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Block II. Video. Block III: Project work. Lesson 2. Global problems. Block I. Vocabulary. Poverty
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Block II. Video
Task 1. Watch the video https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=osY8Ynk7DOM and fill in the blanks:
Americans tend to think that the schools in Britain where students live in a 1)……………… and wear 2)……………… …….. are called 3)……………………..
Some public schools don’t call themselves that, but instead they call themselves 4)……………………. or 5)……………….. schools.
Most state schools are comprehensive, meaning that they 6)……………. Students of every academic ability, but there was a system that’s still 7)………………. in some areas, of secondary modern and grammar schools. There, kids take a test at 8)………… to see what type of school they’ll go to. The grammar schools being more academic whereas the secondary modern more 9)…………………….
Church schools
Many schools in the UK, both 10)………….. and 11)……………, are church schools. Oddly, this does not translate into later church 12)……………….., which is much lower in the UK than it is in the US.
Uniforms
The idea behind it was to create a sense of 13)……………… and 14)…………………..
Prefects
In British schools, all students can be chosen to be prefects. It mostly entails 15)………………the………………. and stopping younger kids from hitting each other. You do get a cool 16)……………….., though.
Head boy and head girl
They attend school council meetings and give a 17)…………….. at prize giving at the end of the year. Prize giving is the closest thing that British have to the graduation ceremony.
Exams
You take GCSE’s at 18)………………and then A-level at 19)………………. Also, in Scotland they study for Highers instead of A-levels. GCSE’s used to be called O-levels.
Revision
It’s what British call 20)……………for…………………….
Juniors and Senior
Instead of America’s elementary, middle school and so on, British schools are divided into juniors and seniors. Junior school, also called 21)……………………, is for 4 to 11 year-olds. Senior school is for 13 to 18 year-olds. In some public schools they’re divided a little differently. They have pre-prep from 4 to 22)……………., prep from 7 to 13 and then senior from 13 to 18.
Sixth form
The last 2 years of school is called the sixth form, divided into the 23)……………….. sixth and the 24)…………….. sixth. The name is a 25)………………. from a previous, more complicated system o naming classes, which has stuck around for some reason. In many schools sixth-formers are given a lot more freedom than the other students, often being allowed to wear their 26)…………………..
University
You apply to do a 27)…………………… to British university and only study that one thing. Bachelor’s degrees generally take 28)…………………..
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Task 2. Answer the questions:
1) What is meant by the fact that most schools are comprehensive?
2) What exams must be taken at schools and universities in the UK?
3) Who can be chosen to be prefects?
4) What is the purpose of uniforms?
5) What is the difference between entering universities in the UK and Russia?
Block III: Project work
You decided to have a gap year. Where are you going to spend it? What do you intend to do there? Are you going there alone or with friends? How long are you going to stay there? What do you consider doing when you get back to your home country?
Lesson 2
Global problems
Block I. Vocabulary
Task 1. Read the text and translate the words and phrases in bold into Russian:
Malnutrition and Famine
Malnutrition is a general term for a condition caused by improper diet or nutrition, and can occur in conjunction with both under and over consumption of calories.
Famine is a widespread scarcity of food that may apply to any fauna species, which phenomenon is usually accompanied by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality.
Starvation describes a " state of exhaustion of the body caused by lack of food. " This state may precede death.
Some 850 million people (one in eight of the world's population) go to bed hungry every night. Such hunger is not due to a shortage of food – globally there is enough to go round and if (a big if) we make the right decisions now, we can continue to feed the world despite population growth and climate change. For example, we can reduce the number of people that are starving by:
Not wasting food
Equal distribution of food (Obesity)
Every 6 seconds one kid dies of hunger.
Illiteracy around the world
Over 60% of adults in the US prison system read at or below the fourth-grade level.
85% of US juvenile inmates are functionally illiterate.
Every year 100000 pupils in the UK leave school illiterate.
In the UK the prison population is some 85, 000. More than three- quarters of them cannot read, write or count to the standard expected of an 11-year-old.
West Africa has the highest number of illiterates in the world according to a study.
Approximately 776 million adults – most of them women – have no secure command of the fundamentals of literacy and numeracy ” whiles seventy-five million children are not in school.
Poverty
Africa includes some of the poorest countries in the world. In much of Africa south of the Sahara, harsh environmental conditions exacerbate the conditions of poverty. Dry and barren land covers large expanses of this region. As the poor try to eke out livings through farming and other subsistence practices, they exhaust the land, using up the soil nutrients needed to grow crops.
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Between 12 and 14 million African children have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS.
64% of children in Sub-Saharan Africa do not have adequate sanitation.
Nearly one third of children in Sub-Saharan Africa are underweight.
Slum - dwellers who make up a third of the world's urban population often live no better - if not worse - than rural people, a United Nations report says.
In Sub-Saharan Africa 72% of urban inhabitants live in slums rising to nearly 100% in some states.
In Latin America about 31% of urban people are classified as living in slums.
In the UK over 13 million of us live in poverty. That's one-in-five without enough to live on.
By 2013 there will be 3. 1 million children in poverty in the UK.
Task 2. Answer the questions:
1) What are the most common global problems?
2) What is the percentage of illiterate people around the world?
3) What are the poorest countries in the world?
4) What are the ways to solve the mentioned in the text problems?
5) What are the factors that influence the situation in the world?
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