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Q2
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Q3
A3 ( you may continue when necessary)
Host’s conclusion
Home Task 3.
1)fill in the flowchart from task 3.
2)prepare to participate in the event from PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION task.
GETTING READY FOR PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION
Processing Discourse Features
6a
Analyse the interview -specific means of steering the discourse.
Highlight those you observe in the interview. Focus on reformulations and put a tick in the appropriate box.
topic changes
REFORMULATIONS
discourse planning
stressing
hedging
backchanneling
6b
Consider some 2-3 examples
Decide whether 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?
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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.
1)Zeinab Badawi: Do you put them all in the same category?
2)______________________ you have talked about 2% of family doctors in the UK (GPs).... They are the bottom of that 1% _______________________
are they undeserving?
3)Zeinab Badawi: But they pay 30 % of income tax. Danny Dorling:________________________________________
4)Zeinab Badawi: _________________________________, isn't there? Of what you say, the bankers' pay is hardly being in front of the newspapers.
5)Zeinab Badawi: _______________________, there are steps being taken and there is legislation that comes through the European parliament.
6)Danny Dorling: Europe is trying to do that. Our government is resisting it.
7)Zeinab Badawi: _______________________, that is going through the course at the moment.
6d
Express positive and negative attitude to the thought given below, using the means of expressing one’s attitude and means of steering the discourse you wrote above.
Behind every great fortune is a crime.– Honore de Balzac, French novelist
Professional Communication
GROUP DISCUSSION
Before you start considers the following:
1)What categories of population live on the breadline? What does it mean to live below the poverty line?
2)Does the understanding of wealth differ from one social stratum to another?
3)Are the wealthiest people of the world always willing to help people in
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need?
4)What forms of charity are aimed at helping impoverished people all over the world?
5)What are the poorest countries of the world?
Discussion 1
Group A: You are journalists who work for Time Inc. Network. Recently Time wrote a reply to an Oxfam study on inequality stating that the richest 1% at the end of 2016 will own more than half of the world’s assets. However, Time points out that the data the study is based on is taken from a previous study from Credit Suisse. In this study, The Global Wealth Databook 2015, calculates personal assets in net worth, meaning wealth will be negated by having mortgages.
Find out more about the oligarch's earnings for your next study and scoop for counter arguments to the recent article of Time
Group B: You are Russian oligarchs living in London. You believe that those with £100m do not feel wealthy. You are 'urgently' seeking a new home worth £20million. You agree with Time and would like to appear on its cover one day. Charity is on one hand attractive to contribute to your image. On the other hand, you believe you don't have much money amid collapse of rouble.
Decide how much information about yourself you are ready to tell to Time.
In -Group Discussion 2
Group C: You work for Oxfam
Oxfam is an international confederation of 17 organizations working in approximately 94 countries worldwide to find solutions to poverty and what it considers injustice around the world
Decide what country you are going to help and what is the aim of your struggle-poverty project.
Funds are raised via three different sources:
Shops: there are 51 shops throughout Ireland selling goods donated by the public
Government: the Irish Government allocated over €3.7m to Oxfam work in 2008–2009.
Private donors, Corporate and Institutional funding: supporters who donate regularly via direct debit or to special appeals.
Discuss which of the above-mentioned three is most reliable and will definitely help to solve the problem. Consider Russian oligarchs as a separate
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category.
Group Discussion 3
Group A, B, C meet to discuss the Oxfam project.
Group C: Present your project, describe you fund-raising ideas and the needs to Russian oligarchs and media corps. (You need about €3,5 mln)
Group B
As a Russian oligarchs you would like to participate in a charity project to improve your own image and the image of your country of origin. But you know these fund-raisers and do not want to waste money. Besides you hope that other wealthy guests could donate more than you. So you provide the reasons why you can’t give more than €500 000.
Group A
Present your findings to Oxfam.
Push the wealthy guests donate as much as possible referring to the facts you fished up during the first meeting with them.
Group Discussion Moderator
Present the reason for the meeting. Introduce the guests to each other. Moderate the discussion and help the charity. Summarize the decisions made during the discussion and present the outcomes.
