PRE – TEXT EXERCISES.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 491.

TERRORISM

UNIT 1

“Terrorism has become the systematic weaponof a war that

knows no borders or seldom has a face.”

Jacques Chirac

Basic concepts:

Terrorism the systematic use of terror as a means of coercion

Terror 1. a state of intense fear

2. violence committed by groups in order to intimidate a population

or government into granting the demands.

Violence 1. exertion of physical forse so as to injure or abuse

2. an instance of violent treatment or procedure

3. instance, turbulent or furious, or often distructive action or force.

Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

Discussion:

1. The Third World War has already begun.

2. Terrorism can be put down by means of terror.

3. To combat terrorism we should be ready for a great amount of victims and even

to sacrifice our own lives.

I. Practice the pronunciation of the following words:

Criterion, premeditated, target, society, unlawful, perpetrate, pursuit, illegitimate, use, disproportionate, guerilla, warfare, genocide, assault, mayhem, coerce, marginalizing, furtherance, inculcate, criteria, deliberate, Holocaust, disgruntled, divergences, pronounced, asymmetrical, argue, inherently, inescapably, unfavoured, proxies, dissent, destabilize, beneficiary, realm, clandestine, unpredictable, democide, phenomenon, squads minorities, indigenous, clergy, liability, plausible deniability, insurgency, tyrannical, torture, liquidation, purges.

II. Practice the pronunciation of the following proper words:

Walter Laqueur, Brian Jenkins, James M. Poland, Martin Luther King, Jr., Noam Chomsky, the Ku Klux Klan, Xenophon, Tiberius, Caligula, Robespierre, Algeria France, Vietnam, Ireland, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Iran, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Argentina, Augusto Pinochet, Orlando Letelier,Gen. Carlos Prats Bernardo Leighton, Tiananmen Square, Dalai Lama, the Weimar Republic, Jews, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Palestinian Hizbullah, Egypt, Qana Massacre Israeli, Nicaragua, Nietzscheans, Croatian fascist Ustashi organization, , the Rumanian Iron Guard, Slovenia.