Speech activities

Translate into English, make use of the functional vocabulary.

Replace the italicized parts with the words and word-combinations from the functional vocabulary.

Suggest antonyms of the words given below.

Find the words in the text which have a similar meaning to the following.

Language focus

1. Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases. translate them into Russian. Make use of the supplementary texts “Who needs morals?”, “Parents are too permissive with their children nowadays”.

– interaction with others;

– liberation from down-drag of base instincts;

– trustworthy;

– pluralistic society;

– morality was privatized;

– the chickens have come home to roost;

– laissez-faire approach;

– a toddler;

– hypocrisy.

debate, sheer, fraud, fatal, to assert, fray, modern parlance, rigid, savage, to impart, thorny, to bewilder, to spank, an offspring, to roam, pundit, to mug.

to liberate, spiritual, ease, fraud, collectivism, civilized, permissive, moral, secular, laxity, trustworthy, laissez-faire.

4. Match the words with their definitions. Translate them into Russian/Belarusian

bewilderment	immorality, dishonesty, not respectable activity
sleaze	temporary decline in economic activity and prosperity
fraud	vigorous beginning (esp. of sth unpleasant)
recession	deceiving sb in order to make money
onset	a feeling of confusion and indecisiveness about what to do

1. Each person can make a difference to the world through cooperation with others.

2. Most people are eager to be dignified and to have a purpose in life.

3. The country is mixed up in a public debate on standards in public life, ethics in business and education, violence in the media and collapse in the family.

4. Moral philosophers, social analysts and politicians are all involved into the fight.

5. The incidence of teenage deaths caused by drugs has been soaring in the last decades.

6. The spread of permissiveness would lead to family breakdown.

1. за революционными изменениями в общественной жизни в 60-х г. XX в. последовал экономический спад.

2. Супружеские измены, насилие, грабежи, жестокое обращение с детьми, рост смертности среди подростков, употребляющих наркотики, вызвали нарастающую волну гнева, отчаяния, протеста в обществе.

3. Традиционные авторитеты – родители, школа, церковь, семья, общество – утратили свое влияние на подростков.

4. Философия эгоцентризма является, по убеждению многих ученых мужей, оправданием всех антисоциальных поступков, создавая тем самым глубокие противоречия между свободой и принуждением, правами и обязанностями.

1. Answer the following questions. Make use of the supplementary texts “Who needs morals?”, “Parents are too permissive with their children nowadays”.

1. What lies at the heart of moral re-armament?

2. What is to be yourself for you? Is it the same as “do what you want as long as you don’t harm anyone else”?

3. What are the issues of a public debate in Britain? Are these concerns similar to those of your society?

4. How can you characterize the morality of the present-day British society? Prove your opinion by giving arguments from the text.

5. What has brought the society to this mess? How much is the family responsible for the orderly situation in our society? Do you defend the Victorian attitude to children?

6. What is the opinion of a “Youth of Today” member on morality and moral education, in particular?

7. Can a permissive society become a civilized society?

8. What is referred to moral values?

2. Do you agree with the following statements? Make use of the texts “Who needs morals?” “Parents are too permissive with their children nowadays”.

1. Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike (O. Wilde).

2. Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo (H. G. Wells).

3. Lax authority over the years makes adolescent rebellion against parents all the more violent.

4. The dividing-line between permissiveness and sheer negligence is very fine indeed.

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