Comment on the presentation given by your colleague. Make use of the points and helpful phrases given in Appendix 2.
Make up a questionnaire to survey the class into their opinions about the achievements in the human rights provision in the third world countries. Write a report summarizing the main viewpoints and giving your comments on them.
DIALOGUES
Dialogue 1
Read and translate the following dialogue:
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights as Human Rights
| A. | Judging by what I’ve derived fromour lectures, long before human rights were written down in international documents and national constitutions, people revealed their commitment to principles of propriety, justice, and caring through cultural practices and oral traditions. Basic rights and responsibilities, such as the right to food and the golden rule of “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,” revolved around family, tribe, religion, class, community, or state. |
| B. | As a matter of fact, the earliest attempts of literate societies to write about rights and responsibilities date back more than 4,000 years to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi. This Code, the Old and New Testaments of the Bible, the Analects of Confucius, the Koran, and the Hindu Vedas are five of the oldest written sources which address questions of people’s duties, rights, and responsibilities. |
| A. | Definitely,today, the promotion of human rights is guided by what is referred to as the International Bill of Rights. It includes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and two treaties – the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights. |
| B. | A list of human rights concerns, specified in Articles 16 and 22-29 of the UDHR, impressed me greatly. They refer to: marriage and family; work and leisure (free choice of employment, just conditions of work, equal pay for equal work, just remuneration, freedom to form and join trade unions, and rest); a standard of living adequate for food, shelter, clothing, medical care, and social services; education (free and compulsory elementary education, equal access based on merit, parental choice, and full development of the human personality); protection of one’s own literary, scientific, and artistic productions and many more. |
| A. | That’s right.The United States has long attended to some of these economic, social, and cultural rights. For example, during the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) sought to save the US struggling economic system and implement his vision of economic and social justice. In a 1937 speech in Chicago, FDR declared, “I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished … The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.” Four years later, in his State of the Union Address, FDR spoke inspiringly of a world with four major freedoms – freedom of speech and religion and freedom from want and fear. |
| B. | What is more,during Roosevelt’s presidency band in the years since, the United States has sought to respond to these economic and social needs with new policies. These have included health insurance programs, social security insurance, unemployment insurance, public works projects, farm supports, expanded educational opportunities, and laws supporting worker rights to organize and strike. However, US government leaders have never presented these to American people as human rights to which everyone is entitled. |
| A. | I’m clear now. I suppose we feel exhausted.We have got a real recital of facts and surmise. |
| B. | Let’s call it a day. |
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Task 1 . Report the dialogue. Use the following reporting verbs:
| · to acknowledge that | · to explain that |
| · to surmise that | · to mention |
| · to confirm | · to make it clear |
| · to explain | · to finalize the matter |
Task 2. Imitate the dialogue as if A speaks English and B speaks Russian through the interpreter.
Task 3. Do it in English :
A.
· свободный выбор работы
· полное развитие человеческой личности
· справедливое вознаграждение
· относиться, быть датированным
· защита своих собственных литературных, научных и художественных произведений
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· заявлять
· подробное изложение фактов и предложений
· страхование на случай безработицы
· основные права и обязанности
· социальное страхование
· Ветхий и Новый Завет Библии
· справедливые условия труда
· Давайте заканчивать.
· свобода сформировать или присоединиться к профсоюзам
· программа медицинского страхования
· равная оплата за равный труд
· во время президентского правления Рузвельта
· бесплатное и обязательное начальное образование
· жить в плохих условиях, быть плохо одетым и плохо питаться
B .
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