- •Discussion:
- •Text a definition of terrorism.
- •Politicization of the term
- •Active vocabulary
- •Comprehension check
- •I. Answer the following questions to check how carefully you have read the texts:
- •II. Now decide whether the statement is true or false; correct those that are wrong:
- •III. Complete the sentence:
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •Consult the Topical Vocabulary and learn expressions with the word “terrorism”. Learn them by heart and use in the sentences of your own.
- •II. Find the odd word:
- •III.Translate the following sentences into Ukrainian /Russian:
- •IV. Give English equivalents of the following expressions:
- •IV. Complete the text with the words and word combinations from the box:
- •V. Translate the following text into English using words and word combinations from the text:
- •VI. Read and translate the following text without a dictionary:
- •VIII. What do these foreign expressions mean?
- •IX. Retell the texts using active vocabulary of the unit.
- •X. Write an essay or speak on the following topic:
- •International terrorism
- •I. Practice the pronunciation of the following words:
- •II. Practice the pronunciation of the following proper words:
- •International terrorism
- •Text b the purpose and the characteristics of terrorist activities
- •Active vocabulary text a
- •Comprehension check
- •I. Answer the following questions to check how carefully you have read the texts:
- •II. Now decide whether the statement is true or false; correct those that are wrong:
- •III. Finish the sentence.
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •I. Consult the Topical Vocabulary and learn expressions with the word “ atrocity”, “assault”,” assassination”. Learn them by heart and use in the sentences of your own.
- •II. Translate the following expressions into English and find sentences in the texts where
- •III. Improve your translation skills by translating the following sentences into English.
- •IV. Work in group discussing the following extract from the speech of the president of Russian Federation Vladimir Putin:
- •V. Read the following and discuss:
- •VII. Spread the following idea:
- •VIII. Retell the texts using active vocabulary of the unit. While retelling the text find the translation of the following discourse markers and be ready to use them.
- •IX. Write an essay or speak on the following topic:
- •Unit 3 significant terrorist incidents. The world after september 11.
- •Discussion:
- •5. What were the terrorists trying to achieve and why did they choose the usa?
- •I. Practice the pronunciation of the following words:
- •II. Practice the pronunciation of the following proper words:
- •Text a political and military consequences.
- •Introduction:
- •I. September 11, 2001: Chronological order
- •How the world reacted
- •United States of America
- •Germany
- •Other European states and Russia
- •Islamic and Arabian states
- •The Afghanistan War
- •Osama Bin Laden and al-Qaeda
- •The Taliban regime and the Northern Alliance
- •The Afghanistan War and its consequences
- •Text b economic consequences.
- •Consequences for companies
- •Economic consequences on entertainment industry
- •Economic consequences on tourism
- •Active vocabulary
- •Comprehension check
- •I. Answer the following questions to check how carefully you have read the texts:
- •II. Now decide whether the statement is true or false; correct those that are wrong:
- •III.Finish the sentence:
Comprehension check
I. Answer the following questions to check how carefully you have read the texts:
TEXT A
1. What does the definition of terrorism consist of?
2. What definition of terrorism is given by British Terrorism Act 2000 and
Current US national strategy?
3. What are further criteria that are sometimes applied to this definition?
4. What excludes such criteria as Target Objective Dominance?
5. What distinguishes terrorism from other kinds of coordinated violence?
6. How can the notion “terror” be defined in the framework of social order?7.
7. What is the tendency to use the term ‘terrorism”?
8. Does Chomsky agree that is used to describe a type of behavior?
9. Have the terms "terrorism" and "terrorist" lost any distinction with other
political terms in post- 9/11 Western society?
TEXT B
What objectives are usually pursued by terrorism?
What was the role and place of terrorism throughout centuries and throughout the world?
Can terrorism be used in the framework of a state policy? Speak of such cases in history.
Do you think terrorism is the only means of settling various conflicts in societies?
Speak of the role of communications media in terrorism's public impact.
TEXT C
1. Why is “state terrorism” a controversial term?
2. What are the reasons of supporting beneficionary terrorist organizations by
a patron state?
3. What is “state terrorism”?
4. What are the methods of state terror? Give examples.
5. What does “ethnic terrorism “involve?
6. What are the characteristic features of domestic and cyber terrorism?
Give examples.
7. What is the target of political terrorism?
8. What are the types of political terrorism?
II. Now decide whether the statement is true or false; correct those that are wrong:
TEXT A
Terrorist violence may be perpetrated by rebels in opposition to an established social order or it may be inflicted by a state upon its own citizens or those of another state.
Walter Laqueur: "Terrorism constitutes the illegitimate use of force to achieve a political objective when guilty people are targeted."
The Holocaust and other cases of genocide, which are undertaken to intimidate not to exterminate, and which are usually hidden rather than publicized.
Some, particularly political conservatives, claim that acts of "revolutionary" violence cannot be considered terrorist in nature.
Terrorism, can loosely be defined as the use of violence to bring about a change in a particular social order.
TEXT B
The practice of using terrorism in its form of unpredictable violence
throughout the contemporary world cannot be denied.
But for terror during the French Revolution Robespierre would have
never entered the period of his political dominance.
Technological advances of the 20th century brought no changes into the
practice of terrorism.
In order to encourage adherence to the national ideology and the declared
political goals of the state Nazi Germany put no obstacles to terrorism.
The anarchists of the 19th century were always close to the political
mainstream and put forward quite realistic demands.
Due to modern communications media, millions of viewers are directly
exposed to the terrorists' political goals.
TEXT C
States have established "puppet" terrorist organizations, whose purpose is to act on behalf of the sponsoring state, to further the interests of the state, and to represent its positions in domestic or regional fronts.
Unfair trial, torture and extrajudicial execution are said to be common practices of anarchist terror, often used to terrorize domestic populations by sovereign or proxy regimes.
According to Amnesty International (1997), in 1996, out of 150 countries surveyed, 28 had committed torture.
There is no distinction between terrorists that use available technology and the pure cyber-terrorists.
Terrorists either reject current moral values as the ideology of the status quo or they hold an amoral outlook, and they claim with their actions that humanitarian considerations can be sacrificed along with human life for a greater political end.