Which of the prefixes above commonly precede the following words?

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 454.

1) European; 2) industrial; 3) nuclear; 4) lateral; 5) wife; 6) conformist; 7) terrorist; 8) communist era; 9) fascist; 10) essential; 11) media; 12) payment; 13) specialist; 14) government; 15) national; 16) war.

Speaking 1 MIND OVER MATTER

Answer the following questions:

· Do you think many people suffer from being depressed?

· Do you think you need to go to specialists to learn more about yourself and change your life patterns?

· Do you think dreams reflect what goes on in everyday life?

I. ARE YOU ASSERTIVE ENOUGH IN TODAY'S DIFFICULT WORLD?

1) Do you buy things you don't really want because it is difficult to say ‘No' to the salesperson?

2) Do you hesitate to return items to a shop even when there is good reason to do so?

3) If someone talks in a loud voice during a film, play or concert, can you ask him/her to be quiet?

4) Can you begin a conversation with a stranger?

5) When a friend makes an unreasonable request, are you able to refuse?

6) Can you ask favours or make requests of your friends?

7) Can you criticise a friend?

8) Can you praise a friend?

9) When someone compliments you, do you know what to say?

10) Do people tend to exploit you or push you around?

1. Note down your answers to the questions. Mark the answers which show that you are unassertive.

2. Requesting and refusing politely

With a partner, work out what you would say:

- to some people who started whispering in a concert

- to a friend who asked you to lend him/her $20

- to a stranger in a bus queue after waiting for ten minutes

- to a friend who lets her child stay up till very late in the evening

- to a friend who has just got a job he/she has always wanted

- to a friend who says ‘I like you in that colour, it suits you'

- to your boss who asks you to stay late and do some work for him/her for the fourth time in one week.

II. ASSERTIVENESS TRAINING

The world contains many people who don't recognize their own strengths or who have learnt to act in inferior ways because they believe themselves to be inferior. They find it impossible to express emotions like anger or tenderness. They follow the wishes of others and hold their own desires inside themselves. Because they have no control of their own lives, they become increasingly unsure. They become ‘unassertive'. Often a victim of unassertiveness does not recognise it as an emotional problem. From passivity and fear, he or she justifies it with excuses: ‘If I answer him back, he'll be angry with me…' ‘Unless I do what she wants, she'll leave me…' ‘Why bother to try? I'm bound to fail'. This is the sort of behaviour you learn, and you can unlearn it. You can find the answers to your problems in a scientific technique called Assertiveness Training (AT), through which, by changing your actions, you change your attitudes and feelings towards yourself. Just as you have trained yourself to be neurotic, you can teach yourself to be normal.