Questions we will discuss:

1. Which country is much more better for a living? (in your opinion)

2. Do many people emigrate from your country? Where do most of them go?

3. Why do people leave your country? What are they looking for?

4. Have you considered emigrating in your young period?

5. Do you feel pressure when you live long period abroad (in another country)?

6. Is it complicated to be a foreigner in your country?

7. What challenges do you think an immigrant faces in a new country?

8. Some people believe there should be free migration throughout the world (no borders). What would be the result of anybody being able to go anywhere?

9. Do you think immigrants should learn to speak the language of their new country? How well do they need to speak it?

10. Do countries have benefits from immigrants and refugees or just problems?

11. High economic level country is equal 🟰 safe and good for a living country?

12. If someone you knew were planning on coming to your country, what would you tell them to expect?

13. What are the 2 or 3 most important things that people could do to make the process of coming to a new country better?

14. Why did you (your family) choose to come to this country / city instead of somewhere else?

15. Do you miss your motherland / hometown (where you were from)?

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Motherland (n.)
- The country where you were born or where your family came from.

Hometown (n.)
- The city or town where one was born or grew up.

Considered (adj.)
- Having been thought about carefully.

Emigrate (v.)
- Means to leave one's country to live in another.

Immigrate (v.)
- Is to come into another country to live permanently.

Migrate (v.)
- Is to move, like birds in the winter. The movement of a person or people from one country, locality, place of residence, etc., to settle in another.


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Books.
 
1. Did someone read to you when you were a child?

2. Who's your all-time favorite book character?

3. Who's your favorite author of all time? Your favorite book by them?

4. What genres do you love?

5. Are there any genres you dislike?

6. Do you prefer old books or new ones?

7. What was your favorite book when you were a child?

8. Would you like more time to read books?

9. Do you like to write reviews on Amazon or Goodreads?

10. How do you choose what books you want to read?

11. Do you prefer to read one book at a time or several at once?

12. Have any books you’ve read had an important effect on your life? If so, how?

13. Do you prefer to read paper books or digital books? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each format?

14. What kinds of books do you usually read? – The classics? Detective novels? Historical novels? Biographies? Travel? Science-fiction? Non-Fiction?

15. How do you choose the books you’re going to read?
– Favourite authors? Recommendations from friends? Browsing in bookstores or online?



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Useful phrases.


Front cover
- The outer front part of a book


Browse
- To look at the goods in a shop without wanting to buy any particular thing


Paperback
- A book with a paper cover (cheaper than hardback)


Blurb
- A short description giving information about a book placed usually on the back cover


A bookworm
- Someone who reads a lot


Hardback
- A book that has a rigit cover


Memoirs
- A kind of writing that tells someone's memories


A short story
- A fictional narrative written in prose, which is shorter than a novel.


Autobiography
- Writing about a person's life written by that person


Readable
- Easy or interesting to read


A chapter
- A section of a book


A review
- An article in a newspaper or magazine that gives an opinion about a new book, play, film etc


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Are you ready to talk about something unusual?

Today see you in English chat for a good discussion.✨

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🗣️ Topic: «Paradox of poverty»
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Questions:

1. What is poverty? (in your opinion)

2. Do you believe problem of education is a key factor in addressing the paradox of poverty? Why or why not?

3. Why do so many people in the world live below the poverty line?

4. What do you think living below the poverty line is like?

5. Is it possible for the world to make poverty disappear?

6. How can technology be both helpful and challenging for people experiencing poverty?

7. Can you share examples of programs or initiatives that aim to break the cycle of poverty in your community or country?

8. Aristotle said: "Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime." What do you think?

9. Why does poverty exist in rich countries like the USA, UK?

10. Do you think cultural factors influence the experience of poverty? If so, how?

11. Is poverty different in rich countries than in poor ones?

12. How would the world be different if there was no poverty?

13. Can you think of instances (situation) where economic growth did not lead to a reduction in poverty?

14. How might discrimination and inequality impact (influence) the experiences of those living in poverty?

15. In your opinion what should I do every day that really change situation with poverty in my country, small district? Is it possible or no?


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The paradox of poverty in the U.S. is persistently high levels of individual economic hardship amid ever-increasing levels of societal wealth. In The Poverty Paradox, Washington University sociologist Mark Rank tries to understand what is going on.

