Election Campaign. Role play

Imagine you are a candidate of one of the major parties: you have already been elected your party's official candidate for the presidency. Write your program and organize your election campaign. Persuade as many people in the group as possible to vote for you. Use the vocabulary of the unit.

Content

 

1. Study the text and answer the questions: Donetsk People's Republic. 3

1.1. 1.1. Study the topical vocabulary: 3

1.2. Read and translate the text: 3

1.3. Show you know: what happened on this day?. 6

2. Study the text and answer the questions: 7

DEFINING POLITICS. 7

2.1. Memorize the vocabulary from the following text: 8

2.2. Give Russian equivalents to the following word combinations. Combine your own sentence using any of the phrases below: 8

2.3. Study and fix in your dictionary different meanings for the following phrases. Key-words: ‘public’, ‘popular’, ‘community’, ‘communal’. 9

2.1. Study the text and answer the questions: 9

Different views of politics. 9

2.2. Memorize the vocabulary from the following text: 10

2.3. Answer the following questions: 10

2.4. Translate from English into Russian: 11

2.5. Translate into Russian in writing: 11

2.6. Propose English equivalents for the following phrases: 11

2.7. Translate from Russian into English: 11

2.8. Suggest English equivalents: 11

3.1. Study the text and answer the questions: 12

CONCEPTS, MODELS AND THEORIES. 12

3.2. Answer the questions below: 13

3.3. Give Russian equivalents to the following word combinations and memorize them. Combine your own sentences using any of the phrases below: 13

3.4. Comment on the following phrase: 13

3.5. Translate the following summary into Russian in writing, paying attention to the language of the summary. 13

3.6. Answer the following questions: 13

4.1. Study the text and learn the topical vocabulary: 14

WHAT IS POLITICAL IDEOLOGY?. 14

4.2. Do you consider the following statements are true or false?. 15

4.3. Work with the dictionary and consult the text. Match the following notions: rationalism, fundamentalism, economic liberalism, big government, pragmatism, meta-ideology, nanny state with the definitions: 15

4.4. Translate from English into Russian: 15

4.5. Translate from Russian into English: 15

5.1. Study the text and learn the topical vocabulary: 16

Liberalism and conservatism.. 16

5.2. Translate from English into Russian: 18

5.3. Translate from Russian into English: 18

5.4. Fill in the blanks with either ‘economic’ or ‘economical’: 18

5.5. Translate into English, using topical vocabulary: 18

6.1. Read and prepare the summary of the following text: 19

THE END OF IDEOLOGY?. 19

6.2. Answer the following questions: 19

7.1. Read and translate the text: 20

How the Presidential Electoral System Works in Russian Federation. 20

7.2. Find the translation and study all the words and word combinations. Write down all of them into your dictionary. 21

7.3. Find the synonyms of the following words: 22

7.4. Find the antonyms of the following words: 22

7.5. Find out the English explanation of the following phrases: 22

7.6. Complete the sentences according to the text: 22

7.7. Review the types of English questions. Put five questions of different types: general (3), alternative (1), special (2), tag questions (1). 22

7.8. Prepare the key words and the written summary of the text. 22

8.1. Read and translate the text. 22

Propose your title: 22

8.2. Study the following words and word combinations. Write down the transcription into your dictionary: 25

8.3. Find synonyms of the following words: 25

8.4. Find antonyms of the following words: 25

8.5. Find Russian equivalents of the following phrases and combine sentences of your own: 25

8.6. Prepare an additional material of any political leader. Make stress on the main traits of his character. Write down some questions you would like to ask a politician you have chosen. 25

