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1.12.1. Find in the text English equivalents for the following:

  1. заниматься политикой

  2. заострить внимание на самой сути

  3. миротворец

  4. разумный компромисс

  5. удержание, сохранение власти

  6. увековечить себя

  7. обеспечить мирное существование

  8. гарант мирного общества

  9. действовать в соответствии и преследовать свои собственные

  10. интересы

  11. неизбежное разнообразие мнений

  12. управлять обществом

1.12.2. Find words or phrases in the text which mean the same as:

  1. stated or mentioned before or already

  2. dishonest practices; accepting bribes

  3. the highest or most significant force or influence

  4. to put an end to a bitter argument

  5. scheming, crafty means to get power

  6. to carry promises, measures, undertaking, agreement into effect

  7. to fight the process of becoming worse or less moral

  8. to support or form the basis for ( a case, an argument)

1.12.3. Develop the following ideas according to the text:

  1. Man is self-preserving by nature.

  2. Politics presuppose the diversity of view.

  3. The world has its limits.

  4. Politics occurs in all kinds of communities.

1.12.4. Answer the questions:

  1. What images come to our mind on hearing the word “politics”?

  2. What is the origin of the word “politics”?

  3. Give different definitions of politics according to the text.

  4. What idea of politics do you share?

  5. Do we need politics? Why?

II. What makes a successful politician?

2.1.  Read the text and answer the questions. Why Go Into Politics?

  1. Why is the author dissatisfied with the present local authorities?

  2. For what reasons does he want to go into politics?

  3. Does the author have necessary qualities for that? What are they?

  4. For which reasons would you go into politics?

  5. For which you wouldn’t?

I’m unemployed and fed up. There’s never anything to do. Now I can read the council papers that are sent to me and it gives me something to think about.

I like meeting people, helping people, and talking. I can always find something to say. I love making speeches.

There are a lot of improvements that I think would make life better for the people who live in this district, and I would like to be able to campaign for them.

It’s great to feel you have a say in how things are done. It makes you feel important. You don’t have to be elected to the council – it’s enough just to be on the local party’s own committees.

The only way the party I support can be in control in this town is if people are willing to give up their time and energy to win seats and go to meetings, and I can’t always expect someone else to do it for me.

Why should that lot get away with it? They are just looking after their own interests.

Someone needs to do the work on the council, and if none of us are on it, our views will never be heard.

There are a lot of things the council don’t do right and it does no good sitting at home moaning – I wanted to be there to argue with the councillors themselves.

My mates took me to the party meeting, and then they needed a candidate, so I got talked into it and happened to win the election.

I thought I’d be able to make more money if I knew what was going on in the council meetings.

2.2. You will hear two Members of Parliament, Clare Short and Robert Jackson, answering some of the following questions, but not in order. Listen and decide which questions they are answering. Write down the letters of the questions next to the numbers you hear. Be careful: there is one extra question.

  1. What made you decide to go into politics?

  2. Have you got a job outside Parliament?

  3. What is the most enjoyable or satisfactory part of your job?

  4. What’s the least enjoyable or least satisfactory part of your job?

  5. What do you hope to achieve in your present term in Parliament?