As I’m increasingly convinced that the only books (and social media, news, and everything) that resonate with any of us are information and analysis that aligns with what we already believe, I’m doubtful that The Poverty Paradox will change many minds.
If you already believe that the opportunity structure is the determining driver of economic success, and you want to equip yourself with an analytical framework and detailed policy recommendations found in The Poverty Paradox.
One possibility to evolve some ideas, if not to change anyone’s mind, is to indulge in some lateral thinking. What if we applied the structural vulnerability framework that Rank introduces in The Poverty Paradox to universities?

Here, the unit of analysis shifts from individuals to colleges—people to organizations.
In the U.S., about one in eight people live in households below the poverty line. I don’t know the actual number—and I’m not sure that anyone does—but a ballpark estimate that one in eight institutions of higher education is in a financially precarious position seems reasonable.
A 2020 analysis by the Hechinger Report of 2,662 schools found that 500 (19 percent) were financially vulnerable.
To explain persistently high poverty rates, Rank compares individual economic well-being to a game of musical chairs. Imagine eight people circling seven chairs. When the music stops, one person will be left standing.
Are at-risk colleges playing a similar game of musical chairs? Is it possible that whatever actions are taken at every tuition-dependent institution, a significant portion of colleges will still be at risk of downsizing, merger or closure?
In other words, are the struggles of many colleges more the result of the environment in which they operate (demographic cliff, diminished public funding, a hollowed-out middle class), or are their challenges related to suboptimal choices made by institutional leadership?
When explaining poverty, as Rank details in The Poverty Paradox, an individual might do everything right and still end up poor. A full-time worker may lose a job. A family member might get sick. The rent could be raised and no affordable housing could be available. There might be no childcare that is accessible. The jobs available might pay too little to raise a family out of poverty.
Some colleges may do everything right but find themselves as economically vulnerable as the lowest-income Americans. These colleges might focus their programs and curriculum on the needs of their students. They might do everything possible to create courses and degrees that are financially accessible, flexible and high quality. The faculty and staff at these institutions may be fully dedicated to supporting their students and willing to work long hours for little compensation in support of that mission.
And yet, that same college—the one that made all the right choices—may have to close majors, lay off faculty and staff, and, in extreme cases, cease operations.
Where Rank is persuasive in The Poverty Paradox is that poor people are among the most scrappy and resilient of all populations. They must be, as navigating punitive public assistance programs and maintaining low-paying jobs is psychologically and physically demanding.
The people working at struggling colleges are every bit as smart, experienced, driven, creative, entrepreneurial and dedicated as those working at privileged institutions. Large numbers of colleges are struggling not due to their leadership, faculty and staff choices but to the economic, demographic and political structures they must navigate.
By not investing adequate public dollars in our students or institutions, we are making a choice about how the future of higher education will look. The great strength of our postsecondary system, the diversity of colleges and universities, and their ties to the communities in which they are embedded will be diminished due to our choices.
Taking a structural vulnerability approach to understanding precarious colleges does not mean that schools are powerless. Every tuition-dependent institution must figure out how to navigate an environment of demographic headwinds, state-level disinvestment and increasing costs and competition.
What applying ideas in The Poverty Paradox to higher education allows us to do is look first to broader forces and constraints that universities face in making sense of why so many institutions are struggling. We might think that in the absence of increased public investment, whatever bold, creative and entrepreneurial actions individual universities pursue, many will still find themselves financially vulnerable.

Some schools may try to protect themselves from economic shortfalls by laying off faculty and staff and closing majors, degrees and departments. These actions may seem necessary to university leaders, but they only impoverish the higher education ecosystem.
Absent the political will to invest in students and institutions, our system will become more unequal and less resilient. Students will have fewer options. The communities that depend on their local colleges as employers and creators of tomorrow’s workers and citizens will struggle.
The paradox of American higher education is the parallel stories of astounding wealth for a few institutions and ever-increasing financial precarity for a growing number of schools.
Might applying a structural vulnerability framework to universities persuade anyone to advocate for public investments in students and nonprofit schools?
What sort of lateral thinking helps you make sense of the current state and future of higher education?
What are you reading?

The paradox of poverty in the U.S. is persistently high levels of individual economic hardship amid ever-increasing levels of societal wealth. In The Poverty Paradox, Washington University sociologist Mark Rank tries to understand what is going on.
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If you are a reader who:
A. Believes that the reason that people are poor is most a result of their individual choices …
B. Are willing to be persuaded that the poverty story is more complex and that there are perhaps structural reasons outside of individual decisions that explain poverty …
then you should definitely read The Poverty Paradox.

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