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Critical Thinking . Speak Up. Follow-Up. Conduct mini-research using texts from the Reader, Listening 2, or any other resources, and make a three-minute statement (see the Manual) on
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Critical Thinking
1. Do you find Linda Colley’s analysis of the UK’s past and present logical and convincing?
2. If, in your opinion, the essay is persuasive, how does the author achieve this?
Speak Up
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. Do you think the threat of UK’s disintegration is real? Explain your position.
2. In your opinion, are any of the reforms mentioned in the essay likely to be implemented?
Follow-Up
Conduct mini-research using texts from the Reader, Listening 2, or any other resources, and make a three-minute statement (see the Manual) on
· the likelihood of the disintegration of the UK
· the North-South divide in England
· the need for an English parliament
· any controversial aspect of British democracy.
Make sure your statement contains a claim and relevant arguments supported by evidence. Use the words and phrases from Vocabulary Practice 1.
Listening 2
Scottish independence: could Britain break up? | The Economist (3: 15-8: 30) https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=kBHZiXUDV6A
Notes
1. The Scottish National Party (the SNP) is now the largest regionalist and social-democratic political party in Scotland. The SNP supports and campaigns for Scottish independence from the United Kingdom and for membership of the European Union, with a platform based on civic nationalism.
2. Holyrood (/ˈ hɒ liruː d/) is an area in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, where the modern Scottish Parliament Building is situated. The name is often used in the media as a metonym for the Scottish Parliament.
PRE-VIEWING QUESTIONS
1. What do you know about the relations between Scotland and the rest of the UK in the 20th – early 21st centuries?
2. Do you know why the Scottish independence debate is back on the political agenda?
VIEWING TASK
Watch part of the video and answer the following questions:
1. How does Scotland benefit from staying within the union?
2. What events have fostered nationalist sentiments in Scotland since the mid-20th century?
While watching fill in the table.
| events | effect |
Speak up
DISCUSSION QUESTION
Do you think further devolution of powers to the Scottish parliament would take the issue of independence off the table?
Follow-up
Watch the video to the end out of class and decide whether the statements below are true (T) or false (F). Support your opinion. Be ready for the class discussion.
1. All Scots favour independence rather than further devolution.
2. Scotland will not necessarily be better-off if it goes it alone.
3. There isn’t much chance that Scotland will be granted permission to hold another independence referendum.
4. If Scotland leaves the UK, this will create a domino effect.
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5. Reunification of Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland is a possibility.
6. The break-away of any constituent part of the UK won’t have any economic consequences.
Speak up
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. What other challenges and opportunities do you think there would be for Scotland if it gained independence?
2. What impact, in your opinion, would the secession have on Britain?
VOCABULARY PRACTICE 1
Ex. 1. a) Find words in the text to match the definitions below; b) Reproduce in your own words the contexts they are used in; c) Suggest their Russian equivalents.
1. unusually large, powerful, or damaging (par. 2)
2. a situation in which the members of a group or society are united (par. 3)
3. very great (par. 4)
4. to support or encourage the development of an idea, feeling, or ability (par. 5)
5. never stopping, especially in an annoying or unpleasant way (par. 6)
6. the transfer of power from a central authority or government to a lower level (par. 9)
7. having an independent existence or form apart from other similar things (par. 9)
8. an angry unhappy feeling caused by unfair treatment (par. 9)
9. to give up something or control over something (par. 11)
10. to establish something so firmly that it cannot be changed /often passive/(par. 12)
Ex. 2. a) List all possible words with the same root as those in Ex. 1 and translate them into Russian.
e. g. to entrench → entrenchment(укрепление); entrenched(укоренившийся, закрепившийся)
b) Make collocations with the new words and have your classmates translate them. L2
e. g. an entrenched beliefin sth (укоренившаяся вера во что-то)
Ex. 3. a) Continue the strings of collocations; translate the collocations into Russian.
b) Make a sentence with one collocation from each string.
3. profound threat, _______________, _______________, __________________
4. massive war, _______________, ________________, ___________________
5. social, __________________, ___________________, __________________ cohesion
6. incessant disputes, __________________, ____________________, _________________
7. discrete entity, ___________________, ___________________, ___________________
8. to harbor, _______________, ___________________, __________________ resentment
9. to entrench democracy, __________________, _________________, _________________
10. to devolve power, __________________, __________________, ___________________
11. to surrender territory, _________________, _________________, __________________
12. to nourish pride, ____________________, ____________________, ________________
Ex. 4. a) Find in B two synonyms for the words in A and write them next to these words.
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| 1. incessant 2. massive 3. profound 4. to entrench 5. to surrender[10] 6. to nourish | cultivate enormous yield /formal/ serious foster ingrain | continuous embed constant give (oneself) up large-scale extreme |
b) Use dictionaries to find another two synonyms for each word in A. Present them in class: comment on their style and suggest the closest Russian equivalents.
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e. g. to nourish: to nurture /formal/ – взращивать, воспитывать, лелеять
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