Read the text highlighting the most important parts.
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Text 3 (home assignment)
Discussion. Have you ever met bad leaders? Share your experience with the class.
Look at the words in bold. Could you guess their meaning? Why?
Now find in the texts the words or expresions by their definitions:
| 1. | similar to |
| 2. | a situation that is annoying because it involves doing something difficult or complicated that needs a lot of effort |
| 3. | to go against or refuse to obey a law, an agreement, etc. |
| 4. | an act of making people unemployed because there is no more work left for them to do |
| 5. | the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles |
| 6. | considered very good and worth having (of a job, etc.) |
| 7. | a task or piece of work that somebody is given to do, usually as part of their job or studies |
| 8. | to have the opposite effect to the one intended, with bad or dangerous results |
| 9. | to admit that something is true |
| 10. | a person or thing that does something wrong |
| 11. | 1. to sit on your heels with your knees bent up in front of you 2.to prepare yourself to stay somewhere, keep an opinion, etc. for a long time 3.to refuse to change an opinion, way of behaving, etc. |
| 12. | done in an obvious and open way without caring if people are shocked |
| 13. | to prevent something from happening; to prevent a feeling from being expressed (syn. suppress) |
2. Check the meaning of the underlined words and try to use up to 10 of them in your summary. E.g.:
Non-negotiable = that cannot be discussed or changed; e.g. non-negotiable
demands. Opp.: negotiable
3. Make a plan for your oral summary in class according to the pattern:
- the main idea of the article, the author, the source
- points covered
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- conclusion
- the author's position
- your own attitude/ideas on the topic
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