Pre-reading part
Task
1. Listening
comprehension.
Task 2. Comment on the statements. Explain
the meaning and say whether they are related to the content of the article.
a)
Drive
the nail that will go. b) Impossible
is nothing.
While-reading part
Task 1. Read the article and be ready to translate it.
Task 2. Write out the words and phrases given in
bold. Explain the meaning in English. Translate into Russian.
Task 3. Make up a dialogue/interview using new vocabulary.
Trump is able to ‘look past’ criticisms of him, says
Labour minister
Pat
McFadden say he thinks UK and US governments will ‘get on well’ despite past
comments by senior Labour figures
Eleni Courea Political correspondent
Thu 7 Nov 2024 09.31 GMT
Donald Trump is “capable of looking past” things people have said about him in the past, one of Keir Starmer’s closest allies has said. Pat McFadden, a Cabinet Office minister, said he thought the new US and UK governments would “get on well” despite the history of senior Labour ministers criticising Trump.
David Lammy, the foreign secretary, said while he was a backbencher in 2018 that Trump was “woman-hating,
neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath” and a “profound threat to the international
order”.
Wes Streeting, now the health secretary, previously called the
president-elect an “odious, sad
little man” and Ed Miliband, the environment
secretary, called him a “racist, misogynistic self-confessed groper”.
Presented with some of these
comments, McFadden told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “If Donald Trump didn’t
speak to people who have said things like that there’d be a lot of people he
wouldn’t be speaking to.”
McFadden, who is a close ally of the
prime minister, told LBC: “He’s capable of looking past these things. He’s
looked past them before. “Even his biggest backer, Elon Musk, a few years ago
was saying Donald Trump should hang up his hat and walk off into the sunset.
“His vice-president, who’s sitting alongside him in the White House for
the next four years, mused once whether Trump was another Richard Nixon or
America’s Hitler.”
He added: “I think there is a bigger
point that we can miss in reading these things out is that the alliance and the friendship between the
US and the UK is really deep and enduring, and I see it in government on a
practical day-to-day basis on defence, security, intelligence, trade – on lots
of fronts.” McFadden refused three times to say whether he believed Trump had
neo-Nazi or Ku Klux Klan sympathies.
“The relationship between the UK and
America is really important,” he said. “I think there’s another point that we
shouldn’t miss here. Because of the timing of the two elections both being
within a few months of one another we now know the character of the two
governments on both sides of the Atlantic for the next four years.”
Starmer phoned Trump to congratulate him on his victory on
Wednesday night. A Downing Street
spokesperson said the prime minister “offered his hearty congratulations
and said he looked forward to working closely with President-elect Trump across
all areas of the special relationship”.
The two leaders “fondly recalled
their meeting in September, and President-elect Trump’s close connections and
affinity to the United Kingdom”, according to the spokesperson.
Starmer and Trump had a two-hour
dinner in New York in September, which Lammy also attended. The foreign
secretary has sought to build links with
senior Republicans allied with Trump.
Trump and Starmer discussed the
situation in the Middle East but there was no mention of Ukraine in the readout of their call.
The president-elected has said he
wants to end the war in Ukraine quickly and criticised the Ukrainian president,
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for not making more
concessions to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
Post-reading part
Task 1. Divide the text of the article into logical parts. Make
up questions to each logical part. Provide a summary sentence to each logical
part.
Task 2. What
is the main idea of the article?
Task 3. Does
the author of the article sound objective or subjective?
Task 4. Write a rendering of the article. Mind the rules of a rendering writing.
Task 5. Learn the new
vocabulary from the article be ready to write the dictation-translation.
