III. Agree or disagree with the statements:

1. The interests of the state in Ukraine are above all.

2. Rights and freedoms can be treated variously.

3. In the Soviet Union the rights and freedoms of the person had been often offended.

4. All rights and freedoms in Ukrainian Constitution are declared only for the citizens of Ukraine.

5. The basic human rights are divided into five groups.

6. The Ukrainian people have no cultural rights.

7. The Ukrainian people have the right to elect and be elected only to the local government bodies.

8. The Ukrainian people have no choice of language, they use only native language.

9. The Ukrainian people have the freedom of thought and speech.

10. Ukraine is going on a way of becoming lawful state.

IV. Answer the questions:

1. When was the Constitution of Ukraine adopted?

2. Are all rights and freedoms in Ukrainian Constitution declared only for the citizens of Ukraine?

3. What are the basic human rights?

4. What are economic and social rights?

5. What are the private rights?

V. Match the first part of the sentence (1-5) with the second one (a-e).

1	Political, economic, social rights are:	a	“man and his rights and freedoms shall be supreme value”.
2	Ukraine is going on a way	b	could be divided into three groups.
3	The private rights are:	c	the right to private property; the right to elect and be elected.
4	The basic human rights	d	of becoming lawful state.
5	According to the Ukrainian Constitution,	e	the rights to life, to human dignity, to freedom, to personal inviolability.

VI. Make up a plan of the text.

VII. Retell the text in a written form (in English or Ukrainian). Text 64. What is nato?

I. Read and memorize the following words and word combinations:

A military alliance – військовий союз, to sign – підписувати, mutual defense – спільний захист, to galvanize – підживлювати, to ebb – відступати, to flow – прибувати, deterrent – захисний.

II. Listen to the text: What is nato?

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949. The NATO headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, and the organization constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.

For its first few years, NATO was not much more than a political association. However, the Korean War galvanized the member states, and an integrated military structure was built up under the direction of two U.S. supreme commanders. The first NATO Secretary General Lord Ismay famously stated the organization's goal was "to keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down". Throughout the Cold War doubts over the strength of the relationship between the European states and the United States ebbed and flowed, along with doubts over the credibility of the NATO defense against a prospective Soviet invasion - doubts that led to the development of the independent French nuclear deterrent and the withdrawal of the French from NATO's military structure from 1966.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the organization became drawn into the Balkans while building better links with former potential enemies to the east, which culminated with several former Warsaw Pact states joining the alliance in 1999 and 2004. Since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, NATO has attempted to refocus itself to new challenges and has deployed troops to Afghanistan and trainers to Iraq.

The Berlin Plus agreement is a comprehensive package of agreements made between NATO and the EU on 16 December 2002. With this agreement the EU is given the possibility to use NATO assets in case it wanted to act independently in an international crisis, on the condition that NATO does not want to act itself – the so-called "right of first refusal". Only if NATO refuses to act, the EU may act if it wants to do so. The combined military spending of all NATO members constitutes over 70% of the world's defense spending, with the United States alone accounting for about half the total military spending of the world.