Society.
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 455.
Read the text and make its summary (10-12 sentences).
II. Reading activities.
Match the words taken from the text to their definitions.
Read the following international words. When in doubt – consult the dictionary. Try to guess their meanings.
I. Pre-reading activities.
Unit 1.
activity; party; population; individual; situation; class-based; personal; morality; social; status; idea; modern; balance; structure; process; associate; central; traditional; democracy; fundamental; civilized; liberal; ,multiracial; barrier; politics; politician; dilemma; discuss; culture; variety; total; position; institution; automatically; comfortable; respectable; regularly; cynical; alternative.
| 1. government 2. society 3. morality 4. tax 5. election 6. the Establishment 7. democracy 8. euthanasia | a) social equality and the right to take part in decision-making; b) the choosing of representatives for a political position by vote; c) the painless killing of incurably ill or old people; d) the people who rule the state; e) rightness or pureness of behavior, of an action, etc. f) a large group of people with shared customs, laws, etc. g) money paid to the government according to income, property, goods paid, ect. h) the powerful organization and people who control public life. |
The word society can be used to mean what people also call high society, the activities of very rich and famous people, the clothes they wear, the parties they go to, etc. A society wedding means a wedding at which everyone is well-known.
But when people speak of British or American society they mean the whole population, the way people live together and the institutions they develop in order to do so.
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