Task 1. Answer the question.

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1. Characterize the epoch: clothes, traditions, manners. Give a highly accurate socio-historical picture of what was going on around Jane Austen.

2. Describe the role of women in the society of that time.

3. Were there any other women novelists before Jane Austen? Why was it so difficult to indulge in a professional skill?

4. Who was a middle class society in England at the time?

5. What emotions does this film arouse?

6. What did you like best about the film? Why?

7. What, if anything, did you learn from the film?

8. Was there anything you did not understand about the film? What was it?

9. Which character in the film did you like best least /? Why?

10. Did you like the way music was used in the film? Why or why not?

11. How would you have used music in this film?

12. Did the ending of the film seem appropriate? Why or why not?

13. How would you have ended the film?

Task 2. Choose one of her books and make a presentation about it. The plot, characters, traditions, manners, speech and so on. Explain your choice.

Task 3. Write a piece of essay about role of the women in the society of that time. Make a comparison with the modern epoch.

“PEARL HARBOR”

Release date: 2001

Director: Michael Bay

Genre: Action | Drama | Romance

Summary.

Pearl Harbor is a classic tale of romance set during a war that complicates everything. It all starts when childhood friends Rafe and Danny become Army Air Corps pilots and meet Evelyn, a Navy nurse. Rafe falls head over heels and next thing you know Evelyn and Rafe are hooking up. Then Rafe volunteers to go fight in Britain and Evelyn and Danny get transferred to Pearl Harbor. While Rafe is off fighting everything gets completely whack and next thing you know everybody is in the middle of an air raid we now know as " Pearl Harbor."

Task 1. Write a detailed summary about one of the scenes. If you choose the battle scene use as many expressive words as you can.

Task2. Make a report and presentation about one military conflict. Write a profile of the conflict with details.

Task 3. Match the words and expressions with their definitions. Fill the blank with the words from a):

a) Match the words and expressions with their definitions:

1. anniversary	a) if you mark something, you remember it, you commemorate it
2. designated United Nations safe area	b) if an area is overrun then a force occupies it very quickly
3. massacre	c) if you make your way somewhere, you travel, go to that place
4. tensions	d) is a word for someone returning to a place
5. convoy	e) a date which is remembered or celebrated because an important event happened on that date in a previous year is called an anniversary
6. made its way	f) a massacre is when a large number of people are killed, often in a violent or cruel way
7. indicted	g) an official area controlled by the Untied Nations where civilians are supposed to be safe from attack
8. obscenities	h) feelings of fear and danger
9. overran	i) a convoy is a group of vehicles travelling together
10. mark	j) a legal term which means someone has been officially charged with a crime
11. returnees	k) if you have to brave something, you have to experience something negative, difficult or dangerous
12. brave	l) an obscenity is a rude or offensive comment designed to be insulting

b) Fill the gaps with words and expressions from a):

Return to Srebrenica

In 1995 7000 people were killed in the town of Srebrenica when Bosnian Serb forces overran the area. 2000 muslims returned recently to mark the anniversary.

Fifteen year old Maja Daudovic was among the two thousand people who returned to Srebrenica to ________ the ________ of Europe’s worst __________ since the Second World War. She was only ten when her father disappeared, one of seven thousand men killed when Bosnian Serb forces _________ the ____________________________ in July 1995. It was the first time she had been back, she was on the ______________ of more than forty buses which ___________________ to the UN compound just outside the town. It was there that Forces commanded by the _____________ war criminal, General Ratko Mladic, separated the men from the women, sent the women out of the town and took the men away to be executed.

To get back to Srebrenica today, the ___________ had to ______________ angry Serbs who lined the last part of their route shouting threats and ______________ and making victory signs. The ceremony itself was simple and brief, two Muslim prayers to remember the dead. But earlier in the day, a reminder of the _____________ which still exist here, a house belonging to some Muslim returnees was set on fire, it’s the fourth such fire in six weeks. On such a sensitive anniversary, it was a clear signal to any more of the Bosnian Muslims planning to return to the town

Task 4. Round-table discussion. Discuss the following questions in the group. You may choose one of the following roles for discussion (soldier, politician, mother, priest) or may create your own role or speak from yourself.

Problem of international conflicts. Role of international organizations.

Terrorism – a new kind of war.

Patriotism and modern world.

Task 5. Write a piece of essay “If we don’t abolish war, war will abolish us.”

“ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN”

Release date: 1976

Director: Alan J. Pakula

Genre: Biography | Drama | History

Summary.

In the run-up to the 1972 elections, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case, and the discovery of names and addresses of Republican fund organizers on the accused further arouses his suspicions. The editor of the Post is prepared to run with the story and assigns Woodward and Carl Bernstein to it. They find the trail leading higher and higher in the Republican Party, and eventually into the White House itself.

Task 1. Red the dialogue very attentively paying attention to the words in italic. Can you remember another words with the suffix – gate.

William: Hello, I'm William Kremer and this is The English We Speak.

Wang Fei: Hi there. I'm Wang Fei.

William: So, Wang Fei, today is 3 May.

Wang Fei: Yes.

William: Do you know what 3 May is?

Wang Fei: Hmm… a Tuesday?

William: Yes, it's a Tuesday, but it's not just any Tuesday. Today is World Press Freedom Day. This is the day that the United Nations has chosen to highlight the importance of a free press around the world.

Wang Fei: A free press. So, newspapers that are free to write anything they think the public need to know and TV news that can report anything?

William: Yes they can report anything, including things that look bad for the government! Scandals.

Wang Fei: A scandal, so something very bad that damages someone's reputation.

William: Exactly. And one of the most famous scandals from American history is the Watergate scandal of the early 1970s.

Wang Fei: Watergate… that was why President Nixon had to resign wasn't it?

William: Exactly, yes, because he was shown to have lied to the American people and basically obstructed the course of justice. The whole thing started when five men were arrested for breaking into an office block called Watergate. This was where the Democratic Party had their headquarters. Later on, the men were linked to the campaign to re-elect President Nixon, who was in the Republican Party.

Wang Fei: Well, this is very interesting but what has it got to do with The English We Speak, William?

William: Well, because Watergate was such a massive scandal, the word -gate is now sometimes used as a suffix to suggest that something is a scandal. So, to give you an example from last year, when Gordon Brown was trying to get re-elected as British Prime Minister, he was overheard calling an old lady a " bigot" – a very strong word for somebody who is intolerant and close-minded. Anyway, this was a big scandal and it came to be known in the media as 'bigotgate'.

Wang Fei: Bigotgate. That sounds almost a little bit funny.

William: Yes, you're right. I think using -gate on the end of a word can make it seem a little humorous. This term -gate is used more in the USA, but another recent example from the UK is 'Climategate' – that was when some emails and other documents from a university in England led to people asking questions about the way that scientists researched climate change. Climategate.

Wang Fei: So, can we use –gate in normal English conversation too?

William: Yes, you can – if you want to make a joke. Listen to this:

Man A: Have you seen Mark recently?

Man B: Mark – he hasn't spoken to me since beergate!

Man A: Beergate? What do you mean?

Man B: We had a big argument because I said Mark never bought a round of beer in the pub! He got very upset and went home.

Wang Fei: So in that example, the speaker coined the word beergate to describe an argument about paying for beer!

William: Yeah, which is obviously very silly. But of course, this suffix -gate is used in very serious situations too. And it was thanks to members of the free press, including the Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, that the public came to know about Watergate.

Wang Fei: Yes. Check our website this week for more information about World Press Freedom Day. Goodbye.

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