Unit_4
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The UNICEF Introduction
Ex. 17 |
Answerthefollowing questions. |
1.What doesthe UNICEF stand for?
2.What are the main functionsofthe organization?
3.What other UN sub-organizationsdo you know?
Ex. 18 |
Watchthevideo episodeand makea timelineof theUNICEF history. |
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Watching: UNESCO Annual Report
Ex. 19 
QUESTIONS 1-2. Choose the correctletter(A,B orC).
1.What reasonsdoesthe reporter give for a relatively high dropping out rate from school today?
A.widening gap between the rich and the poor in the world.
B.growing school attendance.
C.inadequate teacher training.
2.The UNESCO global monitoring report hasestablished that
A.there’smore investment in education than before.
B.the educational standardsare rapidly improving.
C.the target of universal education by 2015 provesto be within reach.
QUESTIONS 3-7. Match each figure with the corresponding statement.
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… countrieshave been included into the survey. |
Ex. 20 
Which countriesdo you think boast the highest educational standards? Explain your choice.
What isbeing done to reform (y)our national educational system? What isthe reaction of the society?
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Hometask: Challenging Future
Ex. 21 |
Decidewhetherthefollowing statementsaretrue orfalse, correct |
thefalseones andjustifyyour answerbyrelevant information from thevideo.
1)In 75 yearsthe Earth hasbeen more radically changed than by all previousgenerations of humanity.
2)In the last 60 yearsthe Earth’spopulationhasalmost doubled and over three billion people have moved to the cities.
3)Shenzhen with itsdozensof skyscrapersand thousandsof inhabitantswasjust a small fishing village barely 40 yearsago.
4)Bad harvestsand famine became a distant memory.
5)The green housesof Almeria in Slovenia are Europe’svegetable garden.
6)Our agriculture feedstwice asmany humanson Earth and hassubstituted diversity for standardization.
7)Distancesare no longer counted in milesbut in minutes.
8)The more the world develops, the smaller itsthirstfor energy.
Ex. 22 Fill in thegaps withthewords from the video episode.
1.After relying on …………………………… for so long,…………………………… found a way
……………………………into the energy …………………………… deep in the Earth.
2.With oil began the ……………………………of humanswho breakfree ……………………………
of time.
3.The world’sfirst …………………………… isthe symbol of the ……………………………of the energy the Earth …………………………… to human genius.
4.America wasthe first …………………………… the phenomenal revolutionary powerof
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5.The pocket of sunshine’senergy …………………………… the spectre of ……………………………
that …………………………… farmland.
6.……………………………of trucksfrom every cornerof the country bringsin tonsof
……………………………, soy meal and protein-rich……………………………that will become tonsof meat.
7.The whole planet isattentive to these ……………………………of our hopesand
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8.We know that the end of ……………………………oilis……………………………, but we
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Ex. 23 Answerthefollowing questions.
1)What freed humansfrom their toil on the land?
2)How much energy doesone litre ofoilgenerate?
3)What encouraged the development of parasites?
4)Where did toxic pesticidespenetrate?
5)How many litresof water doesit take to produce one kilo of potatoes, one kilo of rice or one kilo of beef?
6)What isthe new measure of time?
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7)Why do the daysin LosAngelesseem no more than the pale reflection of nights?
8)What hasbecome the symbol of comfort andprogress? What wouldhappen if this model were followed by every society?
Ex. 24 Makea summaryof thevideo.
Ex. 25 
What isyour vision of the distant future?
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Hometask Role-Play: Global Kids
Ex. 25 Introductoryinformation:
Parents in developed countries concerned about their children’s happy and safe future believe that it is no longer enough to raise children who are brave, curious, hardworking, and compassionate. Nor is it sufficient to steer them toward the right sports, the right tutors, the right internships, and thusengineer their admittance to the right (or at least a good enough) college. According to the latest trends, parents who really care about their children must also ponder this: are we doing enough to raise “global” kids?
It has become a convention of public discourse to regard rapid globalization—of economies and business; of politics and conflict; of fashion, technology, and music—as the great future threat to developed countries’ prosperity. The burden of meeting that challenge rests
explicitly on our kids. If they don’t learn—now—to achieve a comfort level with foreign people, foreign languages, and foreign lands, this argument goes, their competitive position in the world will continue to erode, and their future livelihood and that of subsequentgenerations will be in jeopardy.
However, developed countries are failing to produce a generation of global citizens. For instance, only 37 percent of Americans hold a passport. Fewer than 2 percent of America’s 18 million college students go abroad during their undergraduate years—and when they do go, it’s mostly for short stints in England, Spain, or Italy that are more like vacations. Only a quarter of public primary schools offer any language instruction at all, and fewer high schools offer French, German, Latin, Japanese, or Russian than they did in 1997. The number of schools teaching Chinese and Arabic is so tiny as to be nearly invisible. Meanwhile, 200 million Chinese schoolchildren are studying English. South Korean parents recently demanded that their children begin English instruction in first grade, rather than in second. Nearly 700,000 students from all over the world attended U.S. universities during the 2009–10 school year, with the greatest increases in kids from China andSaudi Arabia.
The conviction is spreading that the solution for parents is to immerse their kids in the countries and cultures that are ascendant. Children will have a global perspective not only because of their language skills but also because arriving in a new place, knowingno one, will force them to be resilient. Moreover, it should become a prerequisite on college campuses and professional schools, especially in business and engineering. A real global education comes from a long stay in a strange place, it gives kids skills that no amount of study can teach.
