1. Vocabulary focus:

a) Words and phrases which students are recommended to put down and learn by heart:

• The country's chief prosecutor- Генеральний прокурор країни;

• To raise more issues - спричиняти, викликати нові суперечки;

• Investigation - розслідування, наукове дослідження;

• То rally - зібратися, згуртуватися;

• Slander- брехня;

• DNA test- тест на ДНК;

• То resume - відновити, продовжувати, synonyms: to renew, to restore, to rebuild, resumption (n.).

b) Students have a list of words, which are unfamiliar, and their explanations. They have to make sensible guesses as to what these words might mean from the surrounding context:

• to rally a) to come together for a purpose

b) to get well from illness

• slander a) offence

b) a false report made to destroy a person's reputation

• issue

a) a discharge as of blood from the body

b) a point of debate or controversy

• forgery

a) a result of copying or imitating in order to deceive

b) to rook

• controversial

a) obscure

b) causing much argument or disagreement

2. Grammar focus

While reading the article students were asked to pay attention to the prepositions.

Here are several sentences with gaps and students have to fill in the correct prepositions.

• A body found in a forest near Kyiv was most likely that_________-a

missing journalist critical of the Ukrainian government.

• Potebenko reported_______parliament___________the investigation.

• We must protect Ukraine's constitution and president from slander spread_____________destructive forces.

• In the recording, later released__________an opposing leader, a man

who sounds like Kuchma talk about Gongadze.

• The country's chief prosecutor announced a search ________________

Melnichenko and said he was suspected slander and forgery.

3. Checking general understanding (True/False test)

• A body without head was found in a forest near Kyiv. _T_

• Many people from different parts of Ukraine decided to support

Leonid Kuchma. T_

• Leonid Kuchma's government was criticized by the missing journalist. _T_

• People did not demonstrate across Ukraine. _F_

• Mykhailo Potebenko is the county's chief prosecutor. _T_

• There are a lot of people who refuse to support Ukrainian President. _T_

4. Communication activities

It is worth taking time to consider what variations are possible in the ways that students stand, move and sit. Similarly, the teacher's own position needs to be considered.

1. Students are working in pairs. Each student has a special role-card:

Student B

You are the the country’s chief prosecutor and you have to answer several questions of a reporter

Student A

You are a reporter who is interviewing the country’s chief prosecutor. The topic of discussion: Missing journalist Gongadze

Students have to act out small scenes using their own ideas or ideas and information on role-cards.

b) General discussion of the facts, ideas, events described in the article. Students are sitting in a circle and each one is expected to express his/her point of view. Teacher may ask some additional questions in order to make everything clear. Any volunteer or a teacher may make a conclusion.