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5c

Watch the program in full and schematize it using the flowchart below. Remember that the flowchart may be extended so that to fit this particular programme.

Interviewing

Host _______________________________ Guest____________________________________________

Presentation ( summarise)

Host’s turn(Q1)

Guest’s answer(A1)

Q2

A2

Q3

A3 ( you may continue when necessary)

Host’s conclusion

Home Task 3:

1)fill in the flowchart from 5c at home

2)prepare to participate in a TV program devoted to the consequences of an economic crisis.

GETTING READY FOR PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION

Processing Discourse Features

6a

Analyse the interview -specific means of steering the discourse.

Highlight those you observe in the interview. Focus on topic changes and put a tick in the appropriate box.

TOPIC CHANGES

reformulations

discourse planning

stressing

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hedging

backchanneling

6b

Do they press emotionality a) towards the issue, b) towards the partner? If yes, what is their tone?

What response do they suggest? What response do they actually produce? Why?

What situations do you find these phrases and intonation acceptable/unacceptable in?

6c

Fill the gaps with the means of proper turn-taking and steering the discourse taken from the first 10-minutes of main body of the discussion.

1)_______________________________________________________ second-guess what you’ve just said to me… Lehman did have adequate financeable collateral.You

_________________________________________ realistically, responsibly. You chose not to.For political reasons.

2)______________________________________________. Lehman was deeply in the red.

3)________________________________________________________Dick Fuld said(…). You were hammered for it, then politically decided you could never do it again.

_________________________________________________________?

4)________________________________________________________________, then why did we save AIG the next day, which was a political disaster…

5)So, moral hazard then becomes a meaningless concept. You abided by the principle of moral hazard______________________________________________________.

6)No, what we understood –

7)______________________________________________________________________________________

___– was that allowing major financial institutions to collapse (…) was not a wise thing to do.

8)You say, _________________________________________________of moral hazard, but actually in the case of AIG you ____________________________________didn’t, because you personally made it plain in your recent book that the management was incompetent…and you still threw money in their direction…

9)Because we understood – not because we wanted to save AIG per se, (…) but rather______________________________________________________________, that the collapse of the world’s largest insurance company would have been catastrophic.

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6 d

Express positive and negative attitude to the thought given below, using the means of expressing attitude towards facts and events and conversational phrases you wrote above.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. – Mark Twain

Professional Communication

TV PROGRAM

Work in groups:

Group A: ordinary citizens, e.g. workers of state industries, who have to pay on loans (2 people).

Group B: businessmen (3-5 people, different spheres, small and big business) Group C: bankers (top managers of the Central Bank - mandatory, stateowned and private-owned banks – optional).

Group D: perts.

Group E: state officials.

Chairman.

Students may introduce other roles, if they wish.

You are going to take part in a TV program, which takes place during an economic crisis and involves people who are affected by the crisis and those who are responsible for its resolution.

The main goal of the program is to show the influence of the crisis on the general population, business and banks, to give people an opportunity to hear pert opinion about the prospects of recovery and ask questions to the officials directly responsible.

Meet as a group and discuss the details of the crisis: its symptoms, origins and course.

Each participant is to prepare a talk about their own difficulties in the crisis and a list of questions to ask the perts.

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Each pert is to prepare to speak about the origins of the crisis, make a forecast and suggest ways of management.

Please, save the links you used for your additional reading into a hot-list and submit to your teacher when required.

One student chairs the conference: their task is to decide on the order of the questions in the discussion and the way to allow each participant present their opinion.

Each participant has to use topical vocabulary in their speech (from 3- 5 units).

Нome Task 4

Learn words and phrases given in the Unit 7. Use the words and expressions from Glossary Unit 7.

Unit 8. BBC HARDtalk Interview with Danny Dorling, a geographer, the author of the book “Inequality and The 1%”

Home Task 1:

1) Prepare to speak in class on one of the topics below. Be brief and substantive. Your talk should be more than a 1 minute long:

1)Is inequality an unavoidable fact of life?

2)Do you agree that elitism, exclusion, prejudice, greed and despair support the relentless rise of social and economic inequality? Why?

3)Who are the richest people in the world?

4)Are more people dying because the rich are getting richer at the expense of the rest?

5)Can society prosper?

6)What is the current state of the UK economy?

7)Between 2010 and 2015 there has been a devastating increase in poverty, hunger and destitution in the UK. Why?

8)What caused the financial crisis and recession in the world?

2)Watch the video: BBC HARDtalk Danny Dorling - a geographer

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Lead -In

1. Have you ever heard of Danny Dorling?

Danny Dorling (born 1968) is a British social geographer and a Professor of Geography of the University of Oxford

2. Have you read his book “Inequality and The 1%”? What is it about? (http://www.dannydorling.org/books/onepercent/)

WORK IN PROGRESS

1a

Watch the presentation to the program and answer the following questions

1)How does Zeinab Badawi introduce the guest?

2)What revolution does Danny Dorling propose?

3)What does Zeinab Badawi tell about the 1 % of the world’s population?

1b

Answer the questions on the main body of the program

1)How does Danny Dorling define the superrich?

2)Why is it better to pay less to the rich?

3)Are there people who deserve the remuneration they get?

