Activities based on Tucker Carlson interview with Pavel Durov
методическая разработка по английскому языку (11 класс)

Watch the interview and do the following exercises.

https://tuckercarlson.com/the-tucker-carlson-interview-pavel-durov

Exercises based on the interview of Tucker Carlson with Pavel Durov.

№1 Discuss the following questions in groups. 

1. What did you know about Pavel Durov before watching the interview?
2. What's Pavel Durov's background? What's so remarkable about the time spent in Italy?
3. What important idea did he realize while studying in Italy?
4. What did he enjoy most back in Russia?
5. What were Pavel and his brother passionate about?
6. What gave them an advantage over other families that time?
7. Why does he not like comparing VK with Facebook?
8. What was he responsible for in the company?
9. What issues did he have to face?
10. What does Pavel value most of all?
11. What made rim resign as VK CEO
12. What surprised Carlson Tucker about Telegram?
13. What's Pavel's mission?
14. What idea regarding messengers did he come up with before leaving Russia?
15. Where did he when he left Russia? How come he settled down in Dubai?
16. What are the advantages of working and living there?
17. Has Telegram come under pressure from other governments? How do they respond to such requests?
18. Is it only the government that can pose a threat to Telegram?
19. What are Telegram channels for?
20. Who owns Telegram?
21. What's Pavel's main priority?
22. Does HR department hire employees in the company?
23. Why can't other companies do the same?
24. What's it like to be prudent according to Pavel's ideas?
25. but I think it makes sense to stay prudent and not being too accessible, not traveling to weird places.
26. What does he have little faith in?
27. Is he optimistic about preserving privacy in future? Why?

№2 Guess the words by their initial letters.

1. Mary was a better rider than either of them and she ex............... (excelled) at outdoor sports

2. This disease is surprisingly difficult to catch as most people have a natural re...........  (resistance) to it.

3. Of course, I'm just an il................ (illiterate) law student, so I'm probably not best qualified to give you an opinion.

4. If your bag is sn............. (snatched), let it go.

5. It's one of those movies in which you're forced to r......... (root) for the villain.

6. I'm a very co......... (competitive) person and I was determined not to be beaten.

7. He didn't i............ (integrate) successfully into the Italian way of life.

8.  We had managed to pe........... (persuade) them that it was worth working with us.

9. The book offers nothing in t........... (terms) of a satisfactory conclusion

№3 Fill in the gaps with the words given in the box. Change the form of the verb if necessary.

1. Rebecca always _______________________ in languages at school.

2. To succeed in the highly _____________________environment, we have to innovate control system education.

3. The book was heavily __________________ when first published.

4. Having a dog is a big _________________________ .

5. I've tried every diet going - ___________, I've tried it.

6. A surprising percentage of the population is ____________________________.

7. Government troops offered no ______________________to the rebels.

8. He __________________ the photos out of my hand before I had a chance to look at them.

9. Children are often very good at_________________________________into a new culture.

10. He __________________ the photos out of my hand before I had a chance to look at them.

11. Children are often very good at_________________________________into a new culture.

12. He is trying to ___________________________ local and foreign businesses to invest in the project.

13. He managed to _________ £20 out of them

14. The pirates had crossed a __________________________, and there would be no giving in to their demands.

15. Who do you ____________________in the Super Bowl?

16. She __________________________ her mother's ___________________, starting her own business.

17. It seems increasingly unlikely that the two sides will find any ___________________________.

18.________________________________, this is undoubtedly the better product.