- •Ukraine
- •2. Explain the meanings of the following word combinations and use them to speak about Ukrainians:
- •3.Translate into Ukrainian and be ready to use these word combinations in your own sentences:
- •4. Fill in the blanks with the words from the list.
- •6. Look through the text again and find examples of simple verbal, compound nominal and modal verbal predicates. Present the examples to the class and give your explanation.
- •7. Decide upon the type of the predicates in the following sentences. Translate them into Ukrainian.
- •Things you should be aware of to understand Ukrainian culture.
- •9. Explain the meaning of the following words and word combinations in English and use them in your own sentences:
- •10. Find in the text the words or word combinations which have the meanings similar to these ones in the exercise, translate them into Ukrainian.
- •14. Define the type of the simple sentences. Decide whether they are two-member or one-member sentences.
- •17. In what situations would you say the following? Match these idiomatic phrases with the Ukrainian equivalents.
- •6. Match the words with their definitions to use this vocabulary in your speech.
- •11. Translate into English:
- •13. Think of a match on the left (based on the text) to appropriate definition on the right:
- •14. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words. Change the form of the word if it is necessary.
- •16. Spelling checker. Complete the words with the missing letters:
- •22. Work in pairs. Using the material of the text “The Constitution of Ukraine” choose examples of complex sentences, analyze them.
- •3. Explain the meanings of the following words and word combinations in English and use them in the situations of your own:
- •4. English spelling is notoriously unphonetic. Some of the words can cause pronunciation difficulties. Transcribe the words with a silent letter and read them in pairs. Memorize the pronunciation.
- •9. Define the type of the predicates and translate the sentences into English.
- •3. Explain the meanings of the following words and word combinations and use them to speak about Ukraine:
- •11. Choose the right conjunctions or conjunctive adverbs from the box to finish the sentences. Explain what meaning they possess. Use them to make your own sentences speaking on Ukraine.
- •The tasks of ukraine on the way to the global
- •Integration
- •3. Explain the meanings of the following words and word combinations in English working in pairs. Use them in your own sentences:
- •4. Give English equivalent meaningful words and word combinations to the following Ukrainian ones. Work in pairs and decide upon the context in which they were used. Give examples:
- •7. Find the appropriate match for the words on the right to make phrases:
- •9. Spelling checker. Complete the words with the missing letters:
- •11. Explain the contextual meaning of the words in bold and translate the following sentences into Ukrainian.
- •14. Revise the subjunctive mood structures and define the type of the subordinate clauses in the sentences:
- •15. Use the following modal verbs to finish the sentences in their appropriate forms:
- •Self-study Box
- •5. Define the types of the subordinate clauses.
22. Work in pairs. Using the material of the text “The Constitution of Ukraine” choose examples of complex sentences, analyze them.
23. Translate into English.
Україна – незалежна країна на північному сході Європи. Це країна з давньою історією й багатющою культурою, країна чудової природи й щирих, гостинних людей.
Історія України славна і трагічна. Протягом століть український народ відстоював свою свободу й незалежність. 24 серпня 1991 року Верховна рада України проголосила утворення незалежної української держави, а в грудні 1991 року національний референдум підтвердив прагнення українського народу до незалежності. Тепер ми розвинута нація з власною мовою, традиціями, культурою й способом життя.
Український парламент називається Верховною Радою. Він складається з 450 депутатів, обраних на чотирьохрічний термін. Голова парламенту обирається членами парламенту. Верховна Рада – найвищий орган законодавчої влади. Тут приймають закони, за якими живе наша країна.
Найвищий виконавчий орган державної влади – це Кабінет Міністрів України, відповідальний за втілення в життя законів, прийнятих парламентом.
Судова влада здійснюється системою судів, найголовніший з яких – Верховний суд.
Президент – голова нашої країни. Президент обирaється на п’ятирічний термін громадянами нашої країни на загальних виборах.
Український народ ніколи не поневолював інші народи й мужньо захищав свою країну. Україна – мирна держава, яка хоче жити в мирі й співробітництві з усіма країнами світу.
24. Role-play the following communicative situations:
You graduate from the university. You discuss with your friends the rights, duties, obligations which are written down in the Constitution.
You participate in a round-table discussion of the seminar: “Do you think the Constitution reflects all the sides of our life or you think that some more points can be added?” Present your view points using such expressions : in my opinion…, to my mind…/to my way of thinking…, it is my conviction/belief that…, I am inclined to believe that…, the way I see it/as I see it…, it strikes me that…, as far as I’m concerned…, personally, I think… etc.
