SOCIAL WORK

UNIT 1

SOCIAL WORK

Exercise 1. Listen and repeat the words. Practice correct and quick reading. Match the phonemic transcription with the proper word in the Vocabulary below this exercise.

|əˈbjuːs|, |əˈdʒʌs(t)m(ə)nt|, |əˈsɛsmənt|, |dɪˈpɛnd(ə)nt|, |ɪmˈpermənt|, |səˈpɔːt|, |dʒəˌrɒntəˈlɒdʒɪkəl|, |prɪˈvɛntɪv|, |ˌsʌɪkɪˈatrɪk|, |ˈalkəhɒl|, |pəˈliːs|, |ˈfak(ə)lti|, |dɪˈstrɛs|, |ˈrʊər(ə)l|, |ˈsəʊʃ(ə)l|.

Exercise 2. Translate the following sentences into Russian paying attention to your active vocabulary.

1. Social workers have excluded abuse as a reason for the child's disappearance.

2. А social worker is particularly effective in developing and using the team approach and in bringing about coordination of services and activities.

3. Language may be conceived of as a process which arises from social interaction.

4. Traditional social work emphasizes three basic processes: casework, group work, and community organization.

5. Social work knowledge has been largely borrowed from the social sciences, particularly psychology and sociology, though anthropology, political science, economics, and history as well as the natural sciences of biology and physiology contribute as well.

6. Baccalaureate Degree in Social Work prepares students for general social work practice.

7. Social workers must simultaneously provide the services needed by clients and adhere to the workload management requirements of the employing social agency.

8. Speaking about different types of the family sociologists distinguish monogamy and polygamy.

9. It is characterized by continuous or periodic: impaired control over drinking, preoccupation with the drug alcohol, use of alcohol despite adverse consequences, and distortions in thinking, most notable denial.

10. Sociologists distinguish formal and informal norms of behaviour in any culture.

Exercise 3. Substitute the underlined words / word combinations for the synonyms from the vocabulary. Translate them into Russian.

1. Public work may be defined as аn art, а science, а profession that helps people to solve реrsonal, group (especially family), and community problems and to attain satisfying реrsonal, group, and community relationships through social work practice.

2. Regular visits from a case worker can be of immense value to old people living alone.