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Vocabulary development

Task 1. Study the following words, add missing words of the same family.

Word-Form Chart

Noun

Verb

Adjective

freedom

free

to restrict

choosy

adoption

to justify

to inform

meaning

interfering

restrained; restraining

Task 2.

  1. Give synonyms to the following words.

teenager to reduce

weird to comply with

offence to participate

illness lack of smth.

  1. Give antonyms to the following words.

similar to suffer

safe hopefulness

to be allowed rights

voluntary decent

Task 3. Match the words with their definitions.

1. insight a) the act of limiting something and reducing it;

2. caring b) a sudden but clear understanding of a complicated problem or situation;

3. neglect c) general rule, instruction or advice;

4. restriction d) not giving or not receiving enough care or attention;

5. alleviate e) king and giving emotional support to others;

6. liberty f) make something less severe;

7. submit g) without reservation;

8. completely h) the right to do as one chooses;

9. guideline i) present something for consideration.

Task 4. Finish the statements using the verbs from the box below:

  1. Rights can (should) be … 3. Rights shouldn’t be …

  2. Restraints can be… 4. Restraints shouldn’t…

to abuse, to enforce, to exercise, to infringe on, to impinge on, to compose,

to distribute equally, to respect, to interfere with, to violate, to provide,

to impose, to recognize, to protect, to place, to promote

Task 5. Fill in the blanks, choosing the appropriate word from the following list.

No longer, the right, prosecuted, repeatedly, law, unlike, terminally, court, defend, guidelines.

In the Netherlands, the (1) … allows doctor to help (2) … ill patients to die if they state. (3)… that this is their wish. The doctor must follow very strict (4)…, and must be prepared to (5) … the decision (6)… in However (7) in most other countries, he cannot be (8) … if he has followed the guidelines correctly. Elsewhere in the world “Voluntary Euthanasia’ groups continue to campaign for (9) … to decide if you (10) … wish to live.

Task 6. Translate from Russian into English.

1. В большинстве стран мира служба в армии все еще является обязательной для молодых людей. Но срок службы в разных странах разный. В таких странах как Польша, Италия, Германия это год или полтора. В Израиле в армии должны служить как мужчины, так и женщины.

2. Степень свободы зависти в основном от типа общества. Фактически существуют две крайности: с одной стороны – тоталитарное общество, где очень мало или нет вообще свободы личности, и с другой – демократическое общество, где уважаются все основные свободы.