The bbc

Television (... channels)

Radio

Local radio

World Service

The iba

b Write out from the text types of radio and television programmes, and add a few more, broadcast in Britain:

Radio and TV programmes	TV programmes	Radio Programmes
News Pop music ________________________	Soap operas ________________________	________________________

с Draw a similar table of programmes broadcast in Russia.

Exercise 8a. Translate into English paying attention to the word other.

another other the other

the other

(=the remaining)

другой другие остальные

1. Переключите, пожалуйста, на другой телевизионный канал.

2. Я хотела бы посмотреть любую другую передачу на канале "Культура".

3. Уже очень поздно и работает только ночной канал, а остальные завершили свои передачи.

4. У нас два телевизора: один — в комнате, другой — на кухне.

5. Вчера я успел посмотреть вечерний выпуск новостей на одном канале и спортивную программу на другом.

b Underline the words written in the way Americans prefer:

to licence	— to license	neighbour	— neighbor
to honour	— to honor	center	— centre
behaviour	— behavior	traveler	— traveller

Exercise 9. Make a few sentences of your own using the following:

1. to broadcast news/a speech/a concert

2. a broacast of a football match/ world tennis championship

3. a broadcasting station

4. a radio/television network

5. a network of channels/ canals/railways

6. an intelligence/spy network

7. a world communications network

Extend your vocabulary

Get a life - turn off your tv set

(an item from The Editor magazine)

White Dot is an anti-television campaign group which rages against the tyranny of the ‘plastic box’.

It is called television! And all you have to do is turn it off! It’s that simple. You are going to be amazed at what happens next. Give up your TV and you are doubling your free time! It’s a whole extra 10 years of your life to be the person you tell everybody you are.

All those things that television promised you: excitement, sex, friendship, understanding — it lied. A plastic box can’t give you any of those. It’s a bit like when you are in love with some idiot who treated you badly. How did you put up with that?

Someday, people will look back on television as the dangerous experiment on human guinea pigs that it really is. Your descendants won’t have anything to do with it. Instead of saying ‘How could I live without it?’, they will say ‘My God! We almost didn’t live through it!’ They’ll be shocked at what you did with your time - disgusted.

White Dot is just trying to hasten that day. Real life is a craze that’s going to sweep the nation....

The average time people spend watching TV is four hours a day - one day a week, doing nothing but sitting and staring. Some people devote that much time to God. What are you worshipping? Add it up. If you were on your death-bed and someone could give you back those missing 10 years to be with people you loved, would you take up their offer? Or would you say, ‘No thanks, I’m glad I spent that time watching TV.’

To help you decide, use the handy chart below. Assuming that you live to be 80 (most people don’t), it can tell you how long you have left and how much of that time you’ll spend watching television. Why not cut it out and tape it to your remote control? And instead of watching TV, why not spend your free time with harmless fun or real life entertainment or something else?

This 'handy chart' tells you how many of your remaining years will be spent glued to the box:
Your age	0	10	20	30	40	50	60	70
Years left	80	70	60	50	40	30	20	10
TV years	18.3	11.7	10.0	8.3	6.3	5.0	3.3	1.7

Do you know these words?

to be amazed at smb/smth восхищаться кем/чем-либо; amazement восхищение

it’s a bit like smth это немного похоже на что-либо

to put up with smth мириться с чем-либо

dangerous [´deinэərəs] опасный; a dangezous journey опасное путешествие

guinea pig морская свинка, «подопытный кролик»

instead of smb/smth вместо кого/чего-либо; instead of doing smth вместо того, чтобы делать что-либо

to be disgusted возмущаться, чувствовать отвращение

craze мания, повальное увлечение; crazy сумасшедший, фанатично увлеченный

to sweep (swept, swept) уничтожать; мести, подметать; to sweep a room подметать пол в комнате

average [´ævəridэ] средний, среднеарифметический

to stare at smb/smth пристально смотреть на кого/что-либо

to devote smth to smb/smth посвящать что-либо кому/чему-либо

to worship [´wo:∫ip] поклоняться, боготворить

to take up an offer принять предложение; to take up photography заняться фотографией handy удобный; близкий

chart диаграмма, схема, чертеж, таблица

to cut out (cut, cut) вырезать

to be glued to smth приклеиться к чему-либо; to have one's eyes glued to не отрывать взгляд от; glue клей

Exercise 10а. Match and translate the synonyms:

to get	to accept
to turn off	to love
to rage	to occur
to happen	to forget
to give up	to look
to stare	to have
to worship	to switch off
to take up	to storm

b Write down the antonyms of the following words:

to turn off __________________________	harmful ____________________________
to give up __________________________	real _______________________________
to put up with _______________________	simple _____________________________
to have nothing to do with _____________	crazy ______________________________
to cut out __________________________	right _______________________________

Exercise 11a. Write a few short sentences using the following words:

to be disgusted ______________________	average ___________________________
to be shocked _______________________	remote ____________________________
to be displeased _____________________	entertaining ________________________

b Insert the correct prepositions:

to devote too much time ... smth	to stare ... smb or smth
to spend too much time sitting ... a TV box	to be shocked ... smth
	to be amazed … what happened
to experiment ... smth	to put up ... smth

Exercise 12. Write down the words which are pronounced in the following way:

[´tirəni] ______________________	[tə´d٨bl] _______________________
[ik´saitmənt] __________________	[tə´lai] _________________________
[´deindэərəs] __________________	[tə´lei] _________________________
[ə´meizd] _____________________	[tə´stεə] ________________________

b Mark (with a tick) the word combinations used figuratively and translate them into Russian:

to sweep away slavery

to sweep a room to sweep the nation

to sweep a constituency to sweep a chimney

to sweep one’s audience with oneself

to sweep

с Translate into English:

1. Вы не забыли выключить телевизор?

2. Многие люди считают, что от телевизора можно отказаться, а мне такая идея никогда не приходила на ум.

3. В этой таблице приведены очень интересные цифры. Например, средний возраст жизни — 80 лет. А если мне уже 20 лет, то я проведу у телевизора 10 лет, а если 30 лет, то — 8,3 года.

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