Нome Task 4
Learn words and phrases given in the Unit 8. Use the words and expressions from Glossary Unit 8.
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QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSIONS
Module 1. Global Conflicts and Terrorism
1)What do governments learn from terrorism?
2)What countries around the world have terrorist attacks within their borders?
3)Is there a difference between a freedom fighter and a terrorist?
4)Is the name “war on terror” a correct name?
5)If a country repeatedly kills innocent civilians while trying to kill terrorists, does that country take part in terrorism?
6)Do you think news stations are neutral when they report on terrorism?
7)Do you think terrorism is here to stay?
8)What three adjectives would you choose to describe terrorism?
9)Which is worse, terrorism or climate change?
10)What do you think of the fact that trillions of dollars are spent fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, but only millions are spent on killer diseases like malaria and AIDs?
11)Is there a difference between a country’s national hero, who may have killed innocents for his country’s independence, and a terrorist?
12)Do you think terror groups will one day get hold of nuclear and chemical weapons?
13)What is state sponsored terrorism?
14)Is it better (and cheaper) to tackle the roots of terrorism rather than fight unbelievable expensive wars?
15)What do you understand by the term ‘cyber-terrorism’? How dangerous is it?
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Module 2. Regional conflicts. Security Issues
1)How important is national security for a country?
2)What kinds of security measures are there at your university?
3)What do you think of airline security?
4)If you had to choose between security and freedom, which would you go for?
5)Someone once said: "Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all." Do you agree?
6)Britain's Lord Acton said: "The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities." Do you agree with this?
7)Do you have all the security you need?
8)What would life be like with little security?
9)Do you get nervous going through airport security?
10)What do you think of new security measures adopted after the 9-11 attacks?
11)What do you do for your Internet security ?
12)What does the UN Security Council do? How effective is it?
13)Does your country provide good social security if you have no job or home?
14)Douglas MacArthur said: "There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity." Do you agree with this?
15)Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: "True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence." Do you agree?
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Module 3. International law and Human Rights
1)Do you feel you have all the human rights you need?
2)Does your government have a good record on human rights?
3)Which countries do you think have the worst human rights records and why do you think this is so?
4)Do you think all people in the world are equal and everyone deserves the same rights?
5)Which people in your country have ‘more equal rights’ than others?
6)Do you think each government should have a minister/secretary for human rights?
7)Are you interested in reading and watching news stories on human rights?
8)Do you give money to human rights charities?
9)Do you think people should visit countries with bad human rights records? 10)How can the world make sure human rights are protected?
11)Do unborn children have human rights?
12)Do you think everyone in the world will one day have the same human rights? 13)How would the world be different if all human rights were respected?
14)Do religions respect human rights?
15)Do you always respect other people’s rights?
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Module 4. Economic and Social Issues
1)What are the very newest economic and social issues to arise in your country?
2)Do you think Hollywood and the music industry are good at focusing attention on social issues? Does it help national economy to grow?
3)What social issues has become more acute due to the war on terror?
4)Is your government good at dealing with and tackling social issues?
5)Do social issues ever affect rich people, or are they simply poor people’s problems?
6)What is the first thing you would like the government to do for the population ?
7)What social issues were around in the past but have now gone?
8)What social issues has the Internet created? How is your society dealing with these?
9)Are social issues as urgent as economic issues and environmental issues?
10)Would you like a job that involves addressing social issues?Why?
11)How are social issues different in America, China, the Arab world, India, etc?
12)What new social issues do you think will arise in the future?
13)Do you believe that one day all social issues will be gone?
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GLOSSARY
Unit 1.
1)belligerents on both sides
2)civilian casualties
3)indiscriminate weapons
4)barrel bombs
5)accommodate conditions
6)command responsibility
7)commons of the world
8)improve one’s standing
9)devastating effect
10)collateral damage
11)use indiscriminate weapons notoriously
12)say to us explicitly
13)suffer badly at the hands of…
14)deliberately and viciously attack
15)heavily bombed
16)criticise harshly
17)give a false choice
18)target smb (about weapons)
19)a failed state
20)peaceful demonstrations
21)eliminate (rivals, the opposition, the middle ground)
22)the likes of Al-Qaeda
23)lose control of
24)handle the crisis, handling of the crisis
25)a political tactic
26)shoot oneself in the foot
27)I'm just pointing at the contradiction in …
28)I'm curious that
29)that suggests to me surely
30)Can we talk about...a little bit..?