8.7. Complete the following sentences according to the text above: 25

9.1. Study the text and answer the questions: 26

TRADITIONAL SYSTEMS OF CLASSIFICATION.. 26

9.2. Comprehension check. 27

9.3. Terminology: Match the notions with the definitions: 28

9.4. Translate from English into Russian: 28

9.5. Translate from Russian into English: 28

9.6. Find synonyms in the text for the following verbs and nouns: 29

9.7. Make the adjectives negative: 29

9.8. Paraphrase the following sentences, using the Gerund: 29

9.9. Translate the sentences using ‘can’t (couldn’t) help doing sth’ or ‘can’t/ couldn’t but do sth’ 29

9.10. Open the brackets, using the Gerund: 29

9.11. Translate into English: 30

9.12. Fill in the blanks, using the Passive Voice and the topical vocabulary of the Unit. 30

9.13. Fill in the blanks with prepositions: 31

9.14. Translate the text into English: 31

10.1. Study the text and the vocabulary: 32

REGIMES OF THE MODERN WORLD.. 32

10.2. Comprehension check A. 36

10.3. Terminology: 36

10.4. Translate from English into Russian: 37

10.5. Translate from Russian into English: 37

10.6. Translate into Russian paying attention to different functions of ‘one’ and ‘do’ in the sentences: 37

10.7. Fill in the blanks with: ‘accept’, ‘adopt’, ‘admit’, ‘receive’ and their derivatives. 38

10.8. Fill in the blanks using modal verbs can, could, should, may. 38

10.9. Replace clauses by the Gerundial phrases: 39

10.10. Use the correct form of the Gerund: 39

10.11. Supply the missing prepositions: 39

10.12. Translate into English: 39

10.13. Translate the sentences into Russian. Watch some uses of the Definite article: 41

10.14. Translate the words in brackets into English: 41

10.15. Translate the text into English: 42

10.16. Translate the text into Russian: 42

10.17. Comment on: 44

10.18. What do you think?. 44

10.19. Translate from English into Russian: 44

10.20. Questions for discussion: 44

11.1. Study the text and answer the questions. 45

DEFINING DEMOCRACY. 45

11.2. Answer the following questions: 46

11.3. Complete the following sentences: 46

11.4. Insert the English equivalents of the words in bold used in the text: 47

11.5. Find statements which are not true to the text. 47

11.6. Arrange the following words in pairs of synonyms. 47

11.7. Arrange the following words in pairs of antonyms and name the negative prefixes. 48

11.8. Read the following words and their derivatives and translate them into Russian. 48

11.9. Translate into Russian in writing Paragraphs 1 and. 48

11.10. Prepare the dictionary and annotation of the text. 48

12.1. Read and translate the text. 48

RIGHTS. 48

12.2. Answer the following questions: 50

12.3. Find in the text the beginnings for the following endings: 50

12.4. Fill in the blanks with words from the text: 50

12.5. Find the statements which are not true to the text: 51

12.6. Translate the following sentences in writing paying attention to emphatic constructions: 51

12.7. Arrange the following words in pairs of synonyms. 51

12.8. Arrange the following words in pairs of antonyms. 52

12.9. Look through the text and give a list of international words. 52

12.10. Summarize the contents of the text in 7 sentences. 52

13.1. Read and translate the text. 52

CONSTITUTION.. 52

13.2. Answer the following questions. 53

13.3. Complete the following sentences. 54

13.4. Fill in the blanks with the words from the text. 54

13.5. Agree or disagree with the following statements. 54

13.6. Translate the following sentences in writing into Russian paying attention to different functions of the verb «to be» 55

13.7. Translate the following sentences in writing into Russian. 55

13.8. Make up a short summary of the text. 55

13.9. Compare the U.S. Constitution with that of Ukraine Speak on their advantages and disadvantages 55

14.1. Read and translate the text. 56

ELECTIONS. 56

14.2. Answer the following questions. 57

14.3. Find the beginning for the following endings. 57

14.4. Fill in the blanks with words from the text. 58

14.5. Find in the text the definitions of the meanings of the following words. Translate them into Russian in writing 58

14.6. Translate the following sentences in writing. 58

14.7. Find in the text passive constructions and translate them.. 58

14.8. Give related words. 59

14.9. Summarize the text in three sentences. 59

15.1. Read the text. 59

POLITICAL PARTIES. 59

15.2. Explain the difference between the two major parties in the US. 60

15.3. Explain the meanings of the following expressions and give Russian equivalents for them.. 60

16.1. Read the text. 60

ELECTIONS. 60

16.2. Find in the text the English equivalents for the words and expressions below.. 61

16.3. Answer the questions. 61

16.4. Election Campaign. Role play. 62