- •Contents
- •The press
- •1 Work in pairs and answer the questions below:
- •Vocabulary
- •2. The following words all appear in the text. Match each one with its correct definition on the right.
- •3. Read the text up to the end of page 9 and answer these questions:
- •2. Study the words and phrases in the table and learn them to use in further activities.
- •1. Read the text ‘The press’ up to the end and consider this list of the characteristics of British newspapers:
- •3. Give the English equivalents for the following words and expressions:
- •4 Translate the following sentences employing the active vocabulary:
- •5 Read the following text and use the bald word in each line to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line Media career opportunities
- •6 Сomplete these sentences to make a summary of the text.
- •2 The following words all appear in the text. Match each one with its correct definition on the right.
- •1 Read the text and answer the questions
- •2 Give English equivalents for the following words and expressions:
- •3 Fill in the gaps with the words and phrases from the box.
- •Worldwide television (1 part)
- •1 Read the text and find out information about
- •3 Describe the activities of itv regarding its
- •4 Explain the difference between the following notions. Mind the words and expressions in bold.
- •5 Complete the sentences with the verbs and phrases from the text. Mind prepositions where necessary.
- •6 Give English equivalents for the following:
- •1 The text below illustrates fierce debates about radical changes in tv sector in early 90. Translate the text:
- •(2 Part)
- •1 Read the text and answer the questions below.
- •2 Сomplete the sentences with the information from the text.
- •3 Read the text and examine the chart. Answer the questions below. Who watches what?
- •Government and the media
- •1 The following words all appear in the text. Match each one with its correct definition on the right.
- •1 Read the text and decide if the statements below t (true) or f (false).
- •Language notes
- •2. Explain the difference between the following.
- •3. Use the context to guess the meaning of the following words and phrases.
- •4 Fill in the gaps with the correct verb forms and phrases from the box
- •5 Complete the chart with the noun forms
- •4. Read the text and answer the questions below. The question of secrecy
- •Privacy and self-regulation of the press
- •2 Read the text and check your ideas
- •Language notes
- •1 Find words or phrases in the text that mean the following
- •2 Complete the chart with the missing verbs, nouns and adjectives
- •3 Make up sentences of your own with the words from the chart.
- •4 Fill in the gaps with the correct verbs, appropriate words or phrases from the box.
- •5 Give English equivalents for the following words and expressions:
- •1 Listen to the news and read the article below considering the reporting of Madeleine McCann’s abduction in the British press.
- •Language notes
- •2 A) Comment on the article and discuss how free should the press be.
- •Internet in uk.
- •1 Discuss the following questions in pairs
- •2 In pairs, decide if the following are examples connected with the Internet
- •1 Read the text ‘The Internet in uk” and decide if the following statements true or false.
- •Information, not entertainment.
- •It has taken the internet little more than a decade to become the biggest advertising sector in the uk.
- •Language notes
- •2 Give the English equivalents for the following words and expressions:
- •3 Translate the following sentences using the active vocabulary:
- •4 Complete the sentences with the words and phrases from the box:
- •Supplement List of newspapers in the United Kingdom
- •Broadsheet and former broadsheet newspapers
- •"Middle-market" tabloid newspapers
- •Tabloid newspapers
- •Is the bbc as good as it could be?
- •Internet in Britain as a popular media-source.
- •What is Internet Radio?
- •The bbc online
- •The Internet Watch Foundation (iwf)
- •1 The first talk with prime-minister over telephone.
- •2 Fill in the gaps using words and phrases from the box.
- •3 The telephone talk in the kitchen and how it resulted.
- •4. The talk between Alastair Campbell and Tony Blair about the Queen’s speech.
- •Vocabulary notes:
1 Listen to the news and read the article below considering the reporting of Madeleine McCann’s abduction in the British press.
Press regulation recommendations: let the law take its course
As well as scathing criticism of the reporting of Madeleine McCann's abduction, the MP committee says PCC should have the power to fine newspapers
The Guardian, Wednesday 24 February 2010
The case of Madeleine McCann
The report is scathing, saying that newspapers were guilty of "an inexcusable lowering of press standards" in reporting the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in 2007.
The intense interest in the case, the efforts of the McCann family to publicise their campaign and the lack of official information from the Portuguese police provided no justification for "inaccurate" and "defamatory" reporting, MPs on the cross-party committee said.
Reporters in Praia da Luz, where Madeleine went missing just before her fourth birthday, were competing to satisfy a "very unusual" public demand for information, although it was not possible to say whether inaccurate articles were written as a result of pressure from editors. "It is, however, clear that the press acted as a pack, ceaselessly hunting out fresh angles where new information was scarce," the report said.
"Portugal was also a foreign jurisdiction, where contempt of court laws were unclear, and no consideration was given to how reporting might prejudice any future trial. It is our belief that competitive and commercial factors contributed to abysmal standards in the gathering and publishing of news about the McCann case."
Newspaper groups eventually paid out more than £1.5m in damages over their reporting of the case: Express Newspapers paid the McCanns a reported £550,000 and another £375,000 to the so-called "Tapas Seven" group of friends who dined with the McCanns on the night Madeleine disappeared, while the expatriate property consultant Robert Murat received £600,000 from four newspaper groups – Express Newspapers, Associated Newspapers, News International and Mirror Group Newspapers.
The payment was made after the missing girl’s parents expressed their outrage at the story, which Kate McCann said made her feel “mentally raped.”
The MPs criticised newspapers for suggesting in evidence to the committee that the McCann story was so unusual that there were no grounds for changing their procedures or the Press Complaints Commission’s code of conduct.
Language notes
‘tapas seven’ – tapas – small dishes of food eaten as a part of the first course of Spanish food. The group of seven people had been dining with Madeleine’s parents the night the girl disappeared
ACTIVE VOCABULARY
abduct/ сhild abduction |
похищать, похищение ребенка |
scathing report |
жесткий, злой репортаж |
defamatory reporting |
бесчестное, клеветническое освещение |
contempt of court laws |
неуважение к судебным законам |
abysmal standards |
крайние меры |
hunting out fresh angles |
выискивать новые точки зрения |
prejudice (v) |
наносить ущерб, причинять вред |