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1. Перепишите в ваши словари следующие слова и словосочетания, расположив их в алфавитном порядке, протранскрибируйте, переведите и выучите их.

Society, work-setting, life-style, respectful, common-sense knowledge, to depend on (upon), experience, to go beyond, to invent, to interact, social environment, aspiration, competency, satisfaction, anxiety, identity, to behave, to observe, to pursue goals, to interpret experience, to confront difficulties, activity.

2. Определите значения слов, не пользуясь словарем.

Aspect, social situation, to interview, interpretation, fragmentary, critical, systematic, category, context, process, abstract, historical, individual, elementary, organization, structure, potential, conflict, character

3. Прочитайте и устно переведите весь текст. Перепишите и письменно переведите 1 абзац текста.

Some aspects of society are well known to most people and almost everyone has some specialized knowledge of a social situation: a family, a work setting, or a life-style. A social worker is respectful of this common-sense knowledge and he often depends upon it — for instance, by interviewing people to learn about their experiences and interpretations.

A human being always interacts with his social environment. Social workers study men and groups in action. The acting person is a specific human being who pursues goals, interprets experience, responds to opportunities and confronts difficulties. A social worker gives a large share of his attention to discovering how persons and groups relate to each other.

Social organization is the pattern of individual and group relations. It is helpful to think of three levels of social organization.

A) An interpersonal relation is the most elementary social bond, occurring when two persons stand in some relation to each other. Interpersonal relations are the building blocks of social structure.

B) Group relations. From common-sense point of view, a group is composed of people. From a sociological perspective a group is an organization of roles and modes of interactions.

C) A social order. A social order exists when an entire community or society for a significant period of history is characterized by distinctive and interwoven patterns of social organization. A social order is a type of society.

4. Ответьте на вопросы по тексту.

1. What aspects of society are well known to most people? 2. What does a social worker depend upon by interviewing people to learn about their experiences and interpretations? 3 What does a human being always interact with? 4. Whom do social workers study? 5. What aspects of society are well known to most people? 6. What are the levels of social organization?

5. Задайте к тексту 5 вопросов различных типов.

6. Прочитайте и переведите следующие предложения. Выпишите и письменно переведите те, которые соответствуют содержанию текста.

1. An interpersonal relation is one of the most elementary social bonds. 2. A social order is a type of society. 3. To understand how people behave the social context must be closely observed. 4. Some aspects of society are well known to some groups of people. 5. A human being always interacts with his social environment.

7. Дайте русские эквиваленты к следующим словосочетаниям.

Common-sense knowledge, basic structure, human experience, nature of things, everyday life, social environment, an acting person, to pursue goals, to confront difficulties.

8. Поставьте всевозможные вопросы к следующему предложению.

A human being always interacts with his social environment.