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guide. Word study. listening comprehension. war zones. Northern Ireland
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GUIDE
WORD STUDY
I. Join the words to make word combinations:
1. Peace a. land
2. Military b. treaty
3. Gas c. conflicts
4. Gain d. chamber
5. Agent e. absolute power
6. Holy f. orange
7. Solve g. conflicts
II. Give synonyms to the following words:
1. terrible
2. result in
3. rip apart
4. collision
5. scream
6. guiltless
7. strange
8. get power
9. anger
10. stupidity
11. injury
12. manage
III. Give the English equivalents to these word combinations:
1. Прийти к согласию
2. Мужской парикмахер
- Подвергать идеологической обработке
- Иметь точку зрения
- Получить полную власть
- Необычное заболевание
- Закончиться положительно
- Ни при каких обстоятельствах
IV. Form derivatives from the following words:
| NOUN | VERB | ADJECTIVE |
| Traumatic | ||
| Torture | ||
| Morality | ||
| Moderate | ||
| Labour | ||
| Justify | ||
| Dead | ||
| Execute | ||
| Imbecility |
V. Match the words with their definitions:
1. Chamber a. a mental condition caused by severe shock, especially
when the harmful effects last for a long time
2. Brainwash b. a room used for the particular purpose that is mentioned
3. Trauma c. to treat a person or an animal in a cruel or violent way
4. Abuse d. the killing of millions of Jews by the Nazis in the 1930s
and 1940s
5. The Holocaust e. any of the wars fought in Palestine by European Christian
countries against the Muslims in the Middle Ages
6. Siblings f. to force sb to accept your ideas or beliefs, for example by
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repeating the same thing many times or by preventing the
person from thinking clearly
7. Crusade g. a brother or sister
VI. Pick out from the article all the adjectives describing war: useless, immoral, etc
VII. Form the antonyms to the following words using negative prefixes or suffixes:
Moral, humane, justifiable, defeated, logical, holy, easy, guilty, true, just, dependence, agreement, real, lucky, use.
VIII. Fill in the correct phrasal verbs from the list below:
To bring in to take over to come up to tear apart
to come out to work out to come up with
- My mother’s heart was ……………….. when she got the news about her son’s death at the front. ( be broken)
- Thousands of prisoners of war didn’t know what problems might ……………………
when they returned to their motherland because they were not sure whether they would be treated as traitors. ( to happen)
- Israel and Palestine have been fighting for years and can’t ………………………….. any solution to their conflict. ( find an answer)
- Wars always ……………………. a lot of money to some people, military tycoons in particular. ( make money)
- The army is threatening to …………………………. the country if civil unrest continues. (gain control)
- The whole world is looking forward to the American-Iraqi conflict …………………. .
(to end)
- It’s the governments’ task to ……………………… any conflict and settle any differences between the countries ( to solve)
COMPREHENSION
I. Say whether these statements are true or false. Prove your points of view.
- The best solution to the conflicts between the countries is war.
- Mike Sabetai didn’t die in the labour camp because of his special skills.
- He was saved from being brought to the gas chamber due to a lucky chance.
- Even after the war he wasn’t able to get over his war trauma.
- Wars bring destruction to cities, economy of the country, kill soldiers, but they don’t change the life of civilians.
- The consequences of any war are seen long after the end of it.
FOLLOW-UP
Discuss in groups how you understand the following statements:
- Ordinary soldiers are fed to a war machine.
- The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
- Give as many reasons as you can to confirm the statement that war is always immoral.
Write an essay of 360 words on the first or second items.
LISTENING COMPREHENSION
War Zones. Northern Ireland
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I. You’ll hear a woman talking about life in Northern Ireland. Which of the things below does she say?
1. People find it impossible to carry on with their every day lives.
2. The only obvious sign of anything unusual is the number of soldiers
3. Things look normal on the surface, but in fact the fighting has changed people’s lives
4. Ordinary people have no reason to be afraid
5. People try to pretend that everything is normal
6. TV and newspapers give a false picture of life in Northern Ireland
7. Most people from other countries are afraid to go there
8. Northern Ireland would be a dangerous place to visit as a tourist. [20]
II. WAR AND CONFLICTS. SARAJEVO
Part A
1. Before you listen, try to imagine how people lived under siege and how they felt. Think of some questions you would like to ask them, and write them down.
2. While listening, say which of your questions the woman answered. What answers did they give?
3. Judging from what the two women say, which of these characteristics do you think the best describe the people of Sarajevo? Give example from the recording.
Courage humour pessimism resourcefulness anger generosity fatalism greed
Part В
1. One of the women goes on to describe how she survived the winter in Sarajevo. Here are some of the things she talks about: Furniture tea cardboard bricks a cushion her computer chipboard the fire escape central heating a building site
How do all these elements fit together in her description?