You are a politician, you must prepare a political speech for your electorate about the rights and duties of the citizens of Ukraine. Use the publicistic style with its prosodic features to present a political speech. Name the characteristic features of the publicistic style.
NATIONAL SYMBOLS OF UKRAINE
1. Work in pairs. Speak on the following issues:
What National Symbols of Ukraine do you know?
Do you know anything about their history?
Do countries need national symbols? What do you think they emblazon?
What do people generally choose for national emblems of their countries?
2. Read the text about the National Symbols of Ukraine, be ready to respond doing practical tasks and answering the questions below the text.
The State Flag of Ukraine
Various types of flags were used in various periods of Ukrainian history. The earliest mention of the modern national colours of Ukraine dates back to the period of Hetman State and is found in the Lviv Chronicle of the 17th century. The coat of arms of the city of Lviv was in yellow and blue colours. Yellow and blue also appeared in the coat of arms of the “Ruthenian Province” which was part of Poland in the 14th and 15th centuries. The description of some military flags from the times of the Hetman State includes azure as the colour of the flag cloth bearing different embroidered emblems and mottoes.
The heraldic conception of national colours that had been passed down from ancient times has been lost. Instead, blue was justified as being the colour of the sky and yellow as the colour of the wheat fields.
When Ukraine declared its independence in 1991, it adopted a new National Flag on January 28, 1992 – a horizontally 2-striped flag. The upper blue stripe signifies the open sky and the bottom yellow stripe symbolizes the wheat fields of Ukraine.
The State Emblem of Ukraine
The national emblem – the coat of arms, the flag, and the seal – alternated during the millennium of Ukrainian history owing to various political, social, cultural, and other factors – a phenomenon common to many European nations.
The contemporary national coat of arms of Ukraine, Azure or trident, is the most ancient as well as most dignified of all the Ukrainian insignia of nationwide significance. Its emblazonment represents a synthesis of a pre-heraldic device of the ruling dynasty in the tenth century and of the oldest Ukrainian national heraldic tinctures from the 13th century.
The problem associated with the origin and the original meaning of the Ukrainian trident has still not been solved by scholars. The archaeological finds of tridents in Ukraine go back to the 1st century AD. Undoubtedly this emblem was a mark of authority and a mystic symbol of one or several of the ethnic groups which inhabited ancient Ukrainian territory and which came to compose the Ukrainian Nation.
The trident, left to Volodymyr the Great by his ancestors became a hereditary pre-heraldic badge of all his descendants, rulers of medieval Ukraine and the grand Princes of Kyiv and the Princes of all other constituent principalities of the vast Kyivan Realm. Tridents and bidents are found on many objects of that period: coins, stones, and bricks of significant buildings (i.e. palaces, castles, cathedrals), armor, signets, seals, official jewelry, ceramics and manuscripts.
After the renaissance of independent Ukraine on January 22, 1918 the trident was adopted by a law of March 22, 1918 as the national device of the Ukrainian Republic. It was adopted in the form of a Great and a Small coat of Arms representing the classic trident of Volodymyr the Great in an ornamental wreath. The trident was emblazoned in official use (e.g. in uniforms of armed forces, and service flags).
The State Anthem of Ukraine
The Ukrainian State Anthem, “Shche ne vmerla Ukraina” (“Ukraine has not yet perished” or “Ukraine lives on”) is of quite recent origin. Mykhailo Verbytskyi, composer of many Ukrainian songs, realized the need for an anthem at the first Ukrainian concert in Peremyshl, in western Ukraine, to honor the poet T. Shevchenko.
The popularity of the song rapidly spread throughout the country. In 1864 it was sung at the conclusion of a program in Permyshyl honoring T. Shevchenko. In 1917 it became the rallying song of the Ukrainian revolution and was officially adopted as the state anthem of the Ukrainian Republic.
According to Article 20 of the Constitution of Ukraine, adopted on June 28, 1996, the State Anthem of Ukraine is the national anthem with the music of M. Verbytskyi and words confirmed by law and approved by a constitutional majority of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
What do you know about the first mention of the national colours of the State Flag?
Was it possible to preserve the heraldic conception of national colours up to the present days?
What did the colours start to justify?
When was the National Flag adopted? What is presented on its field?
What do we call the State Emblem of Ukraine?
What is known about the origin of the Ukrainian trident?
When was the trident adopted as the national device? How did it look? Where was it used?
Who wrote the poem “Shche ne vmerla Ukraina”? Why was this poem chosen as the State Anthem of Ukraine?