Reading and understanding newspapers. Пыж А.М. - 48 стр.

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After-reading task 3: paraphrase the following sentences from the text
explaining their meaning.
1. The fraying of America’s social fabric is fast becoming a national
obsession.
2. The combined effect of these sicknesses, rooted in phony doctrines of
liberalism, has been to tax the nation’s optimism and sap its confidence in
the future.
3. Altruism is not encouraged in a culture of acquisitive individualism.
4. There is a great yearning in the country to provide our national life and
institutions with a larger moral dimension.
5. Everyone who could benefit should have the opportunity not just for
learning skills but for learning how to find sustenance in knowledge.
After-reading task 4: the editorial consists of several paragraphs. Reread
every paragraph attentively and express its contents with a sentence of your
own. For example:
Paragraph 1. The modern American society experiences a moral decline.
After-reading task 5: now that you have 6 sentences reflecting the
contents of each paragraph, trade down the relations between them. For
example, a subsequent paragraph can be an illustration to the main idea of
the previous one, or it can state the reason, the consequences or a suggested
remedy. Present the skeleton of the editorial together with the connections
between the paragraphs in a table:
Paragraph 1. The modern American
society experiences a moral decline.
Paragraph 1 introduces the message
of the editorial.
Paragraph 2. There are constant
confrontations between the members of
the society and the authorities.
Paragraph 2 illustrates paragraph 1.
Present your table in the form of a coherent text paying special attention
to the connectives between different paragraphs. Mark these connectives. You
will get a short summery of the contents of the editorial.
Example: The editorial deals with the moral decline that the American
society experiences at present. The statement can be illustrated by the constant
confrontations between the members of the society and the authorities.

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