Post-listening Activity

Task 1. Express your opinion on the reasons of discrimination over ethnic minorities in different countries.

Task 2. Work in groups of 3 or 4 and discuss possible ways of solving the problems of ethnic discrimination.

_{T A P E S C R I P T 3}

America as seen by britons

_{Pre-listening Activity}

1. _{What do people pay attention to when they arrive in a foreign country?}

2. _{When you visit some new place do you observe positive or negative features first of all?}

Listening Activity

_{Task 1. Listen to the tape “America as seen by Britons” and tick the right sentences.}

1. _{They moved to the USA two years ago.}

2. _{Despite of some drawbacks they enjoyed their staying in New York.}

3. _{Sheila appreciates the possibility of doing shopping late in the evening.}

4. _{New York subway impressed them very much.}

5. _{All nationalities living in New York settle in a certain area.}

6. _{It’s more difficult to make friends in the USA because the Americans are too imposing.}

_{Task 2. Listen to the tape for the second time. Make a list of positive and negative sides of the life in New York for Sheila and Bob.}

Post- listening Activity

_{Answer the following questions.}

1. _{Why do both Sheila and Bob think that the life is easier in America than in England?}

2. _{Why was it much easier for Sheila and Bob to make friends in New York?}

_{T A P E S C R I P T 4}

England as seen by americans

_{Pre-listening Activity}

1. _{Where do you think the difference between closely related nations may lie first of all?}

2. _{In what spheres of life do the Americans and the English differ most of all to your mind?}

Listening Activity

_{Task 1. Listen to the tape “England as seen by Americans” and tick the right variants.}

_A.

_{General attitude of Terry Tormsha to living in England is:}

1. _positive;

2. _negative.

_B.

_{According to Terry Tomsha the differences between two countries are in:}

1. _{the geographical position;}

2. _{the people;}

3. _{the historical background;}

4. _{the language;}

5. _{the standards of living;}

6. _{the attitude towards work;}

7. _{the weather.}

_{Task 2. Listen to the tape for the second time. Find the facts to prove the following.}

1. _{It’s easier to start a conversation in the street in America.}

2. _{Life is a lot easier in America.}

3. _{Job goes first for Americans.}

Post-listening Activity

_{Answer the following questions.}

1. _{Why is it sometimes difficult for the Americans to get quick reaction from the English?}

2. _{What do you think about the preferences between private life and work for the Americans and the English?}

3. _{What is your personal attitude to the priorities of work and private life?}

Speech practice

Task 1. Read the quotation opening this unit “Our own society is the only one, which we can transform and yet not destroy, since the changes, which we should introduce, would come from within”(Claude Levi-Strauss). Discuss it and see whether you properly understand the meaning of it.

Task 2. Comment on the following

1. “Our own society is the only one, which we can transform and yet not destroy, since the changes, which we should introduce, would come from within.”

2. “There is no sorrow above the loss of a native land.” (Euripides, 485-406 B.C.) Do you support this statement?

Task 3. Give sound arguments to your opponent on the following theme

“Few of us like to be told that we are average. Generalization about nationalities is usually not welcomed, even when basically accurate.”

_{Task 4. Role play the international conference “National Stereotypes and Economical Progress”.}

_{You need:}

• _{a spokesman;}

• _{representatives of a scientific laboratory of a research institute presenting the results of their 5 year investigations of the problem of the influence of some typical national traits of character on the speed and efficiency of economical development;}

• _{journalists presenting different types of mass media;}

• representatives of the executive branch responsible for the economic development of the Republic.