Setting: meeting of the governing board of the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) (UNESCO).
Aim: deviseimmersion programs for highschoolstudents
Points to cover:
1.Lengthof programs
2.Destinations: Asian countries (especially China); Arabiccountries; Europe
3.Goal of foreign experience:
a)Tolearn aforeign language
b)Tostudythe life andculture ofacountrytogether withthe language
c)Togain specialexperience in acertain field
d)Towork as avolunteer
4.Accommodation (hostel; family scheme; renting aflat/room)
Futureprospects to ponder: requireinternationalstudies aspart of college curricula.
Present at themeeting:
Members of theboard;
Heads of colleges;
Student representatives
Someheads of internationalcompanies in need of young specialistswithglobalskill
Hometask: What adults can learn from kids
Ex. 26 
a) Surf the Internet to findout about these kids:
Anne Frank
Ruby Bridges
CharlieSimpson
b) When was thelast timeyouwere called childish?
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Lesson 3
Kid-Teachers
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Watching: What adults can learn from kids
Ex. 27 |
Are the sentences true or false ? Correct the false ones. |
1)Kidsare really hampered when it comesto thinking about reasonswhy not todo things.
2)In order tomake anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.
3)There are no restrictionson school Internet usein the USA.
4)Adora loved to write from the age of five.
5)When she wassix her mom boughther a laptopequipped with Microsoft Excel.
6)Action Publishing published her first book.
7)According to Adora, new generationsgrow andbecome worsethan the previousones.
Ex. 28 Fillin the gaps with appropriate word or word combination.
1.Every time we make…………………………… ……………………………, exhibit
…………………………………………………………, or …………………………… any other signsof being normal American citizens, we are called childish.
2.The …………………………… the word ‘childish’ addresses are seen so often in adultsthat we should…………………………… thisage-discriminatory word when it comesto criticizing behavior associated with …………………………… and ……………………………
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3.Learning between grown upsand kidsshould be……………………………
4.If doubt my older sister’sability to …………………………… the 10 %…………………………… I established on her last …………………………… , I’mgoing to ……………………………her ability to get more money from me.
5.Ashistory pointsout,regimesbecome……………………………when they are
…………………………… about keeping control.
6.Youmust …………………………… an ear today, because we are the leadersof
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7. The world’sproblemsshouldn’t be the human family’s…………………………… .
Ex. 29 Answer the following questions.
1)Why can knowledge of history and the past failuresof utopian idealssometimesbe a burden?
2)What helpspush the boundariesof possibility? How doesAdora prove it?
3) What can be worse than restrictions? Why?
4)How doesAdora showthat her parentswere really supportive?
5)What problem isthere with a rosy picture of kidsbeing much better than adults?
6)Why, according to Adora, aren’t we in the Dark Ages?
Ex. 30 Givea summary of the video.
Ex. 31 
Do you love challenges?
Comment on the statements:
certain types of irrational thinking aren’texactly what the world needs;
the world’s problems shouldn’t be the human family’s heirloom;
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Essay Writing
It is important tokeepyour sentences lean and avoid wordinesswhen writing an
essay.
Here are some notes towards efficiency and conciseness in writing.
1. Pruning the redundant:avoid saying the same thingstwice.
Many uneducated citizens[whohave never attended school] continue to vote for better
schools.
2. Reducing clauses tophrases,phrases tosingle words:be alert for clausesor phrases that can be pared to simpler, shorter constructions. The ‘which clause’ can be shortened to a simple adjective. (Be careful, however, not tolose some needed emphasisby over-pruning, the word ‘which’,which issometimesnecessary [as it isin thissentence], isnot evil.)
Smith College, whichwasfounded in 1871, isthe premier all-women’scollege in the
United States.
Founded in 1871, Smith College is the premierall-women’s college in theUnited States.
Citizenswho knewwhet wasgoing on voted him outof office.
Knowledgeable citizens voted him outof office.
3. Intensifiers that don’t intensify:avoid using such wordsasreally, very, quite, extremely, severelywhen they are not necessary. It isprobably enoughto say that the salary increase is inadequate (not severely inadequate.) These wordsshouldn’t be banished from your vocabulary, but they will be used to best effect when used sparingly.
Ex. 32 Rewritethefollowing sentences to makethem concise.
1.At this point in timewecan’t ascertain thereason as towhy thescreen door was left open.
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2.My sister, who is employed as a nutritionist at the University of Michigan, recommends the daily intakeof megadoses of Vitamin C.
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3.Basically, in the light of the fact that Congressman Frenches was totally exhausted by his last campaign, there was an expectation on the part of the voters that he would not reduplicate his effort toachieve officein government again.
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4.It is to be hoped that we discover a means to create an absolutely proper and fitting tribute to Professor Espinoza.
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5.I would call your attention to the fact that our president, who was formerly the Governor of Arkansas,is basically aSoutherner.
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6.The nursery school teacher education training sessions involve active interfacing with preschool children of theappropriateageas well as intensivepeer interaction in theform of roleplaying.
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7.There aremillions of fans whodesperately want theHartford Whalers tostay in thecity.
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8.There is a desire on the part of many of us to maintain a spring recess for the purpose of getting away from thedemands of our studies.
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9.Hewas really latefor his Englishclass duetothefact that hehad tofinishhis mathtest.
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10.One time when I went to the park, my friend, whose name is Jake, went with me and we had fun duetothefact that it was aniceday out.
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