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Society Unit contents
Vocabulary Society Vocabulary Society,, phrasal verbs, crime & justice Grammar Conditionals, wishes & regrets Speaking Reaching an agreement Listening Multiple choice
Skills Extra lessons
S C I R Y L
O E D I V
A R T X E
Writing A discussion essay
A R T X E
‘In the Big Rock Candy Mountains’
Ancient lives: the Maasai
4A Introduction Utopia Lead in 1
Vocabulary V ocabulary Society
Discuss the questions. 1 What are the best and worst things about your country? 2 Can a government make a better society? H ow? 3 Are we more or less civilized than we were in the past? In what ways?
Utopia
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2 Read the text and complete it with the words in the boxes in your notebook. What aspects of More’ More’ss Utopia impress you most and least?
3 Copy and complete the table in your notebook with blue words from exercise 2. Then add suffixes to the blue words words in the box to form new words. capital child educate friend govern innocent king mature victor
adj or noun + -ity
commune
(1 )
wrote a book book which which discusses discusses the the habits habits and (1) … of the people of a fictional island called Utopia. Te name Utopia comes from fr om the Greek ou (no) (no) and topos (place). More didn’t consider Utopia to be a perfect (2) … , but used it to illustrate his ideas about society .
noun + -y , -ry , -ary , -ory
slave
(2 )
noun + -hood
neighbour
(3 )
adj, verb or noun + -dom
free
(4 )
adj or noun + -ism
social
(5 )
Te island contains 54 cities, each with 6,000 (3) … consisting of several families. Tese households take turns to provide meals for their neighbourhood in in big halls. If the (4) … of Utopia grows, people have to go to colonies colonies.. (5) … to travel is limited and Utopians need permission to leave their cities. (6) … is permitted and every household has two slaves, who are either criminals or captives from wars.
noun + -ship
owner
(6 )
verb + -ion -ion,, -tion -tion,, -ation
tax
(7 )
verb + -ment
employ
(8 )
verb or adj + -ance -ance,, -ence
tolerate
(9 )
n 1516, the writer and a nd philosopher Tomas More
community customs freedom households population slavery
Utopia is a (7) … , but King Utopus believes in socialism socialism.. Tere is a welfare a welfare state with state with free (8) … . Tere is no private ownership or taxation taxation on on the island and there is no poverty because because all of the land belongs to the people. Every (9) … learns about agriculture and must live and work in the countryside for two years at a time. Tere is full (10) … and everyone works, but only six hours a day. Tose who have an aptitude for learning or leadership are chosen by the authorities authorities to to continue studying and become governors and (11) … . Tere are no lawyers as the laws laws are are simple but strict. King Utopus believes that money and religion cause many problems in society, so religious tolerance tolerance is is important on Utopia and money isn’t isn’t used, as all (12) … is shared. citizen civil servants employment healthcare monarchy wealth
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Unit 4
Complete all activities in your notebook.
