Питання для самоконтролю:

1When were the first constitutions adopted?

2. What was the first prototype of modern constitutions?

3. When was the Main Law of Ukraine adopted?

4. What does the Constitution include?

5. Why should pupils and students study the Constitution?

Контрольні завдання до самостійної роботи № 12

I рівень

І. Знайдіть еквівалентні слова:

1) to conform to a. поважати

2) with pride б.судовий

3) to be deeply rooted in the past в. відповідати

4) to adopt г. з гордістю

5) in expulsion д. глибоко укоренятися у минуле

6) separation е. у вигнанні

7) legislative є. законодавчий

8) executive ж. прийняти

9) judicial з. виконавчий

10) to respect і. відділення

ІІ. Поставте знак "+", якщо ви згодні та знак "-", якщо незгодні з наступними твердженнями.

1. The constitution of the young independent state of Ukraine is the exception.

2. The first constitutions were adopted at the end of the eigh­teenth century.

3. The Constitution of Ukraine includes the preamble and 103 clauses.

4. The Constitution of the USA was adopted in 1887.

5. In 1791 the Constitutions of France and Poland were adopted.

II рівень

ІІІ.Завершіть речення, вставляючи потрібне слово замість крапок.

1) The first constitutions were ______at the end of the eigh­teenth century.

2) But long before, in 1710, in Bendery city Cossack Rada and _____ ____, Getman of Ukraine in expulsion, adopted the document which was the first ________ of modern con­stitutions.

3) It was called «Pacts and Constitutions of Laws and Freedoms of ______ Troops». 4) This Constitution included the ________ and 16 paragraphs.

5) The main ________ of construction of the Ukrainian state were formulated there: the role of orthodoxy in state and _________, the independence of Ukraine from Poland and Mos­cow.

ІІІ рівень

ІY. Дайте відповіді на наступні запитання.

1. When were the first constitutions adopted?

2. What was the first prototype of modern constitutions?

3. When was the Main Law of Ukraine adopted?

4. What does the Constitution include?

5. Why should pupils and students study the Constitution?

Iy рівень

Розкажіть про Конституцію України та про історію її виникнення.

Самостійна робота № 13

Тема: Політична система України.

Основні питання, що розглядаються:

1. Політична система України.

2. Незалежність України.

3. Перші вибори в Україні.

Література:

1. Ярцева А.В. Английский язык. Устные темы для учащихся 6-11 классов и абитуриентов. – Харьков: «Ранок», 1999. – 37с.

2. Мясоедова С.В. Английский язик. Разговорные темы. – Харьков: «Мир детства», 1998. – 15с.

3. Гужва Т.Н. Английские разговорные темы: для абитуриентов и учащихся средних школ, лицеве и колледжей. 3-е издание, испр. и доп. – Киев: Тандем, 1999. – 140с.

Студент повинен знати:

1. Політичну систему України.

2. Здобуття незалежності в Україні.

3. Виборчу система України.

4. Лексичний мінімум.

Студент повинен вміти: розповісти про політичну систему України.

THE UKRAINIAN POLITICAL SYSTEM

The Ukrainian political system has a popularly-elected President, a 450-person one-chamber national Parliament (Verkhovna Rada), and a Prime Minister, nominated by the President and subject to approval by the Rada. The new post-Soviet Constitution was adopted by Verkhovna Rada on June 28, 1996.

Politically, Ukraine has made tremendous strides toward establishing a stable, tolerant and open democratic society in its years of independence. Ukraine achieved independent state­hood when its citizens approved the December 1, 1991 inde­pendence referendum and the Soviet Union ceased to exist on December 31, 1991.

After centuries of Soviet and Tsarist repression, Ukraine today has a largely free press, freedom of religion and elections that led to the first peaceful, democratic change of leaders in Ukrainian history.

Ukraine held its first presidential elections as an inde­pendent country in June and July, 1994. In those elections former Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma defeated Ukraine's first President, Leonid Kravchuk.

Among the key issues, facing President Kuchma, are the rapid implementation of crucial economic reforms, the resolution of disputes over the status of Crimea and the Russian naval bases there, language and cultural issues related to Ukraine's ethnic Russian minority (approx. 25 per cent of the population), relations with Moscow and with the West.

Elections to Ukraine's one-chamber 450-seat Parliament (the Supreme Council, or Verkhovna Rada) were held in March, 1994.

Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz was elected Chair­man of the Parliament. The Socialists, Communists and Agrarians collectively received about a third of the seats in the Rada.

Vocabulary

to make strides — робити успіхи

tremendous — великий

to cease [sirs] — припинити

elections — вибори

key issue— головні питання

implementation — здійснення, виконання

crucial— вирішальний

chairman — голова