- •Язык профессионального общения:
- •Starter activity
- •Reading one
- •Moral Re-armament: History and Challenges
- •1. Give definitions of the following words and word-combinations, make use of a dictionary. Reproduce the situations they are used in the text.
- •Reading two Britain’s Moral Crisis
- •Starter activity
- •Reading one What Makes People Volunteer
- •Speech activities
- •Reading two
- •Nurse Nicky Nears Her Peak of Fitness
- •Reading one Who Uses Drugs and Why?
- •2. Check and compare your answers with your partner. Language Focus
- •Reading two
- •Europe: Drugs – Adapting To New Realities
- •Reading three
- •They're toking up for algebra class. Teenagers need incentives to keep it clean
- •Reading four
- •Partnering Against Trafficking
- •Discussion
- •Imagine you are the head of a Charity Fund. Write a report about the charity activities your fund is performing. Functional vocabulary
- •Phrases related to the topic
- •Speech Functions Bank
- •I. Interrupting People
- •Reading One Status of Women
- •Status of women and girls around the world: facts and figures (provided by the Global Fund for Women)
- •Violence
- •Insert prepositions or particles where necessary.
- •Reading two Schoolbooks and the female stereotype
- •Reading One The Qualities to Look for in a Wife
- •Reading two What’s wrong with marrying for Love
- •Reading three
- •I’m your Equal, Partner!
- •Is your relationship out of balance? Scared to stick up for yourself? It's time for a change
- •Imagine you are having a row with your male partner/husband. Work in pairs and try to make it up with the help of the Five r’s.
- •Reading One Careers and Marriage
- •1. Explain the meaning of the word combinations used in the text:
- •3. What practical tips for having a stable and fruitful marriage were given in the text? Discuss them in pairs. Reading two They'll Never Go Home Again
- •1. Answer the questions:
- •Reading three The Frustrated Housewife
- •Insert a preposition or a particle where necessary.
- •Interview several working and staying-at-home mothers about their attitude to the problems raised in the text. Present the findings of your questionnaires in class and analyse the results together.
- •Role-play. Discuss the problem.
- •General Discussion
- •Phrases related to the topic
- •I. Asking for and Giving Opinions
- •2. Use appropriate language from the boxes above to ask for and give opinions in the following situations.
- •2. Explaining and Justifying
- •1. Make the following into statements explaining and justifying using the language from the box above.
- •2. Use appropriate language from the box above to make statements explaining and justifying in the following situations.
- •1. Asking for Clarification
- •2. Giving Clarification
- •1. Make the following into questions and statements asking for and giving clarification.
- •2. Ask for and give clarification in the following situations.
- •1. Make the following into statements of agreement and disagreement using the language in the boxes above.
- •Reading one Censorship Debate
- •Insert particles or prepositions where necessary. Translate the sentences into Russian/Belarusian.
- •Reading two bbc Chiefs Order Tough Curb on tv Sex and Violence
- •Reading three
- •Is Film Censorship Necessary?
- •Insert particles or prepositions where necessary. Translate the sentences into Russian/Belarusian.
- •Reading four Censorship – What and by Whom?
- •Insert particles or prepositions where necessary. Translate the sentences into Russian/Belarusian.
- •Reading two
- •Public Concerns
- •Did he follow this pattern? ________
- •Reading three Paying the Price for News
- •Functional vocabulary
- •Phrases related to the topic
- •The power of the media Speech Functions Bank
- •I. Expressing Preferences
- •II. Talking about likes and Interests.
- •Starter activity
- •Reading one Ten Ways to find the best schools
- •Bruce Kemble. News Week. 2002 Language focus
- •A Whitehall checklist;
- •Speech activities
- •Reading two Slimmed-down School Curriculum Aims to Free Quarter of Timetable for Pupils Aged 11 to 14
- •Reading three High-Stakes Games
- •Reading four
- •5 Times More Florida Kids to Repeat Third Grade State's New Policy Links Promotion to Reading Test Scores
- •Reading one Why Parents Choose to Opt out of State System
- •In the following sentences use the right particle with the verb to put:
- •Reading two
- •Reading three The City – as- School
- •Imagine that a friend of yours is considering sending his/her child to a non-government school (institute) you are working in. Write a letter either encouraging or discouraging him/her.
- •Reading one Survey Results Detail What Top Entry Level Employers Want Most
- •Reading two Employers Still Prefer Traditional Degrees Over Online Learning, Study Finds
- •Insert prepositions or particles where necessary.
- •In groups of 3 or 4 prepare and stage a debate on the prospects of online learning. For more ideas read the supplementary texts and visit the relevant web sites.
- •Reading three Two in Three Trainee Teachers who Qualify 'Are not up to the Job'
- •Functional vocabulary
- •Phrases related to the topic
- •Speech Functions Bank
- •1. Asking for More Detailed Information
- •1. Make the following into questions or statements asking for more detailed information using the language in the box above.
- •2. Use appropriate language from the box above to ask for more detailed information in the following situations.
- •2. Making Comparisons
- •1. Make the following into statements of comparison using the language in the box above.
- •2. Use appropriate language from the box above to make statements of comparison about the following.
- •3. Making generalisations
- •2. Use appropriate language from the box above to make generalisations about the following.
Speech activities
Answer the following questions. For this you must also read the text ‘Nurse Nicky Nears her Peak of Fitness’
What is voluntary work in your opinion?
What makes people volunteer?
What is the range of voluntary activities of the crew members of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution?
What are the rewards the volunteers get for their work?
What does Iakarea Islam do to make his desire come true?
What inspired Chris Baddock to visit housebound people in West London?
What does Chris get out of volunteering?
How did Joan Gaden happen to get involved into voluntary work? What had she been doing before?
What was one of Felicity Dick’s motives behind her involvement with charity work? What does she do?
Have you ever done voluntary work? Tell us about your experience.
What do the following phrases tell you about? Develop the idea, comparing with your experience.
Voluntary activities range from rattling collection boxes in the streets to sitting as a Justice of the Peace, from improving wildlife habitat to manning telephone helplines for children and parents.
At the grassroots there is some disquiet about the changing culture of voluntary work..
Working for local authorities along the lines they prescribe could make the voluntary organizations lose what made them special in the first place.
Listening Comprehension
Listen to these four charity appeals and for each of the charities say:
which people it tries to help;
why people need help;
how the charity tries to help them;
the charity’s attainments and problems.
Which charity organization appeals to you most? Give your arguments.
If you had $ 1000 that you wanted to give to charity, which of these four would you give to? How would you divide the money?
What do you know about British, Belarusian, American charity organizations? Make use of the supplementary text “USA: Warrior Bucks in the Concrete Jungle”.
How is voluntary work promoted in your country, in the UK, in the USA?
Make up dialogues.
Between two young people sharing their experience of voluntary work.
Interview a voluntary worker about the way he got involved with charity work Prepare a questionnaire beforehand.
Imagine that you have just visited a third world country with appalling problems. Share your views with like-minded people to start some charity work.
Share your views with like-minded people to start some charity work.
Take five minutes to think of your ideas, arrange your arguments, consider your strategy. Then argue on one of the following problems.
Charity begins at home (English proverb).
We give to other people not for the good we wish to do them but for the good we wish to do for ourselves (French writer, XVIII c.).
Cleaning my own slate is a daily ongoing matter which I take very seriously.
We seem to be locked into a culture of blame.
Has the permissive society really become the civilised society?
What measures should be taken by a government to promote charity work? (make use ofthesupplementary text “USA: Warrior Bucks in the Concrete Jjungle”). What is being done in this respect in Belarus?
How much is moral re-armament determined by volunteering?