SESSION 6: EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

SESSION 6: EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

NOTE: IN ORDER TO WORK WITH THE TEXT, UNDERSTAND AND PREPARE IT BETTER I RECOMMEND THESE EXERCISES.

THERE WILL BE TWO TYPES OF EXERCISES:
1. EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT: THESE ARE EXERCISES FOCUSING ON THE READING COMPREHENSION, WORKING WITH VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIONS.
2. EXERCISES FOR DISCUSSION: EXERCISES FOCUSING ON THE PREPARATION FOR THE DISCUSSION.

1. EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

1.1 TRUE/FALSE: Look at the article and guess whether these sentences are True (T) or False (F):

a. The German leader has said multiculturalism isn’t working in Germany.

b. She was speaking to a gathering of several thousand immigrants.
c. Ms Merkel said people in the 60’s thought immigrants wouldn’t stay.
d. Ms Merkel said it wasn’t necessary for immigrants to learn German.
e. Other German politicians have aired anti-immigration feelings.
f. Ms Merkel is the sister of the leader of the CSU Party.
g. A man called Stephan Kramer suggested people were over-reacting.
h. All of Germany’s immigrants migrated there for the social benefits.

1.2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:
1. attempts ..................... a. showed
2. utterly ........................ b. kidded
3. assessment ................... c. sequence
4. fooled ........................ d. judgment
5. reality ........................ e. trivial
6. series ......................... f. tries
7. concept ...................... g. arguments
8. petty ......................... h. totally
9. debates ...................... i. truth
10. revealed ................... j. idea

1.3 PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from this article (sometimes more than one option is possible):
1. She was speaking at a conference ..... a. irresponsible
2. a shocking assessment of ................ b. of the 60s
3. At the beginning .......................... c. social benefits
4. We fooled ourselves ..................... d. side-by-side
5. to live ..................................... e. immigrant feeling
6. a series of anti- .......................... f. attended by her party
7. the concept of multiculturalism ....... g. a while
8. not only petty but outright ............. h. towards immigrants
9. negative feelings ........................ i. multiculturalism
10. just for the .............................. j. was “dead”


1.4 GAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text:
REALITY - FOREIGN - UTTERLY - SIDE - ATTEMPTS - BUILD - SPEECH - FOOLED

The German chancellor Angela Merkel has told politicians that ____________ to build a multicultural society in Germany have "____________ failed". She was speaking at a conference attended by her party, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), on Saturday. Her ____________ was a shocking assessment of multiculturalism in Germany. She said: "At the beginning of the 60s, our country asked ____________ workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country... We ____________ ourselves a while and said: 'They won't stay… at some time they will go’” She went on: “But this isn't ____________ … And of course, the approach to ____________ a multicultural society and to live ____________ -by-side [happily]... has failed, utterly failed." Ms Merkel also said that immigrants to Germany had to learn German.

REVEALED - PETTY - SISTER - SHOWED - SERIES - MIGRATED - CONCEPT - CURRENT The chancellor’s comments come after a ____________ of anti-immigrant feeling from other German politicians. Perhaps the strongest comment came from Horst Seehofer, the leader of the CDU's Bavarian ____________ party, the CSU. He said the ____________ of multiculturalism was “dead”. Another politician, Stephan Kramer criticized the CSU leader, saying his ideas were "not only ____________ but outright irresponsible”. He attacked the ____________ debates on immigration for being “hysterical”. A recent study into immigration ____________ that over 30 per cent of Germans had negative feelings towards immigrants. The report, from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, ____________ that 34.3 per cent of those surveyed believed Germany's 16 million immigrants ____________ to the country just for the social benefits.