RADIO NEWSREPORTS

3 a). Form abstract nouns from these verbs.

3 b). Fill in the gaps with the help of the nouns formed above:

1.Following an initial _________ phase in which more than 1.7 million people were served, The Salvation Army continues to be active in recovery two years after the storms hit.

2.President Bush, in a sharp __________ with Congress, on Wednesday vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have dramatically expanded children's health insurance.

3.Federal drug safety officials have imposed the government’s most urgent _______ on

Bayer's and similar antibiotics, citing risks that they can cause.

4.The combination of_______ , backlash, and victim blaming can turn even a mild transgression into a major political event within an institution.

5.______ (also known as vengeance or payback) is a harmful action against a person or group in response to a grievance, be it real or perceived.

6.With daybreak the heavy _________________ recommenced from all the batteries.

7.Physical ___________ is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health and wellness.

8.The nuclear ___________ present during the Cold War has diminished.

4 a). Match the words

4 b) Write all possible combinations in the lines below.

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2)______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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3)______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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4)______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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5)______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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6)______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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4 c) Find the proper answers in the answer box in the end of Unit 2 and use them to fill the gaps in the sentences below.

1)In the early 1960s, as the world seemed to _______________________nuclear war, the Canadian public was deeply sceptical about the wisdom of Canada becoming a nuclear power.

2)Nuclear deterrence is based upon a believable and _____________of

nuclear ____________, and the threat of nuclear weapons use has been constant during the post World War II period.

3)In June, 2000 U.S. Navy battleships ___________________on a small island off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico in spite of the objections of local population who had vowed to use "human shields" to stop them.

4)The Germans are _______________________of supporting the Southern Europe welfare system which identifies the broken element of the faulty European Union.

5)The Government will never ____________________any terrorist ________________, and ensure that proper law and order is maintained in the State,” the Defence

Minister said.

5.Find the meaning of the idioms to teeter on the brink of war, to be sick and tired of something, to give fire-and-brimstone warning and use them in sentences of your own.

In Class

Listen to the Webcast Korean tension at dangerous levels and do the exercises.

1. Divide all these word combinations a live-fire military exercise, bombardment, a shelling exercise, barrage, military drill, shelling attack, artillery strikes into two columns.

Say what determined your decision. Write Keyword(s) in the heading line of the table below.

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2. Match the positions with the names.

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2.C – Comprehension Test 1

Listen to the Webcast Korean tension at dangerous level again and tick the correct answer.

2.B – Comprehension Test 2

Listen to the Webcast Korean Tension at dangerous Level, answer the questions and fill in the gaps

Part 1

1)What are the reasons to believe that a war may start on the Korean Peninsula?

2)What is especially worrisome about South Korea decision to start drills on Yeonpueong island?

3)Why has the UN convened a meeting?

4)How did US envoy Bill Richardson characterize the situation in general?

Part 2

Here's North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy.

MARK WILLACY: For Yoon Jin-young, the tension is _________. The 48 year old is packing up and getting off Yeonpyeong Island. After last month's bombardment by North Korea and the threat of more ________ strikes, he's too ________________to stay.

(Yoon Jin-young speaking)

"The residents here are getting more nervous, because our military is planning to hold a

________ exercise", says Yoon. "Now the North is threatening to ____________. So I'm worried. I'm now heading to the ferry to the mainland but it hasn't arrived yet. So we're all anxiously waiting for it," he says.

Part 3

When North Korea____________ Yeonpyeong Island last month the __________ killed four people, damaged dozens of homes, and left the Peninsula teetering on the _________ of war. Pyongyang says it opened fire ______response ___ a South Korean _________ exercise on the Yellow Sea Island.

Now the South wants to _________ another military drill on Yeonpyeong, drawing more fire- and-brimstone ___________________ from north of the border.

(Newsreader speaks)

"If the South conducts this shelling, despite our warnings, we will against them," says this

__________on state TV in Pyongyang. "These strikes will be greater in strength and

_____________than those we launched last month", he says.

Part 4

But many in the South are sick and tired of ____________before Pyongyang's ______________.

