- •Unit 1 college life
- •1. Read and translate Text 1:
- •College life
- •2. Answer the following questions:
- •3. Find words denoting:
- •4. Translate into English:
- •5. Complete the sentences choosing the appropriate word or phrase from the list. Change their form if necessary:
- •6. Put in the missing prepositions:
- •7. Translate the words or expressions given below into Russian and ask your classmates- to translate them back into English:
- •8. Read and translate Text 2: Becoming an effective student
- •9. Write answers to the questions on Text 2:
- •10. Choose the correct collocation:
- •11. Translate into English:
- •12. Read and translate Text 3: Koenigsberg University
- •13. Find English equivalents in text 3:
- •14. Role-play and group work:
- •15. Read and translate text 4:
- •16. Find English equivalents in Text 4:
- •18. Translate the text into English:
- •19. Write an essay on the following topics (200 – 250 words):
- •Unit 2 where in the world…?
- •2. Complete the table about France using the topic areas and examples in the box:
- •France – something for everyone!
- •3. Read and translate Text 1: Getting out of the city
- •4. Fill in prepositions or adverbs where necessary:
- •5. Choose the word or words that best complete the sentences from the list below:
- •6. Translate the following sentences into English:
- •7. Creative tasks:
- •8. Develop the following ideas. In pairs or groups play the situations:
- •9. Writing:
- •10. Read and translate Text 2: Lessons from Curitiba
- •11. Answer the questions:
- •12. Read the text and decide which answer (а, в, с or d) best fits each space:
- •13. Integrated task: An international trade fair
- •Unit 3 professional interaction
- •1. Read and translate Text 1:
- •Professional interaction
- •3. Complete the sentences below using words from the following list. Referring back to the article will help you with some of them:
- •4. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with the words below:
- •5. Role-play and group-work:
- •8. Fill in the right word from the word column: out of work
- •9. Read and translate Text 2: Resume
- •10. Find in the text Russian equivalents to the following:
- •11. Fill out the blanks with prepositions or adverbs where necessary:
- •12. Take a word from each column to complete the collocations you need for each space in the text:
- •13. Complete each space in the text with a word formed from the word in capitals:
- •14. Translate the sentences:
- •15. Translate the dialogues from Russian into English:
- •16. Topics for discussions and essays:
- •Unit 4 language of the news
- •Language in the news
- •2. Answer the following questions:
- •3. Match the word underlined in the headline to the explanation given on the list on the right:
- •4. Do you know the parts of a newspaper? What information can you find on the following pages?
- •5. Complete the text. Use the words given to form new words that fit the gaps:
- •6. Read the text and discuss the importance of being politically correct in the contemporary society:
- •7. Read the text and decide which answer (а, в, с or d) best completes each collocation or fixed phrase:
- •8. Explain in English the meanings of the following words:
- •9. Translate the text into English:
- •10. Group discussions and role-play:
- •Unit 5 religion
- •1. Read and translate Text 1:
- •The Russian Orthodox Church
- •2. Give English equivalents to the following words and expressions:
- •3. Fill in the gaps:
- •Christianity
- •4 Choose the right answer:
- •5. Translate into English: религия в современном мире
- •6 Complete the text with appropriate words: the church of england
- •7. Are the sentences true or false? Write t or f:
- •8. Group-work and discussions:
- •3. Read and translate text 1:
- •4. Scan the report and answer the questions:
- •5. Scan the report again. What do the numbers below refer to?
- •6. Read the report again. Are the statements expressed as fact (f) or speculation (s) in the text?
- •7. Read and translate the article and find the words according to the definitions below:
- •Greenpeace
- •8. Read and translate text 2: War on waste
- •9. Read the text carefully. Match sentences a-g with gaps 1-6. There is one sentence that you do not need:
- •10. Look through the text, ignoring the gaps. What is the main objective of the swag campaign?
- •11. Match the two halves of these expressions from the text:
- •12. Choose the correct preposition in these sentences.
- •13. Read and translate Text 3: what’s the earth coming to?
- •Is there any future in futurism?
- •14. Find English equivalents in the text for the following words:
- •15. Read and translate Text 4: democracy vs. The atom technological euphoria
- •16. Find English equivalents in the text for the following words:
- •17. Discussion:
- •18. Translate into English:
- •19. Group work and essays:
- •2. Answer the following questions:
- •3. Find English equivalents to the following:
- •4. Find the words in the text according to the definitions:
- •5. Fill in the gaps in this paragraph:
- •6. Translate into English:
- •7. Read and translate Text 2: Crime and criminal procedure
- •8. Answer the questions:
- •9. Read the story and fill the gaps:
- •10. Translate into English: Дело Стивена Кизко (Stefan Kizsko)
- •11. Read and translate Text 3: The system of justice
- •12. Answer the questions:
- •13. Find English equivalents in the text:
- •14. Explain in English some terms connected with the legal system:
- •15. Match the criminal with the definition:
- •16. Choose the right answer:
- •18. Read and translate Text 4: The legal profession
- •19. Answer the questions:
- •20. Find English equivalents in the text:
- •21.Choose the right answer.
