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LISTENING. Foreign Affairs and DIPLOMACY
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2. Watch & Listen to. British Diplomacy
2.A. Starting up. Discuss with your partner:
What is diplomacy? Give your own defenition for “diplomacy” and “a diplomat”
2.B. Vocabulary. Learn the key words and phrases.
1. The Foreign Office
2. to be pro / anti Europe
3. pros and cons
4. the Civil Service
5. civil servant
6. Minister for the Civil Service
7. Minister of State
8. Secretary of State
9. to desire
10. to make sure
11. the Common Market
12. foreign policy objective
13. to divide
14. to rule
15. to reign
16. ancient history
17. current policy
18. politics
19. politician
20. to be terribly pleased
21. to be committed to
22. membership
23. United Nations Organization UNO, United Nations; UN (the United Nations)
24. futile /fju:tail/
25. stir up
26. input
27. European Economic Community EEC Syn: the Common Market, European Common Market
28. appalling
29. solecism
2.C. Vocabulary. In pairs, match the words and their definitions. Compare your answers with the answers of your classmates.
| I. 1.the United Nations 2.legislature 3.cabinet 4.pro 5.minister of state 6.the Common Market 7.current 8.futile 9.stir up 10.ancient 11. appalling | a) (in the British Parliament) a minister, usually below cabinet rank, appointed to assist a senior minister with heavy responsibilities b) an informal name for the European Economic Community (now the European Community, part of the wider European Community) and its politics of greater economic cooperation between member states c) (functioning as singular or plural) an international organization of independent states, with its headquarters in New York City, that was formed in 1945 to promote peace and international cooperation and security d) dating e) of the immediate present; in progress f) having no effective result; unsuccessful g) a body of persons vested with power to make, amend, and repeal laws h) (often capital) the executive and policy-making body of a country, consisting of all government ministers or just the senior ministers; (sometimes capital) an advisory council to a president, sovereign, governor, etc i) in favour of a motion, issue, course of action, etc; j) to set in motion; instigate from very long ago k) causing extreme dismay, horror, or revulsion |
| II. 1.input 2.European Economic Community 3.pros and cons 4.civil servant 5.Treasury 6.secretary of state 7.Number Ten Downing Street 8.foreign office 9.Downing Street 10. Chancellor of the Exchequer 11. solecism | a) (in various countries) the government department in charge of finance b) a member of the civil service c) the various arguments in favour of and against a motion, course of action, etc d) informal the prime minister or the British Government e) that which is put in f) the former W European economic association created by the Treaty of Rome in 1957; in 1967 its executive and legislative bodies merged with those of the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community g) the ministry of a country or state that is concerned with dealings with other states US equivalent h) (in Britain) the head of any of several government departments i) the British prime minister's official London residence j) the cabinet minister responsible for finance k) a violation of good manners |
Watch the video and answer the questions. Do you agree with the definition of diplomacy?
1) Why was the Civil Service united?
2) How long has Britain had the same foreign policy objective?
3) What kind of policy worked so well?
4) Why is the Foreign Office terribly pleased?
5) What kind of ideas are we commited to?
6) What do we call diplomacy?
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