Part C
You'll hear a man describing his experience of leaving Sarajevo and going to Ljubljana Slovenia. Notice how the man expresses these ideas.
1. He was crying quietly to himself
2. The villages hadn't been involved in the war
3. I was surprised that Lublajana was so prosperous
4. The shops were full of things to buy
5. The smell was wonderful
VOCABULARY ON WAR AND WAR CONFLICTS
| Ally (n, v) | to ~ with sb | |||
| Allege (v) | alleged weapons | |||
| Assume (v) | ~ control of sth, ~ the worst | |||
| Assumption (n) | ~ of power, control, make ~ about sth, underlying /implicit ~ | |||
| Atrocity (n) | to justify ~ | |||
| Attack (n) | to launch/make/mount an ~, to carry out ~, | |||
| Barrage (n) |
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| Captive (n) | to hold ~, to take ~, the plight of the ~ | |||
| Casualties (n) | to sustain ~, to suffer ~, daunting ~, heavy ~, ~ rate | |||
| Captivity (n) | to be held in ~ | |||
| Collide (v) | ~ with sb over sth | |||
| Collision (n) | to be on a ~ course with sb/sth | |||
| Comply (v) | ~ with | |||
| Compliance (n) | in ~ with sth | |||
| Conflict (n) | armed/military ~, conflict of interests, in ~ with, come into the ~, to resolve the ~ | |||
| Escalate (v) | ~ confrontation
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| Escalation (n) | the danger of ~ | |||
| Expel (v) | ~ people from the country | |||
| Expulsion (n) | to threaten with ~ | |||
| Fighting force (n) | an indigenous ~, to pull ~ from the country | |||
| Flee (v) | ~ the country as a refugee, ~ from the war | |||
| Gruesome(adj) | A ~ murder, ~ pictures of dead bidies | |||
| Guerilla (n) | ~ organization, ~ movement, ~ war, urban guerillas | |||
| Hostile (adj) | ~ to sb, ~ territory, ~ conditions, ~ attitude | |||
| Hostility(n) | the start/outbreak of ~, a cessation to ~ | |||
| Intervene (v) | ~ in the crisis, in the country | |||
| Intervention (n) | military/armed ~ | |||
| Insurgency (n) |
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| Launch (v) | ~ an attack, invasion, a missile, a rocket, a topedo | |||
| Massacre (n) | to survive the ~, bloody ~ | |||
| Moderate (v and adj) | ~ views, policies | |||
| Moderation (n) | to take in ~ | |||
| Negotiate (v) | to negotiate a deal / contract / treaty / settlement, ~ with sb about sth | |||
| Negotiation (n) | peace / trade / wage ~, to enter into / open / conduct negotiations with sb, to be under negotiation. | |||
| Onslaught (n) | ~ against ‘on sb/sth, ~ on military forces | |||
| Oppress (v) | ~ freedom, rights, rebel | |||
| Oppression (n)v | victims of ~ | |||
| Pervade (v) |
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| Pervasion (n) |
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| Pervasive (adj) |
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| Piece accord (n) | to sign a ~ | |||
| Pound (v) |
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| Range (n) | rifle ~ | |||
| Refugee | ~ from the war zone, political / economic ~, a refugee camp | |||
| Reinforce (v) | ~ military presence | |||
| Reinforcement (n) | to send in reinforcements | |||
| Resist (v) | ~ change, pressure | |||
| Resistance (n) | ~ to sb, sth, to put up strong ~, armed~, offer ~, resistance fighters | |||
| Retaliate (v) | ~ against sb/sth, retaliate (by doing sth / with sth) to do sth harmful to sb revenge: | |||
| Retaliation (n) | ~ against sb for sth, in ~ for | |||
| Sanctions (n) | to impose economic ~, ultimate ~, ~ against sb | |||
| Scale (n) | on a large ~, on a grand ~, the full ~ of the disaster, the sheer ~ | |||
| Slaughter (n) | the wholesale slaughter of innocent people | |||
| Squat (v) |
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| Squatter (n) |
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| Struggle (n) | ~ with sb for sth, ~ for independence, peace, ~ against war, violence | |||
| Target (n) | to hit the ~, to miss the ~, a military/civilian ~, a prime ~, a ~ area | |||
| Territory (n) | to allot a ~, to capture a ~, to shrink a~, an enemy/disputed/foreign ~, occupied ~ | |||
| Topple (v) | ~ regime, the president | |||
| Torture (n) | suffer from ~, be under ~, the use of ~, terrible instruments of ~, gruesome ~ | |||
| Violence (v) | to exacerbate ~, to erupt in ~, scattered ~
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| Vulnerability (n) |
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| Vulnerable (adj) | ~ position, ~ to sth, to be ~ to attack | |||
| War (n) | to re-ignite a ~, to wage a~, to propel a~ | |||
| Warfare (n) | air, naval, guerilla ~, biological, chemical, psychological ~ | |||
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