- •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:
"Middle-market" tabloid newspapers
Title |
Published |
Format |
Est. |
Owner |
Political Orientation |
Political Party Support in 2010 General Election |
Daily Mail |
Daily |
Tabloid (Broadsheet until 1971) |
1896 |
Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail and General Trust plc |
Right-wing |
Conservative Party |
Daily Express |
Daily |
Compact (Broadsheet until 1977) |
1900 |
Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell |
Right-wing and eurosceptic |
Conservative Party, more recently UKIP |
Sunday Express |
Sunday |
Compact (Broadsheet until 1977) |
1918 |
Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell |
Right-wing |
|
The Mail on Sunday |
Sunday |
Tabloid |
1982 |
Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail and General Trust plc |
Right-wing |
Conservative Party |
Tabloid newspapers
Title |
Published |
Format |
Est. |
Owner |
Political Orientation |
Political Party Support in 2010 General Election |
The Sun |
Daily |
Tabloid |
1964 |
News Corporation |
Right-wing populist |
Conservative Party |
The Sun on Sunday |
Sunday |
Tabloid |
2012 |
News International |
|
|
The Daily Mirror |
Daily |
Tabloid |
1903 |
Trinity Mirror |
Social-democratic, populist |
Labour Party |
Sunday Mirror |
Sunday |
Tabloid |
1915 |
Trinity Mirror |
|
Labour Party |
Daily Star |
Daily |
Tabloid |
1978 |
Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell |
Right-wing populist |
|
The Morning Star |
Daily |
Tabloid |
1930 |
People's Press Printing Society, an independent readers' co-operative |
Follows Britain's Road to Socialism (the programme of the Communist Party of Britain) |
Labour Party |
The People |
Sunday |
Tabloid |
1881 |
Trinity Mirror |
|
|
The Sunday Sport |
Sunday |
Tabloid |
1986 |
|
Sensationalist yellow journalism |
|
Daily Star Sunday |
Sunday |
Tabloid |
2002 |
Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell |
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