Audiosheet

Ex. 1. Listen to the audios and provide consecutive translation.

Audio 20. Difficult words: at record number (на рекордному рівні), an asylum seeker (людина, яка просить притулку), forcibly (насильно, силою, примусово).

• In pairs / groups, talk about these topics or words from the article. What will the article say about them? What can you say about these words and your life?

       last year / refugees / increase / planet / asylum seeker / United Nations / country/ record / number / fighting / half / poor / middle income / big problems / borders

• Students A strongly believe all the world's borders should be open; Students B strongly believe this would be a disaster.  Change partners again and talk about your conversations.

• How can the following help refugees? Talk about this with your partner(s). Change partners often and share what you wrote.

• Leaders of countries at war

• Neighbouring countries

• The United Nations

• Rich people

• Big companies

• Religions

Audio 21. Difficult words: to cut staff (скорочувати персонал), to authorize freezes (ухвалили замороження), benefits (премії), austerity measures (жорсткі заходи економії), duplicative (повторний), in place (натомість).

U.N. ROLES: Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners often and share what you wrote.

Roles	What are they?	How can they be improved?
Health
Education
Peacekeeping
Global security
Human rights
Humanitarian aid

Audio 22. Difficult words: second-in-command (заступник), to champion a cause (боротися за якусь справу), to be in the driving seat (бути на керівній посаді), a lion’s share (левова доля), prior to (переел тим), credentials (досягнення), to undermine (ставити під сумнів).

• SECURITY COUNCIL: Talk to your partner(s) about the UN Security Council. What is it? Where do they meet? What do they do? What is the veto? Why does it happen? List the countries who have it.

• With your partner decide on three (different) things you would like to see discussed in the Security Council. Discuss.

1.

2.

3.

• SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:

a.	appointed	weaken
b.	deputy	qualifications
c.	immensely	advocated
d.	championed	demands
e.	the lion’s share of	named
f.	prior to	develop
g.	credentials	second-in-command
h.	rigors	the bulk of
i.	unfold	before
j.	undermine	extremely

Audio 23. Difficult words: to herald (передвіщати), a foe (ворог), to contradict (протирічати).

• DANGER TO THE WORLD: Rank these and share your rankings with your partner. Put the most dangerous at the top. Change partners often and share your rankings.

  • nuclear conflict   • global warming   • cyber-war   • lack of education

  • corporate greed   • terrorism   • overpopulation   • water scarcity

• UNITED NATIONS: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the United Nations. Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories.

• SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article.

1.	addressed	a.	go against
2.	constructive	b.	look for
3.	seek	c.	is
4.	mutual	d.	belief
5.	herald	e.	talked to
6.	doctrine	f.	vital
7.	contradict	g.	reciprocal
8.	imperative	h.	helpful
9.	expel	i.	signal
10.	poses	j.	get rid of

Audio 24. Difficult words: to take actions (приймати міри), a hydrogen bomb (воднева бомба), credibility (довіра).

• Complete this table about countries with nuclear weapons with your partner(s). Change partners often and share what you wrote.

  	Reasons for having nuclear weapons	Dangers
  USA
  Pakistan
  Russia
  Israel
  China
  France

• Rank these with your partner. Put the biggest threats to the world at the top. Change partners often and share your rankings.

• nuclear weapons   • religious wars   • global warming   • Internet breakdown

• viruses   • Artificial Intelligence   • loss of biodiversity   • asteroids

Video 2. Watch Part 3 of Trump’s inaugural speech. Provide consecutive translation. Difficult words: bedrock (основа), law enforcement (правоохоронні органи), to strive (процвітати), to harness (використовувати), urban sprawl (у межах міста), windswept plains (рівнини незахищені вітром), infused (надхненні).

Video 3. Provide consecutive translation of Leonardo DiCaprio’s at the opening of Climate Summit. Difficult words: fictitious (вигаданий), undeniable (незаперечний), a drought [draut] (засуха), our oceans are acidifying with methane plumes rising up from the ocean floor (наші океани окисляються метановими газами, що піднімаються з дна океана), to be vilified by (спаплюжений чимось), carbon emissions (викиди вуглекислого газу), a free ride (додатковий дохід), scrutiny (ретельне дослідження), renewable energy (джерела альтернативної енергії), a partisan bebate (проблема прибічників).

Video 4. Provide consecutive translation. Difficult words: military readiness (боєва готовність), to halt hostilities (припиняти військові дії)