Unit 5. Is the System of Social Welfare Fair?

Topics, Problems, Situations	Intercultural Awareness	Speaking	Writing	Reading	Listening	Project
What benefits do people receive in Britain/US/Russia? What categories of people receive benefits in Britain/US/ Russia? How is financial help distributed? What is special about Social Welfare in the USA? What benefits are you or your family/your relatives entitled to? Do you have to pay for medical care? What characterises medical care services in Britain / the USA / Russia? What are good and bad points in the health care services in the USA, Britain, and Russia? How do elderly people live in Britain and in your country? How do the governments in different countries care for pensioners? How do your grandparents live? How should elderly people be treated? Do all people support the idea of a Welfare State? What do you think of a Welfare State?	Welfare State; Social Security; social benefits; NHS (National Health Service in Britain); distribution of financial help; the US Social Welfare; General Practitioners (GPs); (BUPA) private health scheme in Britain; the US Medicare/Medicaid; homes for elderly people; Russian and German war veterans; “Newsweek” about the jobless in a Welfare State; the problem of homeless people in the USA; the Land of the Handout (sources of donation in the USA); an indicator at European health according to the Economist Intelligence Unit	I. About benefits citizens of Russia are entitled to; social security expenditures in Britain; benefits your family receives; health care services in the USA/Russia; advantages and disadvantages of different health care services; good/bad points in being old; care for eldery people in Britain; the government privileges Russia and Germany provide for their disabled war veterans; your grandparents’ life circumstances, elderly people’s life circumstances and problems in Russia; good / bad points of a Welfare State on the whole II. Functions Predicting; comparing ideas without contradicting them; comparing ideas which contradict; giving reasons; convincing; expressing (dis)agreement; asking for information; expressing curiosity; showing interest; trying to change someone’s opinion; saying you know something; giving an example; trying to comfort (to cheer up) III. Grammar Structures For revision: Reported questions, numerals (two per cent) New: Conjunctions and prepositions while / whereas / (al) though / in despite of / despite / because of; the + adjective IV. Lexical Items New: 66	I. About citizens who receive benefits in Russia; Social Welfare in the USA; good/bad points in the NHS in Britain; health care service in Russia; advantages / disadvantages of medical systems in Britain, the USA, Russia; grandparents and their living conditions; Welfare State in Russia II. Writing Skills Guided composition; taking notes; making a report; writing captions; filling in	I. About Adrian Mole, Bert Baxter and other characters from the book “The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13 3/4” by Sue Townsend; Vera and Harry Boyle and their friends from the story “Getting Used to It” by Douglas Dunn; elderly people’s life circumstances from the article “The World Needs the Elderly”; war veterans and disabled people in Russia and Germany from the “Arguments and Facts” article; the unemployed and homeless from the “Newsweek” articles II. Reading and Thinking Skills Guessing meaning by context, analogy interpreting, translating; reading for specific information, for the main idea, for detail; anticipating; predicting; distinguishing facts from opinions; making generalizations; extracting cultural information; comparing facts and ideas; interpreting charts; using dictionary; drawing conclusions; identifying functions within a sentence; understanding ideas that are not stated directly; interpreting pictures and cap-lions III. Lexical Items New: 92	I. About benefits paid to different categories of citizens in Britain and in Russia; social security expenditures; medical care service in the USA; elderly people stay in a home for elderly people; people’s opinions about a Welfare State; a brief passage from the “Newsweek” article “The Land of the Handout” II. Listening and Thinking Skills Listening for specific information, for the main idea, for detail; taking notes	An ideal Welfare State.