TEST: WEEK 12
TEST
MONDAY
1. THEORY
2. ANALYTICS
WEDNESDAY
3. CURRENT ISSUES
- Summarise the video, speaker’s viewponits on the topic of the discussion
- Comment on the ideas expressed in the Round table
4. THE WORLD THIS WEEK
VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR
KEY TERMS
| primary | partially self-governing, esp. with reference to internal affairs |
| micro | the steps you take to make sure you are safe before, during and after an emergency or natural disaster |
| emergency preparedness | showing complete agreement |
| awareness | to keep in a certain condition, operation, or force;to keep in existence; preserve |
| efficiency | refers to each party obeying the terms of the contract and performing the duties outlined therein |
| proliferation | a rapid and often excessive spread or increase |
| semi-autonomous | having knowledge or realization of; conscious of |
| unanimous | extremely small/ very large in scale, scope, or capability |
| legally binding | competence; effectiveness |
| maintain | first in rank or importance; chief |
FOCUS WORDS
- on the agenda
- accounts for
- stem from
- subject to
- precursor for
- equivalent of
- aim at
- on the contrary
- support for
- for these reasons
- to one’s credit
- owing to
- impediments to
- forum for
- predicate upon
PREPOSITIONS
WORDS FOR REPORT
| a clear age gap on the issue |
| compared with a smaller share |
| more likely to favor |
| the survey explored the public’s views about |
| Overall, |
| In regard to the negative consequences, |
| substantial majorities |
| no statistically significant difference by age |
GRAMMAR PATTERNS
According to government projections, the population is expected to shrink by 2.5 million people by 2035, and the active working-age population will likely decrease by 3.1 million people.
By the 2000s, cases of forced migration had sharply decreased, but migrant workers from Central Asia were flooding the Russian labor market.
Asian migrants have occupied certain niches in the labor market, such as retail, construction and household services, and as visible minorities, they often encounter xenophobic attitudes.
This ongoing debate has caused a number of dizzying reversals in migration policy over the past two decades.
Policies were restrictive from 2002 until 2005, and again from 2008 to 2012, but the periods from 2006 to 2007, and again from 2013 to 2016, were relatively liberal.
If the federal authorities are rather reserved in their sympathies and antipathies to different migrant minorities, then regional authorities are free to consider anti-migrant attitudes of their constituents, often using any chance they get to demonstrate their control of the labor market and forbid migrants to engage in various types of economic activity.