MY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD COMMUNITY

Dear students,

you have reflected and discussed your intercultural encounters, you have given consideration to youth concerns, moreover, you have learnt about ‘reading’ identities in Internet in the previous unit.

This Unit offers you to think and discuss the issues of international politics and describes various political systems. You will study what democracy is and will know more about international cooperation of our country. You will learn how to make a poster and will take part in a poster presentation. In addition, you will participate in debates discussing strong and weak aspects of the European integration. Also you will learn about markers of integration and will acquire an analytical skill of finding them in the text. Furthermore, you will also reflect about our country, its symbols, its integrity and unity.

· politics, political systems and state structure

· political profile of a country

· the system of checks and balances

· forms of governance and democracy

· present political systems

· compare state structures

· reconstruct content from a cognitive map

· explain the difference between close terms

· skimming texts to fill in the cognitive map

· reconstructing content from a cognitive map

· presenting state structures

· news telling

· reported speech

ΠSearching for ideas: Brainstorming

1. _ Brainstorm the questions below and think over the possible answers.

Ø What do people usually imply when they speak about politics?

Ø What definitions of the term ‘politics’ can you offer?

Ø Can you suppose why people are eager to live in a democratic society?

Ø In what way do democracy and freedom correlate in your opinion?

Ø What associations come to your mind when you think / speak about political system of a country?

Ø What international organizations can you name?

Ø What issues do the international organizations deal with first of all?

Ø What would you include in the list of burning issues of the 21^st century?

2. Fill in the mind-map below, connecting its parts.

 personal vocabulary Building

3. Read the following text. You will learn about the different variations of the definition of the term ‘politics’. Why are there so many definitions, in your opinion?

Date: 2015-04-20; view: 1084