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LESSON 2

Goals:
- to develop the skills of using new lexical units;
- to improve reading and listening skills;
- to develop cognitive interests of students;
- to educate the general culture of students.
Type of the lesson: combined.

PROCEDURE
І. INTRODUCTION

T: Good morning, children! I’m glad to see you! How are you doing today?
(Students answer)
T: Let`s start our class with some warm-up exercise.

Task 1. Translate the text into Ukrainian
Lately, it seems that all we hear about is politics, the politics of running for political
office, the politics of which party is best and even the politics of whether we need politics.
Imagine a world where no politicians existed, and no one sat around arguing over their politics.
In this utopia, everyone would either agree on everything or amicably disagree, with no
recourse to political in-fighting or partisan party politics. While this scenario sounds great, it
probably won’t happen this side of heaven.
As long as you have people, you will have differences of opinion; as long as you have
differences, you will need a way to settle those differences. You will need policies in place to
protect each citizen, and you will need politicians of some sort to monitor, apply and enforce
those policies. Unfortunately, that opens the door to politics. The problem, really, is not so
much politics as politicians.
In a Republic, such as the United States, the people vote for representation. The person
elected is expected to follow the will of the majority in his or her area of representation,
whether that be at the federal, state, district, county, township or other level. The founders of
this republic, set it up that way so as to limit the possibility of “mob rule” where the majority of
voters could turn policy at will. The majority still counts, but does so more indirectly.
Whether the established government consists of a Republic, a Democracy, a Monarchy
or some other form of government, it needs people at its head to keep it running properly. Of
course, in our utopia, each person would act appropriately and never let power, monitary gain
or personal agenda corrupt his or her actions in behalf of the people he or she serves. In the
United States, voters can send a clear message to corrupt politicians through their vote, even
though they obviously do not always do so.
Politics really breaks down at this level, regardless of the type of government. The
individual has a responsibility to act on their freedoms, especially if he or she has the freedom
to vote. The individual has a responsibility to monitor his or her politicians for ethics and
stance. In other words, if the individual takes the time to become informed and then use his or
her vote to let politicians know he or she will not tolerate corruption, a strong message is sent
to the politician. If all do this, politics, and politicians, will be in check.
But what happens between the individual’s votes? The vote itself is not the only
responsibility a citizen should take on. In between votes, while a politician is in office, the
individual has the responsibility to continue monitoring of his or her politician and speaking up
when things go wrong. Citizens often allow lobbyists to set up camp in the political world and

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