- •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:
The Internet Watch Foundation (iwf)
The IWF was established in 1996 by the internet industry to provide the UK internet Hotline for the public and IT professionals to report criminal online content in a secure and confidential way. The Hotline service can be used anonymously to report content within the foundation’s remit. It works in partnership with the online industry, law enforcement, government, and international partners to minimise the availability of this content, specifically:
child sexual abuse images hosted anywhere in the world
criminally obscene adult content hosted in the UK
incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK
non-photographic child sexual abuse images hosted in the UK.
IWF is an independent self-regulatory body, funded by the EU and the wider online industry. The foundation helps internet service providers and hosting companies to combat the abuse of their networks through corporation’s ‘notice and takedown’ service which alerts them to content so they can remove it from their networks and IWF provides unique data to law enforcement partners in the UK and abroad to assist investigations into the distributors. As a result of this approach the content foundation deals with has been virtually eradicated from UK networks.
Worksheet “The Queen”
While watching
1 The first talk with prime-minister over telephone.
Answer the following questions:
1. Why did they talk about headlines? Do you remember any?
2 How did Blair describe the mood in the street?
3. What did he recommend to do?
4. What was the Queen’s answer?
5. How did the Queen’s secretary explain the queen’s reaction to “critical situation”?
6 Did Blair promise to improve the situation?
2 Fill in the gaps using words and phrases from the box.
over-eager editors; keeping temperature; delicate; to dance to their tune; the flag half mast; the mood; grief; the earliest opportunity; stirred-up; reject; comfort; sober, private mourning; |
1 I believe a few _____ ______ are doing their best to sell newspapers.
2 It would be a mistake to ______ __ ____ ____.
3 But my advisors have been ______ _____ among people on the streets. The ____ is quite _____.
4 I would suggest flying ___ ___ ___ ____ above Buckingham Palace and coming to London at ____ ______ _____.
5 It would be a great ______ to your people and would help them with their _____.
6 It’s my believe that they will any moment _____ this “mood” which is being ______ __ by the press, in of a period of restrained grief and _____ ,______ _____.
Watch and check
While watching
3 The telephone talk in the kitchen and how it resulted.
Give four more things the Queen should do immediately to change critical situation in London.
1. The poll shows that 70% of people, one in four are in favour of abolishing monarchy.
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