I. Before listening

1. TRUE / FALSE: Look at the article’s headline and guess whether these sentences are true (T) or false (F):

2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:

3. PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from the article (sometimes more than one combination is possible):

II. Listen and fill in the spaces

The head of Moscow’s Metro system Dmitry Gayev plans to _______ surveillance cameras in all of the city’s subway carriages to _______ the threat of terrorist attacks, the MosNews website reported. The _______ security _______ will be fitted on the Circle Line, the busiest of the Metro’s eleven _______, by the end of this year and on the _______ of the network next year. Mr. Gayev outlined his plans at a news conference in Moscow: “The anti-terrorist protection program for Moscow’s subway will be _______ until 2007”. He said $US59 million in state funding had been _______ for its implementation.

Moscow’s transit system has suffered its own atrocities at the _______ of terrorists, which has left _______ of dead. Chechnyan separatists are the _______ suspects as they _______ their war of independence against Moscow. Last year a suicide bomber detonated an explosive _______ outside a Moscow station, killing 10 people, and in February of this year 41 people were innocently _______ on a rush-hour train. Mr. Gayev said although the new technology could not guarantee an end to this kind of _______, it would make things more difficult for terrorists and “_______ criminal activities in the metro”.

II. Discussion

STUDENT A’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student B)

1) What did you think when you first read this headline?

2) Did the headline make you want to read the article?

3) Do you think CCTV on subway trains is a good idea?

4) Do you think CCTV on subway trains will stop terrorists?

5) Would you like to see CCTV in all areas of public life?

6) Do you think CCTV reduces your privacy and freedom?

7) What other security would you like to see on transport systems?

8) Don’t you think terrorists would simply switch targets if CCTV were present somewhere?

9) Do you think CCTV could have stopped the London bombings?

10) Do you think CCTV is good for discouraging general crime?

STUDENT B’s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A)

1) Did you like reading this article?

2) What did you think about what you read?

3) Do you think transportation systems will ever be free from the threat of terrorist attack?

4) What do you think of the idea of passengers requesting to search one another’s bags?

5) Do you think X-ray machines should be put in subway stations?

6) Would you agree to random body searches by the police?

7) Do you think CCTV increases fear or confidence?

8) Would you agree to the government tapping of phones and e-mails?

9) Do you think anti-terrorism laws could become too strict?

IV. Translate the following text into Russian in a written form.

Assignment 7

Date: 2015-12-24; view: 793