31)Can we briefly go back to...
32)that adds up to...
Unit 2.
1)government official
2)respect for the human rights
3)signs of tortures
4)commit a terrorist attack
5)detain people
6)make a public statement
7)address the people
8)destroy towns
9)reform the approach
10)neglect poverty
11)root out corruption
12)secure areas
13)possible attack
14)adequate to the challenge
15)credible information
16)official sources
17)civilian population
18)desperate poverty
19)systematic corruption
20)completely impotent
21)extra judicial
22)You have to keep me an opportunity to ask…
23)Can I tell you something…
24)I think we have…
25)What I am telling you…
26)Stop for a second…
27)That is the problem…
28)In this particular case…
29)For some reason…
30)On a regular basis…
Unit 3
1)prospects for peace
2)would it be fair to suggest
3)recognize legitimacy
4)to be embarrassing
5)to accept the notion
6)to be open for discussion
7)to be dominated by
8)ebbs and flows
9)to point blank
10)to be prudent from ……. point of view
11)lion share
12)to encourage the system
13)to facilitate violations of
14)reconciliation commission
15)to impose central rule
16)run affairs
17)from intelligence data available to smb
18)to have grave doubts
19)to commit acts of violence
20)to facilitate militants across the border
21)there is (not) a shortage of
22)combat forces
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23)to be convicted of involvement in
24)to exaggerate the threat
25)in a long run
26)lost opportunity
27)to require legal cover
28)to advocate a solution
29)to voice a statement
30)to manage control
31)internal security environment
32)we get back to that
33)it suggests to me
34)what is my evidence?
35)it’s interesting you say
36)you are not prepared to
Unit 4
1)common grounds
2)to be reluctant to provide
3)the turning point of
4)to anticipate a quick victory
5)to lead to deterioration
6)idp – internally displaced person
7)to fight on behalf of
8)desperate need
9)engaging line with
10)to have an upper hand
11)to underestimate the power
12)mere responsibility
13)to be responsive
14)the pathway to go
15)to airdrop aid
16)to make gains
17)defeat of the army
18)constant fighting
19)push one back
20)seize territory
21)to be taken by surprise
22)intelligence estimates
23)to tackle a threat
24)combat troops from outside
25)to expand strike against critical targets
26)to favour one faction over the other one
27)to be deprived of receiving aid
28)Sunni and Shiite (Shiah, the Shiahs)
29)to contribute to a better situation
30)would that make less likely
31)in terms of whether or not
32)go ahead, sorry
Unit 5
1)withdraw from active politics
2)enjoy spiritual blessing
3)enjoy popular support
4)strengthen and sustain one’s cause
5)to seek genuine autonomy
6)lay plans for finding money
7)advocate violence
8)starve oneself to death
9)to have a long-term view
10)to adopt a strategy
11)to enjoy spiritual blessing
12)to lay plans for smth
13)to withdraw from active politics
14)to seek genuine autonomy
15)to abandon a policy
16)to advocate violence
17)pay due respect
18)the country of the rule of law
19)spiritual leader
20)create awareness of smth
21)ultimate authority
22)liberation struggle
23)hunger strike
24)sacred duty
25)to hold key cards
26)to bring down the dictatorship
27)the point is well-taken
28)to be specific about it
29)let’s figure that out
30)a fair point
Unit 6
1)to campaign for black people rights
2)racial prejudice
3)fully integrated society
4)suppress the civil rights movement
5)channel anger into non-violent civil rights protest
6)controversial separatist movement
7)institutionalization of economic injustice
8)black unemployment rate
9)reach equality
10)to confess to racism
11)to channel anger into non-violent civil rights protest
12)militant
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