1. Social Care and Community Work
English for Social Work - Revision

2. Answer the following questions:
What does the social work profession promote?
What are objectives of social work?
Which are basic values of social work?

3. Complete the following:
Social work intervenes at points where people interact with their ________. It adresses the barriers and _________ that exist in society. The profession strives to liberate ___________ people and promote social _________________.

4. Translate the sentence below:
Social justice includes equal treatment and protection under the law and fair distribution of resources to meet basic human needs.

5. Traslate into English:
ublažiti siromaštvo
osnažiti i osloboditi potlačene ljude
zadovoljiti ljudske potrebe
socijalni rad u zajednici
razviti ljudski potencijal
sustav socijalne skrbi
zastupanje prava diskriminiranih skupina
pružatelji socijalnih usluga

6. Answer the following questions:
What is a disability?
Which are main types (categories) of diability?
Which laws regulate the position of disabled persons in Great Britain?

7. Match the term with its definition:
impairment
a problem experienced by an individual in involvement in life situations
activity limitation
a problem in body function or structure
participation restriction
a difficulty encountered by an individual in executing a task or action

8. Complete the following:
As part of the reforms in Great Britain, there has been a trend towards supporting disabled people to live _____________, providing them with _________ and ______________ services.

9. Translate the following:
The Equality Act 2010 legally protects people from discrimination in the workplace and in wider society. It replaced previous anti-discrimination laws with a single Act, making the law easier to understand and strengthening protection in some situations. It sets out the different ways in which it is unlawful to treat someone.

10. Answer the following questions:
Which problems are associated with the ageing of the population of Europe?
What kind of a term is ‘old age’?
Which problems are older people faced with apart from health problems?

11. Complete the following:
Ageism is ____________ or ___________ treatment based on a person’s age. It can impact on someone’s confidence, job prospects, financial situation and quality of _________. It can also include the way that older people are represented in the media, which can have a wider impact on the public’s __________.

12. Match the term with its synonym:
jeopardy
discredit
pejorative
danger
stigmatize
prejudice
bias
derogatory

13. Translate the paragraph below:
‘Being old’ is also described as a ‘jeopardy’, meaning that it puts the older person in danger of being discriminated against. When the older person is also a black woman, she may be described as having to cope with ‘triple jeopardy’ – not only ageism, but sexism and racism.

14. Answer the following questions:
When was the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child agreed on?
How many states have ratified it to date?
How is a child defined by the UNCRC?
Which are basic rights of all children?

15. Complete the following:
Every child has the following basic rights: the right to __________, to develop to the ________, to protection from harmful ____________, abuse and ___________ and to participate fully in __________, ___________ and ___________ life. Every child has rights irrespective of the child’s race, colour, language, ________ or other opinion, _________ or ________ origin, disability or other status.

16. Match the term with its synonym:
kin
protect
safeguard
penury
poverty
raising
upbringing
relatives
accommodation
disadvantage
deprivation
housing

17. Translate the paragraph below:
The Convention has 54 articles that cover all aspects of a child’s life and set out the civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights that all children everywhere are entitled to. It also explains how adults and governments must work together to make sure all children can enjoy all their rights. Every child has rights, whatever their ethnicity, gender, religion, language, abilities or any other status.

18. Thank you!