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1. Read the first part of the interview up to the question: What is the worst thing that happened live on air? Decide if these are true (t) or false (f)

1. The first show he presented was Sky Travel.

2. He decided to give up medicine and make it as a TV presenter.

3. He has no attemption to change NHS radically

4. He plans to return to full time medicine

5. He writes books on medical issues

6. He got in TV accidentally

2. А) Read the rest of the interview. Choose the adjectives from the text describing the job of a tv Presenter in two columns

Positive Negative

e g: rewarding unstable

b) Add the adjectives of your own that can be attributed to this kind of job.

3. A) Complete the gaps with the words from the text of the interview. The first letters of the missing words are given.

a) She … has damaged his c______ as a leader.

b) Your sister looks very f______ in that dress.

c) She used to steal from shops for a____ k____.

d) He had swallowed so much sea water he wanted to v_____.

e) They left the cinema before the c____ c_____.

f) The kitchen was g ______ and new units were installed.

b) Substitute the underlined words with a word or a phrase from the text of the interview.

1. My friends keep asking me to get a cell phone.

2. Our aim is to reduce the number of people hunt or killed in road accidents.

3. I know you don’t like her; but please attempt to be polite.

4. He is being trained to speak clearly and … so that he can be heard in a big room.

5. She is making clips of her video for T.V.

6. Our situation is completely different.

AFTER READING

1. A) Study how adjective and adverb enormous / enormously collocate with nouns, verbs and adjectives

Collocations: enormous bunch of flowers

an enormous amount of money

effort

interest / pressure

responsibility

enormously rich /influential

The project benefited enormously from Jack’s knowledge.

I enjoyed the evening enormously.

I’m enormously grateful for your help.

b Make up sentences of your own with these collocations.

2. Discuss the following questions in small groups.

  • What impression do you have from this interview? Did you notice the names of the interviewees?

  • Did they manage to challenge David Bull’s authority?

  • Is it possible to make a career of a TV presenter accidentally?

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