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COMPREHENSION. Understanding the reading
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Understanding the reading
Give extensive answers to the questions. Use the following expressions to present your answers.
Ø It ran through my mind that...
Ø To begin with...
Ø I am absolutely sure that...
Ø Speaking about …
Ø As far as … is concerned …
Ø As far as I could understand...
Ø Judging by what I have learned from the above...
1. How can you define the concept of power?
2. What are the three basic sources of power? How do they correlate?
3. What is government? What basic types of government do you know?
4. What is typical for monarchy?
5. How do you differentiate between oligarchy and dictatorship?
6. What are the main features of totalitarian states?
7. How does democracy differ from the other forms of government?
8. Why from your point of view each generation must be encouraged to accept a society's basic political values and its particular methods of decision making?
Scanning
Scan the text to determine whether these statements are true (T) or false (F). With a partner, discuss why.
e.g. In my opinion it is true that/I’m afraid it is false that..., because...
| 1. | Political power is a type of power held by a group in a society which allows administration of some or all of public resources, including labor and wealth. |
| 2. | There are three basic sources of power within any political system – authority, governance and force. |
| 3. | State refers to a set of institutions and practices which combines administrative, judicial, rule-making and coercive powers. |
| 4. | Force is the actual or threatened use of influence. |
| 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. | Authority is the exercise of power through a process of persuasion. A political system is a system of politics and government. A political system is a complete set of institutions, interest groups (such as political parties, trade unions, lobby groups), the relationships between those institutions and the political norms and rules that govern their functions (constitution, election law). Authority is the people or organizations that are in charge of a particular country or area. There are two kinds of democracy: representative democracy and direct democracy, the latter being a variation of democracy founded on the principle of elected people representing a group of people. A dictatorship is defined as an autocratic form of government in which the government is ruled by an individual: a dictator. |
3.4.3 Write a paragraph on:
a) defining the features of a totalitarian state;
b) the approaches to the definition of republic or representative democracy, the terms being interchangeable.