Task 1. Choose the episode you like the best and describe it (actors’ performing, music, scene, historical accuracy, etc.)

Task 2. Read and translate the following text. Pay attention to the words in bold. Create your own sentences with these words:

Interviewer: Why did you decide to stand for Parliament?

Politician: Well, I’d been a social worker for a number of years and that had opened my eyes to the huge social divisions in this country. I firmly believed that these were wrong. I wanted to help bring in laws that would lessen the divisions between the rich and the poor. I wanted to do away with taxes for the poorest members of society and to clamp down on rich people who were attempting to avoid paying tax. In short, I wanted to do everything I could to stand up for the principles that I believed in.

Interviewer: So, once you were elected, how did you go ahead with your plans for social change?

Politician: Well, although some other Members of Parliament from my party backed me up, the more influential ones told me not to be too hasty. I learnt then that our party had entered into an agreement with the country’s top business leaders and had promised not to increase taxes for the wealthy for the time being.

Interviewer: Did you stand up to those influential MPs?

Politician: Yes, I told them I was not in parliament to carry out the wishes of big business.

Interviewer: Did other MPs in your party still stand by you at this point?

Politician: Not all of them, but a few very good people did stick by me and we eventually decided to break away and form our own new party.

Interviewer: So, what happened next?

Politician: Unfortunately, none of us were re-elected at the next election but we have been continuing with our campaigns and we hope that at some point in the not too distant future we may be able to carry out our plans to make society a better and fairer place.

Task 3. Match the words and their definitions.

1. a damning indictment	a) didn’t do it (because it was too much effort or because it was pointless)
2. didn't bother	b) very disappointing
3. scale	c) size
4. staggering	d) performed well; here, got lots of votes
5. staying away from the polls	e) if something is a damning indictment of something else, it shows how bad it is
6. a source of deep disappointment	f) different
7. gained ground	g) incredible, amazing
8. overall	h) generally, with everything considered
9. dissimilar	i) not voting
10. switching to	j) turning its attention (from one thing to another)

 

 

Task 4. Write a paragraph about the political system in Russia, Chine, Turkey, Japan or any Arab country, using words from the list:

Member of Parliament, politician, statesman, Prime Minister, chamber, cabinet, President, ambassador, embassy, ministry, constituency, candidate, majority, referendum, by-elections, marginal seat, the opposition, stand/run for Parliament, vote, elect.

Task 5. Imagine that you’re Members of Parliament and there is a discussion of a new bill. You should play the scene. Try to recreate the troubled atmosphere of parliamentary debate.

“Fair Game”

 

Release date: 2010

Director: Doug Liman

Genre: Biography | Drama | Thriller

 

Read information about the film, analyse it and create a summary. Name Middle Eastern countries which were mentioned in the film.

Fair Game is a biographical film drama directed by Doug Liman and starring Naomi Watts and Sean Penn. It is based on Valerie Plame's memoir, Fair Game: My Life as a Spy, My Betrayal by the White House. and Joseph C. Wilson's memoir " The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir".

" Fair Game, " is a drama about the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson. Plame Wilson's CIA status was compromised due to a Bush administration leak about her after her husband Joseph Wilson wrote op-ed columns that accused the administration of manipulating intelligence about weapons of mass destruction to justify the invasion of Iraq. Plame Wilson left the CIA in 2005, and she and her husband filed a civil suit against Vice President Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and Cheney's ex-chief of staff, Lewis " Scooter" Libby. Rove and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage admitted that they leaked her agency status to journalists, and Libby was convicted of lying to a federal grand jury about his role in compromising her covert status.

Then-President Bush commuted Libby's 30-month sentence in 2007 but stopped short of granting him a full pardon despite aggressive lobbying by Cheney before Bush left the White House in January.

 

Task 1. Remember the episodes from the film with the following words.

CIA, weapon of mass destruction (WMD), uranium, covert operation, indictment, following someone, tabloid journalism, taking the fall, de briefing, reckless driving, yellowcake uranium, war ruins, investigation, commuted sentence, political threat, terrorism, political corruption, reflection, traitor, responsibility, breaking point, treadmill, smear campaign, false report, graveyard, justice, political conspiracy, explosion, mossad, faked intelligence, stubbornness, news leak, montage,

perjury.

Task 2. Translate the following words and expressions and create your own sentences with them.

CIA agent, covert operation, credibility, taking the fall, death threat, injustice, integrity, splashing water on one's face, treadmill, news leak, uranium ore, looting, duty as a citizen, security threat, vengeance, government propaganda, trespassing, joint task force, tyranny, pillory, fraud, abuse of power, paranoia, espionage, U.S. department of justice, assumed identity, undercover operation, character assassination, uranium enrichment, treachery, letter of resignation, political manipulation, fertilizer, CIA covert operations, political intimidation, counter proliferation, false accusation, congressional testimony, oath, political dirty tricks, accusation, quasi racist conundrum.

Task 4. Learn the following words and use them in the given sentences.

a) to (dis)trust – trustful – trustworthy – truthful – trust - trusteeship

1. My colleagues will have to take the statement on ___________.

2. Russians ________ the Armed Forces more than any other security or law-enforcement body: 78.4% ______ them to a greater or lesser extent and 18.2% _______ them, according to a ROMIR-Gallup International public representative opinion poll conducted in mid-October.

3. Apart from that, changes made significantly influence the psychological state of a major part of the population due to a loss of the state __________ in part of social guarantees including getting medical care.

4. The ______________ Council is composed of five Member States, China, France, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America.

5. Once in her possession there arose the perplexing problem of finding a _____________ man to put in charge of it.

6. In order to discover truth, we must be __________ ourselves.

7. Her eyes now were imploring, soft, and at the same time __________, caressing, timid.

b) (un/sub)conscious – consciousness – conscience – conscientious

1. Outside of Adelaide fifteen teenage girls from a private girls school were on an outing when all of them lost __________, and then regained it.

2. The dynamic of political _________ is excluded from the historical process in the interests of administrative order.

3. Her father had given her ___________ a dig there—she did cut her last day at school.

4. For the proof of the existence of the ________, we appeal to the _________________.

5. He was a most _____________ official, who had lived in a state of innocence up to the time of his marriage.

 

Task 3. Write an essay on the topic “Espionage, politics and diplomacy”.

“The Ides of March”

Release date: 2011

Director: George Clooney

Genre: Drama

 

Summary.

Stephen Meyers is an idealist who's brilliant at communications, is second in command of Governor Mike Morris's presidential campaign, and is a true believer. In the middle of the Ohio primary, the campaign manager of Morris's opponent asks Meyers to meet; he offers him a job. At the same time, Morris's negotiations for the endorsement of the man in third place, a North Carolina Senator, hit a snag. A young campaign intern, Molly Stearns, gets Stephen's romantic attention. Republicans have a trick up their sleeve; Stephen may be too trusting, and Molly has a secret. What's most important, career, victory, or virtue?

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