4)How does Danny Dorling describe the economic situation in Spain, Norway and the UK?

5)Is Danny Dorling against capitalism?

Home Task 2

1)fill in the flowchart from 5c.

2)prepare to participate in the event from PROFESSIONAL COMMUNICATION task.

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GAINING THE LANGUAGE

2a

Watch again and make a list of topical vocabulary phrases. Then put the phrases under the following headings in your exercise book.

Group A

Noun + Noun

Verb + Noun /Noun+Verb

Group B

Adjective/Participle + Noun

Adverb + Adjective

Group C

Adverb + Verb

Other mixed

2b

Use the words combinations within the context of the program.

Language Practice 1.

3a

Match parts to build combinations from the text.

3b

Fill in the gaps with words or phrases from the box.

1.People like to use the word nigh when they talk about the apocalypse: "Repent! _____________________."

2.The _____________________ (83 percent) of Americans no longer rely on over-the-air TV signals.

3.In truth, even a _____________________ of "1%" of of Muslims who approve of terrorists worldwide translates to 15 million believers, which is hardly an insignificant number.

4.The teens still have the knowledge that _____________________ (such as going to school, getting a college education, getting a good job, etc.) are good, yet they lack the means to reach these goals due to conflicting ideas on how to get there.

5.During construction, there is _____________________ 90% material diversion of waste to landfill.

6.An _____________________ is one in which the people involved are not all treated equally or do not all have the same opportunities and advantages.

7.If the articles are being purchased as part of a critical discourse, then perhaps this _____________________.

3 c

Paraphrase using words and phrases from the box below. Change the form so that it could fit the meaning of the sentences.

1)Executive compensation in the U.S. is usually discussed in moral terms. It’s not fair that chief executive officers are provided with enormous salaries up to $156 million a year, the argument goes. And those outsized pay packages are financed by lots and lots shareholders, who

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suffer a loss in earnings!

2)Common people own barely 1% of global wealth. While, according to Oxfam International report to The World Economic Forum, a minuscule of the richest, which amounts to 1% ,of 1% owns 48 percent of the global wealth.

3)On the one hand, South Africa’s strong economic performance of the past few years created the grounds for the growth of positive mood. At the same time, it has not yet succeeded in reducing the number of South Africans who regularly are penniless.

4)A report by St Vincent de Paul calling on the Federal Government to do more to solve the problem of the poor has highlighted the day-to-day struggles faced by many Australians whose shopping is limited by their wages.

5)Hon Uche Ekwunife, Chairman, House Committee on Environment on Wednesday said Nigerian workers merited a better compensationthan they currently receive considering the rising cost of living. The fact that these workers do a lot to improve the life of people on a regular basis makes this statement quite reasonable.

Language Practice 2

4a

Watch again and make a list of the means of expressing attitude towards what is being said . Tick the ones you have come across in the interview as many times as they appear:

combinations with modal verbs

adverbs expressing attitude towards facts and events

impersonal constructions

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emotionally coloured vocabulary

metaphors expressing opinion

euphemisms

4b

Provide examples Watch the episode from the interview and fill the corresponding column in the chart below

Group A. Scan for the means of expressing attitude used by the host Group B. Scan for the means of expressing attitude used by the guest

4c

Look through your lists of means expressing attitude and analyse them:

What attitude to the issue do they express?

What attitude to the partner’s words do they express?

What are they probably meant to conceal or emphasise?

4d

Paraphrase these statements using grammar and vocabulary means from the program to show your attitude towards facts, opinions or events.

a.The global superrich are the 1 % of people in the rich countries earning at least $ 200 000. Among them there is enormous inequality. (Danny Dorling)

b.Are they all undeserving? Because some of them are superrich? They've made great contributions to society through their innovations, through technology. The least Steve Jobs, for instance, incredibly rich (Zeinab Badawi)

c.We've got a crazy situation in the UK where a third of our taxes is being paid by just 1 % of people. (Danny Dorling)

d.Pay is being high for too long, particularly in the banks, particularly in investment banks. That must be corrected. (Zeinab Badawi)

e.To make a long story short, what evidence do you have that 1% are impoverishing the rest. (Zeinab Badawi)

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Language Practice 3

5a

Focus on the interviewer’s turns. Choose some to analyse. Consider the following:

1)how many sentences are there in it?

2)are they questions or side notes?

3)what phrases are used by the host to exercise smooth transition from one discussed issue to another?

4)what is the question itself?

5b

Now focus on the guest’s answer. Choose some and practice in summarizing them giving the main idea of the guest’s turn.

For example:

Zeinab Badawi:

How do you define the global superrich?

Danny Dorling:

The global superrich are probably the 1 % of people in the rich countries of the world you have the most. You are talking about people earning a year at least $ 200 000. But, of course, within that group there is huge inequality. The top 1 % of people in the world have more inequality among them than the other 99 % of us.

Danny Dorling: The global superrich are the 1 % of people in the rich countries earning at least $ 200 000. Among them there is more inequality than among the other 99 % of us.

5c

Watch the programme in full and schematize it using the flowchart below. Remember that the flowchart may be extended so that to fit this particular programme.

Interviewing

Host _______________________________ Guest____________________________________________

Presentation ( summarise)

Host’s turn(Q1)

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