Section 3. Memory Exercise Ex.1.Tongue Twisters (для отработки дикции).

В неконституционном Константинополе, где хохлатые хохотушки хохотом хохотали и кричали турке, который начерно обкурен трубкой: не кури, турка, трубку, купи лучше кипу пик, лучше пик кипу купи, а то придет бомбардир из Бранденбурга – бомбами забомбардирут за то, что некто чернорылый у него полдвора рылом изрыл, вырыл и подрыл; но на самом деле турка не был в деле, да и Клара-краля в то время кралась к ларю, пока Карл у Клары крал кораллы, за что Клара у Карла украла кларнет, а потом на дворе деготниковой вдовы Варвары два этих вора дрова воровали; о Кларе с Карлом во мраке все раки шумели в драке, – вот и не до бомбардира ворам было, но и не до деготниковой вдовы, и не до деготниковых детей; зато рассердившаяся вдова убрала в сарай дрова: раз дрова, два дрова, три дрова – не вместились все дрова, и два дровосека, два дровокола-дроворуба для расчувствовавшейся Варвары выдворили дрова вширь двора обратно на дровяной двор…..

Ex.2. Work in pairs. Read a sentence and repeat it by memory. Do so for 5 sentences. Keep tempo.

Quotes.

1. Diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.  (Caskie Stinett)

2. If God had been a Liberal there wouldn't have been Ten Commandments, there would have been Ten Suggestions.  (Malcolm Bradbury)

3. Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.(Henry Queuille)

4. I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. (Napoleon Bonaparte)

5. Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.(Isaac Goldberg)

6. Today, war is being produced as a made-for-TV event; war is turned into a video game for the army of couch potatoes.(Unknown)

7. Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. (Mao Tse-Tung)

8. Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. (Mark Twain)

9. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. (Nikita Khrushchev)

10. A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)

11. George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles.  (Author Unknown)

12. If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. (Louis D. Brandeis)

13. In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. (Charles de Gaulle)

14. English policy is to float lazily downstream, occasionally putting out a diplomatic boathook to avoid collisions. (Salisbury)

15. If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.(Nelson Mandela)

16. It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.(Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.)

17. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.  (Robert Frost)

18. The war we are fighting today against terrorism is a multifaceted fight. We have to use every tool in our toolkit to wage this war - diplomacy, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, and of course, military power - and we are developing new tools as we go along. (Richard Armitage)

19. Our dependence on foreign energy sources is our Achilles heel, not just in the realm of diplomacy, but in terms of our future as the world's economic leader. (Judy Biggert)

20. When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat.  (Author Unknown)

Ex.3. Work in pairs. Train these phrases using "snowball” technique.

1.We have the story of a new world that became a friend and liberator of the old, a story of a slave-holding society that became a servant of freedom, the story of a power that went into the world to protect but not possess, to defend but not to conquer. (George W. Bush, 2001)

2. I believe that we can give our middle class relief and provide working families with a road to opportunity, I believe that we have a righteous wind at our backs and that as we stand on the crossroads of history, we can make the right choices, and meet the challenges that face us. (Barack Obama, 2004)

3. Comrades, the 20tb Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has manifested with a new strength the unshakable unity- of our party, its cohesiveness around the central committee, its resolute will to accomplish the great task of building communism. [Tumultuous applause.] (Nikita S. Khrushchev, 1956),

4. Tonight, we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom. Our grief has turned to anger and anger to resolution. Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring  justice to our enemies, justice will be done. (George W. Bush, 2001)

5. We have no quarrel with the German people, except that they allow themselves to be governed by a Nazi Government. As long as that Government exists and pursues the methods it has so persistently followed during the last two years, there will be no peace in Europe. (Neville Chamberlain - September 1, 1939)

6. The vast majority of the Germans living today bear no guilt for the Holocaust. But they do bear a special responsibility. Remembrance of the war and the genocide perpetrated by the Nazi regime has become part of our living constitution. (Gerhard Schröder - January 25, 2005)

7. The government calls upon you, citizens of the Soviet Union, to rally still more closely around our glorious Bolshevist party, around our Soviet Government, around our great leader and comrade, Stalin. Ours is a righteous cause. The enemy shall be defeated. Victory will be ours. (Vyacheslav Molotov - June 22, 1941)

8. I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined the government: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."….You ask, what is our policy? I will say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark and lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. (Winston Churchill - May 13, 1940)

9. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too; and think foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realms: to which, rather than any dishonor should grow by me, I myself will take up arms; I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field. (Queen Elizabeth I – 1588)

10. I have found it impossible to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love. I now quit altogether public affairs and I lay down my burden. It may be some time before I return to my native land, but I shall always follow the fortunes of the British race and empire with profound interest, and if at any time in the future I can be found of service to his majesty in a private station, I shall not fail. (Edward VIII - December 11, 1936)