djtqrj

WORK IN PROGRESS

1a

Watch the presentation to the program and answer the following questions 1) What was the situation in Wall Street like seven years before the

program was made?

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2)How did that situation influence people’s perception of capitalism?

3)How does the presenter describe the role the guest played in resolving the crisis?

1b

Answer the questions on the main body of the program

1)What errors in Bernanke and his colleague's work does the presenter mention or hint at (with respect to complacency, misunderstanding, CEOs, political bias, cheap money, inequality)? What is Bernanke's response to each allegation?

2)What is the Republican economic agenda mentioned by the presenter, and how does Bernanke estimate the Republican fiscal policy?

3)What is Bernanke’s view of the measures being taken in the

European economy, and of the policy of the Bank of England?

4)What is the challenge the Fed is looking at?

5)Whose job do you think it is to “worry about inequality”?

Home Task 2

Watch the video and write all necessary words and word combinations

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

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Adjective/Participle + Noun

Adverb + Adjective

Group C

Adverb + Verb

other/ mixed

2b

Use the words combinations within the cont t of the program.

Language Practice 1.

3a

Match parts to build combinations from the text.

1) a lender	a) inequality
2) wisdom	b) of austerity
3) shape	c) in the red
4) abide	d) tough terms on
5) acerbate	e) to meltdown
6) emerging	f)	mortgage
7) close	g) markets
8) deeply	h) by the principle
9) impose	i)	economic policy
10) dodgy	j)	of last resort

3b

Fill in the gaps with words or phrases from the box.

1)Having found itself deeply_________ ___________ ______________, the government finally realised what the economists meant speaking about the wisdom _________________.

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2)Lenders agreed to bail the failed economy out, but _______________ harsh austerity ________________, requiring it to introduce budget cuts, increase taxes steeply, streamline the government and end tax evasion.

3)The IMF acts as ____________________ ___________

___________________________________, bailing out countries that are

_______________ to ____________________.

4)Multinational corporations pledge to __________________ ___________________

the principles of accountability and openness to public scrutiny.

5)__________________economies around the world have gained enough momentum to participate in __________________ the global economic landscape.

6)________________ ______________________, reckless crediting and never-ending appeals to buy more combined with the reluctance of governments to introduce labour-oriented policies have _____________________

________________________________ in many places of the world.

3c

Paraphrase using words and phrases from 3a.

1)Borrowers have to follow the rules of the lender that they appeal to having failed to get help from other potential lenders. It must be taken into consideration that sometimes the rules such a lender establishes may turn out to be quite harsh.

2)Having enjoyed themselves for the first year of their marriage, the young family were oblivious to the consequences of the risky loan they had taken to buy a house and finally, having found themselves poor and indebted, decided to divorce.

3)Not only did the government that had for decades been unable to develop the right economic course aggravated inequality in the country, but also it made the people face the conditions of severe spending cuts.

4)Having neared an economic collapse in the second half of last century, Mexico has managed to recover and is now included by some economic analysts in the list of developing markets.

Language Practice 2.

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4a

Watch again and make a list of the means of pressing attitude to the facts and events discussed in the program. Tick the ones you have come across in the interview as many times as they appear:

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 towards facts and events used by the host

Group B. Scan for the means of expressing attitude towards facts and events used by the guest

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 your attitude towards the fact, opinion or event.

(For this purpose review first 5 minutes of the program)

1)Once we understood the scale of the crisis, we attacked it with all the tools that we could put together and stabilised the financial system. (Bernanke)

2)Yes, there was. Yes, there was complancency and it contributed, of course, to excessive risk-taking and insufficient care. (Bernanke)

3)Nobody understood how exposed they were to subprime mortgages.

The financial panic that created the crisis, the subprime mortgages didn’t.(Bernanke)

4)The level of the crisis was very high and you decided not to bail out

Lehman Brothers. (Presenter)

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5)We tried to prevent the panic from exacerbating. (Bernanke)

6)So, if that was what you were trying to do, you were trying to calm down the panic, then it has to be said: the most important decision was when you decided not to save a key financial institution - Lehman Brothers . (Presenter)

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 exercise smooth transition from one discussed issue to another?

4)what is the question itself?

5b

Now focus on the guest’s answers. Choose some and practice in summarizing them giving the main idea of the guest’s turn.

For example: (4:45 min)

Presenter: Why did you let it go over the cliff?

Benny Bernanke:

We didn’t let it – we didn’t have the choice. We didn’t have the tool to save it. It was deeply in the red, no-one would buy it and so, we had no choice but to let it fail. Unfortunately, we understood – unlike most of the media and the commentators – we understood, that they consequences would be really severe. But we just had no way to save it.

Benny Bernanke:

Federal Reserve officers realized that the consequences would be severe but they didn’t have tools to prevent the financial crisis.

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