Английский язык для специальных и академических целей: Международные отношения и зарубежное регионоведение. Часть 1 - [4]
5. умение создавать письменные произведения по общественно-политической тематике (эссе, резюме, обзоры).
Информационно-аналитические умения и навыки:
1. умение самостоятельно работать со справочным материалом и специальными словарями;
2. умение обрабатывать большой материал информации, выбирая главное;
3. умение анализировать, сравнивать, делать выводы.
1. Великобритания: традиции и современность.
2. Американские ценности вчера и сегодня.
3. Настоящее и будущее европейской интеграции.
Индивидуальная, парная, групповая работа. Проектная работа в командах.
Экзамен включает:
1. написание резюме статьи по социально-политической тематике (300-350 слов) без словаря. Время выполнения — 90 мин;
2. устное высказывание продолжительностью 3-4 минуты на заданную тему (время подготовки — 10-15 минут) с последующим обсуждением в парах (вопросы, комментарии).
1. языковая компетенция
2. умения в области чтения и переработки информации
3. умение передавать содержание статьи по профессионально ориентированной тематике в сжатой форме и своими словами
4. умение делать краткое сообщение-рассуждение
5. умение слушать собеседника, анализировать его/ее аргументацию и опровергать его/ ее доводы.
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THE ROAD MAP FOR UNIT I
SPEAKING
DEBATE
Holding a debate on a politically relevant topic (for details see p. 36 )
TERM PRESENTATION
Making a power point presentation based on one's analysis of an issue relevant to the topic (Britain: From Empire to Democracy) (for details see p. 31)
INTEGRATING CORE SKILLS
PROJECT WORK
Doing research as a team and presenting results (for details see p. 38)
1. Do you think Britons should be proud of the British Empire?
2. What, in your view, is the legacy of the Empire?
THE BRITISH EMPIRE'S LEGACY (Based on Conclusion Chapter from Empire. How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson. Penguin books LTD, London, 2004)
The British Empire is long dead; only flotsam and jetsam>1 now remain. What had been based on Britain's commercial and financial supremacy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and her industrial supremacy in the nineteenth was bound to crumble once the British economy buckled under the accumulated burdens of two world wars. The great creditor became a debtor. In the same way, the great movements of population that had once driven British imperial expansion changed their direction in the 1950s. Emigration from Britain gave way to immigration into Britain. As for the missionary impulse that had sent thousands of young men and women around the world preaching Christianity and the gospel of cleanliness, that too dwindled>2>>3, along with public attendance at church. Christianity today is stronger in many of her former colonies than in Britain itself.
It cannot be denied, however, that the imperial legacy has shaped the modern world so profoundly that we almost take it for granted. Without the spread of British rule around the world, it is hard to believe that the structures of liberal capitalism would have been so successfully established in so many different economies around the world. Without the influence of British imperial rule, it is hard to believe that the institutions of parliamentary democracy would have been adopted by the majority of states in the world, as they are today. India, the world's largest democracy, owes more than it is fashionable to acknowledge to British rule. Its elite schools, its universities, its civil service, its army, its press and its parliamentary system all still have discernibly>4> British models. Finally, there is the English language itself, perhaps the most important single export of the last 300 years. Today 350 million people speak English as their first language and around 450 million have it as a second language. That is roughly one in every seven people on planet.
Of course no one would claim that the record of the British Empire was unblemished>5>. On the contrary, I have tried to show how often it failed to live up to its own ideal of individual liberty, particularly in the early era of enslavement, transportation and the ‘ethnic cleansing' of indige-nous>6> peoples. Yet the nineteenth-century Empire undeniably pioneered free trade, free capital movements and, with the abolition of slavery, free labour. It invested immense sums in developing a global network of modern communications. It spread and enforced the rule of law over vast areas. Though it fought many small wars, the Empire maintained a global peace unmatched before or since. In the twentieth century too it more than justified its existence, for the alternatives to British rule represented by the German and Japanese empires were clearly far worse. And without its Empire, it is inconceivable that Britain could have withstood them.
Unit I. UK: from Empire to Democracy