(Sound of protesters)

MARK WILLACY: Screaming _______ revenge __________ North Korea, these protesters on Yeonpyeong Island release balloons containing anti-Pyongyang messages.

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(Park Sang-hak speaking)

"We're here to let the North Korean people know the truth about the regime's_________," says protest leader and North Korean defector Park Sang-hak. "We'll tell them of the shelling attack on this island ________these leaflets", he says.

But with a population ___________information, food and political freedom that's unlikely to make much difference over the border in North Korea or to _______ the shells ____________

falling on the south.

2.A – Comprehension Test 3

Present the conflict between states on behalf of:

1)a South Korea representative

2)a North Korea representative

Use these words and word –combinations to render the story in the written form.

vow, to push ahead with a live-fire military exercise, grave threats of retaliation, shelled the island, convened a meeting, Yeonpyeong Island, bombardment, artillery strikes, a shelling exercise, barrage, teetering on the brink of war, another military drill, fire-and- brimstone warnings, conduct a shelling, greater in strength and scope, sick and tired, bowing before Pyongyang's threats, scream for revenge against North Korea, regime's brutality, shelling attack, leaflets, starved of information, to stop the shells from falling

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MODULE 2.REGIONAL CONFLICTS

Unit 3.

Britain in hot water over alleged Taliban meetings

At home

1 Find in the WWW the information about the following

a)What does the word Taliban mean? What country obtains classified information through Secret Intelligence Service? What are the responsibilities of the department called MI6?

b)Who are the people in the cartoon? What are they doing? What is the implicit message of the

depicted scene?

2 Look at the text title and complete the sentences trying to guess what endings they

might have in the text

Tensions are rising over ...

The row comes as ...

It raises the question of ...

One would normally associate it with….

3 a). Form abstract nouns from these verbs:

3 b). Fill in the gaps using the words from the table above:

1.The May 1928 Reichstag elections seemed to reflect the economic and political

________of the Weimar Republic.

2.The Minister’s resignation is an ______________of the fact that the leader of the government has lost all hope of getting the situation in the field improved.

3.___________from a UK independent school means permanent removal from the school.

4.The Commission has also described the practical measures which can be taken to bring about the verifiable _________of nuclear weapons and the full safeguarding of militarily usable nuclear material.

5.A scientist might be personally disappointed and embarrassed if one of his hypotheses was proven wrong, but would not normally suffer professional

___________as a result.

6.The capacity for ___________varies widely in animals, with some able to regenerate whole limbs and others not, but the capacity is reduced significantly in more complex animals.

7.Diplomats are skilled at solving even the most serious disagreements by means of

____________.

8.To most journalists the visit of the Prime Minister to this small town became a surprising __________.

4 a) Match these parts

4 b) Write all possible combinations in the lines below.

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4 c) Find the proper answers in the answer box in the end of Unit 3 and use them to fill the gaps in the sentences below.

1)The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Sudan is holding talks with government officials over the _________ _______of two UN representatives accused of espionage.

2)When Fiji's _________________________ came into effect in 1999, they were seen as a path towards ending the country's bitter racial divisions.

3)The former Office of Racial Ethnic Student Affairs has embraced a broader and more

___________ ___________ and has changed its name to the Office of Cultural and Language Affairs.

4)All attempts to unite rival ________________ ________ _________failed due to incompetence of the negotiators.

5)It’s also the responsibility of the interviewer to look out for contradictory or confusing answers and find the way to ____________ ________________________.

In Class

Listen to the Webcast Britain in hot water over alleged Taliban meetings and do the exercises below.

1. Match positions with the names

2. Group these words into two columns. Provide some arguments to justify your decision.

the Afghan Government, the United Nations, the European Union, Taliban insurgents, the Taliban, the European Union's mission, the Kabul administration, Helmand Province, the Civil War period, the Taliban period, America and Europe, a British newspaper, MI6, the British Prime Minister, the Taliban insurgency, Islamist groups, the Afghan Government, the Western forces.

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C. - Comprehension Test 1

Listen to the Webcast Britain in hot water over alleged Taliban meetings again and tick the correct answer.