- •22. Choose the correct verb to fill the gaps in this paragraph. Use each verb once only and put it in the correct form:
- •23. Match the headlines from a local newspaper with the first lines of their stories:
- •24. Translate into English: Министерство юстиции
- •25. Write or discuss the answers to these questions:
- •Unit 8 war and terrorism
- •1. Read and translate Text 1:
- •The mass psychology of terrorism
- •2. Answer the questions:
- •3. Find English equivalents in the text:
- •4. Choose the correct answer.
- •6. Render the text in English:
- •7. Read and translate Text 2:
- •8. Answer the questions:
- •9. Rewrite the sentences, replacing the words in brackets with collocations:
- •10. Fill in the gaps in the text:
- •11. Render the text in English:
- •12. Scan the text and discuss the situation and measures that could be taken to improve it:
- •Ingushetia - Providing Shelter from the Cold
- •13. Translate from Russian into English:
- •14. Write or discuss the following questions:
- •Unit 9 globalisation
- •1. Read and translate Text 1:
- •Globalisation
- •2. Answer the following questions:
- •3. Find English equivalents in the text:
- •4. Match the columns:
- •5. Translate the text into English in writing:
- •6. Read and translate Text 2: The new world order
- •7. Answer the following questions:
- •8. Find English equivalents in the text:
- •9. Find the words in the text according to their definitions:
- •10. Match the columns:
- •10. During the Cold War, the West defined itself j) maintenance
- •11. Translate into English: Глобализация в экономике
- •12. Read and translate Text 3:
- •13. Answer the questions:
- •14. Find English equivalents in the text:
- •15. Match the columns:
- •16. Put each of the following words or phrases into its cottect place in the text below:
- •17. Render the text into English: Глобализация в политике
- •18. Tasks for writing and group discussion:
6. Read and translate Text 2: The new world order
Our world is getting meaner and as we have reached the new millennium, ideas about collective ways of solving social problems have lost ground to arguments that the rules of competition are inevitable in the face of globalization. The apparent inevitability of a meaner world is reinforced by the remarkable ideological convergence of political and economic institutions around the world. Where diversity in economic and political institutions was once tolerated, uniformity is now demanded by international institutions. Globalization provides a view of the world in which the interests of the powerful are defined as necessity, while the demands of the poor appear as greed which undermines economic success. The ideology that underpins globalization focuses on trade as the vehicle for improving the conditions of people everywhere. It is an old idea which sees the increasing integration of international economies as a positive step and one which would inevitably occur, if markets are not unduly hampered by governments. The restructuring associated with globalization doesn't even attempt to promise anything to those traditionally disadvantaged in our society: the unemployed cannot expect jobs, the poor cannot expect prosperity, and women and other disadvantaged people cannot expect equality.
The justification for economic change focuses solely on the competitive benefits for businesses that operate and compete internationally. Throughout the process of globalization the nation state has shifted its role from one which at least tempered the ability of the rich and powerful to dominate, to one which followed the path of least difficulty, by championing mainly the interests of the powerful. The changing nature of the state (or government) was itself made possible by the conditioning framework put in place by international political institutions. States are accepting and even actively pursuing globalization because international corporations want to create conditions for the free movement of capital, unfettered by the ability of nation states to inhibit business transactions. The world is being shaped to meet this need for predictable, market-friendly conditions wherever corporations and investors choose to operate.
The main point to understand from this is that the international economy has been designed with these giant players in mind and the new rules for action accommodate their best interests. Within industrialized nations, the ability of the state to control the actions of corporations appears to have been seriously restricted by the new international context of globalization. The great advantage of the new international rules of trade to multinational corporations is their ability to escape regulation of nation states. The trade agreements work toward establishing one giant global market, while, at the same time, limiting the role of the supranational institutions to market-creating activities.
Unlike the work of nation states, which over time have developed institutions either to correct the economy when the market did not function in an optimal way, such as during times of depression, or to control business, such as through labour or environmental legislation, the international replacements that are being created neither exert discipline on the market nor function as instruments of market-correction. These functions are still the responsibility of nations, but as multinational corporations become more mobile, the ability of corporations to escape the regulation of states increases. As nations compete with each other to have businesses locate in their own countries, the ability to control corporate activity comes into direct conflict with the increased mobility of these corporations. Unless nations agree to behave in the same way with regard to corporate behaviour, the corporations will not be disciplined in any serious way. Any one nation, by insisting on greater standards of corporate behaviour, will be disadvantaged and its corporations will claim that they are being made uncompetitive relative to other corporations in the international market. Since there is no mechanism for nations to act collectively, individual state action is critically weakened.
The new international trade agreements have facilitated the creation of a single market, without a single state to regulate it. In this sense, the growth in power of the corporate sector places nations in about the same stage of control over capital as they had at the dawn of the industrial revolution. Our national institutions are not equipped to cope with the nature of the changes which have taken place. The important point, however, is not that these changes in the control over capital were inevitable, but that the corporate sector worked hard over the years to see that they would occur.