Summary. Escalating events begin when U.NEscalating events begin when U.N. interpreter Silvia Broome alleges that she has overheard a death threat against an African head of state, spoken in a rare dialect few people other than Silvia can understand. With the words "The Teacher will never leave this room alive," in an instant, Silvia's life is turned upside down as she becomes a hunted target of the killers. Placed under the protection of federal agent Tobin Keller, Silvia's world only grows more nightmarish. As Keller digs deeper into his eyewitnesses' past and her secretive world of global connections, the more suspicious he becomes that she herself might be involved in the conspiracy. With every step of the way, he finds more reasons to mistrust her. Is Sylvia a victim? A suspect? Or something else entirely? And can Tobin, coping with his own personal heartache, keep her safe? Though they must depend on one another... Task 1. Make a report and a presentation about UNO. Find information about a structure of United Nations. Tell the audience about main functions of each principle organ. Task 2. Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences. Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence correctly.
intractable / uprisings / launched a campaign / ally / veto
1. Turkey used to be a close ________ of Syria, but has recently joined calls for Mr Assad to implement reforms. 2. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told me at the end of March that Turkey feared the chaos that might well follow the fall of President Assad. This is not like Egypt or Libya, he said. It has the potential to become an ___________ sectarian conflict, more like Iraq.
3. But that proposal came with a caveat - a promise from Mr Obama that he would ____________ any bill eventually passed by Congress that cut healthcare but did include new taxes on the rich. 4. Six months after they started their ___________, Syrian opposition groups have for the first time agreed on a single body to represent them. 5. Roald Dahl's family has ___________ to save the hut in which the late author wrote many of his best-loved stories. Task 3. Match the following words with their definitions and then use them in the report. A)
b)use the words in phrases in the following report: The United Nations cultural agency, UNESCO, says more than a third of the world's six thousand languages are in danger of extinction. Of those two thousand, it says, about two hundred are spoken by only a handful of people. When a language dies, __________ says the world loses ______________ - ___________________, poems and the knowledge gathered by generations is simply lost. In 2008, Alaska's last _______________ Eyak died, taking the language with her. Chief Marie Smith Jones, praying here for the survival of the Eyaks. She died at the age of eighty-nine, ______________ to save her people's heritage. UNESCO says government action is needed if the world is ___________________________. People must be proud to speak their language to ensure it survives. In the last five years, the governments of Mexico, New Zealand and the United States managed ________________ locally. But UNESCO says the phenomenon of dying languages appears in every region and in very diverse economic conditions.
Leonardo Rocha, BBC “ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE” Release date: 2007 Director: Shekhar Kapur Genre: Biography | Drama | History
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