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What do Mr Abbasov, Mr Green and Mrs Hope say about the advantages and disadvantages of the welfare state?

Model: Rufat says that only those people who really need benefits should get them. Take a child benefit, for example. It is available to everybody in a welfare state, though many middle-class people do not actually need financial help.

3. | PW. Answer the questions and express your points of view generalizing/ evaluating them.

Questions | Answers
What is one of the most important disadvantages of the welfare state according to Mr Abbasov? |
What does Mr Abbasov suggest? |
Do all the people who are entitled to benefits receive them? |
Why is Mr Green against the welfare state? |
What are the main disadvantages of this system? |
Where should people get help from according to Mr Green? |
Why is Mrs Hope for the welfare state? |
Who does the welfare state help? |
What benefits is Mrs Hope for exactly? |
What would happen in case people didn’t get their benefits? |

4. PW. Complete the sentences with your own ideas and explain.
1. Some people don’t support the idea of a welfare state____.
2. In the welfare state most benefits are available to everybody
3. Without financial help some people can’t live____.
4. Some people don’t know what they are entitled to receive__
5. Some people refuse to accept help____.
5.IW. Write a paragraph on social assistance in Azerbaijan.