- •Education Unit 1. Learning for Life Key Vocabulary List
- •Education in Great Britain
- •Education beyond Sixteen
- •Alternative Teaching?
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Ex. 3. Study the following definitions and give the corresponding educational terms.
- •Ex. 4. Supply the best words in Parts a and b.
- •Education in Australia
- •Unit 2. Co-education Key Vocabulary List
- •Choose the School – not the Sex
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Harassment formative years flawed detriment tend fierce reinforce underachievement inequality implicit enhance
- •Students
- •Get the Girls to School
- •Key Vocabulary List
- •Public Exams in Great Britain
- •Should Examinations Be Replaced with Other Forms of Assessment?
- •How to Pass the Exams
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Addictive disorders Unit 1. Smoking, New Attitude Key Vocabulary List
- •Addictive Disorders
- •Tobacco – The Emerging Crisis in the Developing World
- •Smoking Role Models Girls must look at themselves for a cure
- •Cracking Down on Young Smokers
- •Burned-up Bosses Snuff out Prospects of Jobs for Smokers
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Unit 2. War on Drugs Key Vocabulary List
- •A War We Have to Win
- •We Need Better Ways to Deal with Drug Problems
- •How the Drug Problem Affects the Workplace
- •Dare to Say No (Drug Abuse Resistance Education)
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Mass media Unit 1. Newspapers Key Vocabulary List
- •The Daily Staff
- •Press Council’s 16-point Code of Practice
- •Newspaper Headlines
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Janet Wins Battle of the Bras
- •Woman Wins Appeal over Struggle with Police Officer
- •Unit 2. Radio and Television Key Vocabulary List
- •Radio and Television in Britain
- •The Rating Battle
- •Soap Operas
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Writing
- •Unit 3. Tv or not tv Key Vocabulary List
- •Television: Advantages and Disadvantages
- •Watching with Mother
- •Tv “Damages Children’s English”
- •Children Watch Too Much Television
- •Tv Violence
- •Books, Plays and Films Should Be Censored
- •Going for the Big Break / Shouting at the Box
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •The arguments for censorship
- •The counter-arguments
- •Writing
- •Unit 4. The World of Advertising Key Vocabulary List
- •Advertisers Perform a Useful Service to the Community
- •Why is Television Advertising Capable of Manipulating People?
- •Children and Advertising
- •The Language of Advertising
- •1. Skim quickly through these advertisements. What do they have in common? What techniques do they use to attract the reader’s attention?
- •Skinny legs
- •Ashamed of prune lips?
- •Wrinkle Stick
- •2. With a partner choose two of the advertisements to read more closely. Answer these questions on style.
- •4. Work individually. For each statement, put a tick in the column which most accurately reflects your opinion.
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Discussion
- •Here are some arguments for and against advertising
- •Writing
- •List of the books cited
Unit 2. War on Drugs Key Vocabulary List
drugs, soft drugs, hard drugs
illicit, illegal drugs, illicit drug trade
drug trafficking, drug trafficker, drug peddler
to abuse drugs, drug abuse, substance abuse, drug abusers, growth in drug abuse
a person with a drug abuse problem, drug misuse, drug withdrawal symptoms
to be drug related, to be linked/ attributed to drugs
to outlaw drugs
to denounce drugs, to be socially unacceptable
to legalise/ decriminalize drugs
to advocate the legalisation of drugs
to rule out the legalisation of drugs
to lose the war against drugs
to jeopardise, ~ one’s position
access, accessible, inaccessible
to have access to smth, to be accessible, to be easily obtainable
to offend, offender, first-time offender, offence, criminal offence
to sell drugs through government-controlled outlets
to affect job/work performance
decreased productivity
to experience on-the-job injuries
to have a high rate of absenteeism/ disciplinary problems
to administer a drug test
to test positive
the cost of substance abuse to the workplace
expenses and losses related to substance abuse
to estimate, estimation, estimable, inestimable
to have control over a problem
to be subject to stresses
to develop coping and decision-making skills
to resist peer pressure
to make decisions under pressure from peers
to reduce the demand for drugs
to cope with life problems in positive ways
to provide positive alternatives to substance abuse
Text A
A War We Have to Win
The debate about legalising drugs has been with us ever since the hip old days of the 1960s. Then the call for liberalisation was largely confined to small, fashionable groups from the world of pop music and the media. Attitudes have since shifted. Last week no less a figure than the secretary general of Interpol, an organization dedicated to defeating international crime, advocated the legalisation not just of cannabis but of all drugs, including heroin.
That the debate should have reached this state is a result of the staggering growth in drug abuse and related crime. The police claim they are losing the war against drugs.
The evidence that drug abuse is growing in Britain is equally disturbing. Millions of young people regularly use cannabis and Ecstasy. A growing number are using crack and heroin. That in turn is fuelling crime, some of it violent. As many as two-thirds of thefts are linked to drugs. In the northwest, no fewer than 95% of a sample of young people convicted of criminal offences admitted to using drugs. A heroin addict needs to steal £ 90,000 of goods a year to feed the habit, and there are a quarter of a million such people. The illicit drug trade in Europe is worth an estimated £ 260 billion a year, the equivalent of the government’s annual spending.
A whole society is under threat and the young are being dragged into a cycle of abuse and despair that will further expand the ranks of the underclass. Apart from the material costs and the shattered lives, this places an intolerable burden on our prisons and court system. All right-thinking people agree that if the plague is not defeated we shall all suffer.
This is where opinion divides. Politicians in Britain and the United States have ruled out legalisation. They find it easier to denounce drug use and hope, that the crisis can be contained.
The pro-legalisation lobby argues that it is humbug to continue to ban cannabis while we smoke cigarettes and drink gin and tonics. They say we should accept the reality that most drug users are not dealt with by the law and that cannabis is no more harmful than tobacco. Yet even if we were to legalise soft drugs, who can categorically say that users would not move on the harder drugs? Nor would legalising marijuana defeat crime; the serious money is in heroin and cocaine.
If we know that drugs are dangerous, why should they be legalised? Common sense tells us that if drugs are readily and legitimately available, more people will use them. Just because many are addicted to nicotine or alcohol does not make it right to legalise other addictive drugs. The consequences of smoking and the violence associated with alcohol abuse have caused immense suffering. So why make it easier for yet more people to suffer? Though legalization of all drugs would reduce the profits of the drug dealers, and hence crime, the wider consequences would be intolerable.
Drug legalisation is a quick fix that will fuel long-term problems. If millions become addicted in a period when drugs are illegal, socially unacceptable, and generally difficult to get, then millions more will surely become addicts when drugs are legally and socially acceptable and easily obtainable. We should always be suspicious of simple solutions to complex problems. There has to be another policy to defeat drugs. What is required is resolution and planning.
The attack should be on the users and distributors of hard drugs, not on the consumers of cannabis. We should also identify unregistered drug addicts as they come into contact with the police and offer them a rehabilitation programme. We need to develop ways of treating them, wearing them off opiates so they do not turn to crime.
Finally plans must be drawn up for a drugs education programme in schools. The traditional scare tactics have failed. Young people must be told the truth if they are to act on the message. The war against drugs will be a protracted and unsavoury struggle, but it is a war and one which we must win.
Text B