- •Intermediate lever
- •14. Media of communication — сми
- •1. Consult a dictionary and practice the pronunciation of the following words. Mark the main stressed syllables in each of these words.
- •2. Analyze the structure of the following words.
- •3. Complete each sentence with the correct form of the underlined word.
- •4. Word building. Find the missing word forms where possible:
- •5. Highlight the adjectives from the text and give their comparative and superlative degrees.
- •12. Complete the sentences with the phrases and word combinations.
- •13. Work in pairs. Take it in turns to interview each other with the above phrases and word combinations.
- •14. Work in groups. Take it in turns to make questions using the prompts below.
- •15. Match these phrases with their definitions.
- •16. Translate the following sentences into English using the phrases and word combinations.
- •17. A. Match the words on the left with the words on the right.
- •18. Are these statements true or false? Correct the false ones.
- •19. Answer the following questions:
- •20. Work in pairs. Discuss the questions No. 1, 5, 6, 7
- •21. Give the best possible translation of the title and retell the text close to the original.
- •1. Study the essential vocabulary and translate the illustrative examples into Russian.
- •2. Fill in each gap with items from the box. Some words can be repeated.
- •4. Complete the sentences with the essential vocabulary from the box.
- •5. Translate the following sentences from Russian into English.
- •6. Choose the right article.
- •7. Fill in the prepositions where necessary:
- •8. Do a library research and write a 200-word essay on your favourite work of literature, proving the idea that books can change lives by making people think.
- •1. Consult a dictionary and practise the pronunciation of the following words. Mark the main stressed syllables in each of these words.
- •3. Complete each sentence with the correct form of the underlined word.
- •4. Choose the right suffix or prefix for each word and translate the words into Russian. Prefixes can be used to alter their meaning. What are the differences in meaning?
- •5. Highlight adjectives in the text and give their comparative and superlative degrees.
- •10. Complete the sentences with the speech patterns.
- •11. Translate into English the sentences with the speech patterns.
- •12. Work in pairs. Practice some dialogues.
- •13. Complete the sentences with the word combinations.
- •14. Translate the following sentences into English using the word combinations and phrases.
- •15. Imagine that the publishers from a provincial town ask you to put them wise how to start a new business. Practice the dialogue and use the following word combinations.
- •16. Are these statements true or false? Correct the false ones.
- •17. Complete the sentences with the items from the box.
- •18. Match the words on the left with the words on the right.
- •19. Answer the following questions.
- •20. Retell the text close to the original.
- •2. Fill in each gap with items from the box.
- •3. Complete the sentences with the essential vocabulary from the box.
- •4. Word-sets. Underline the odd word in each set.
- •5. Translate the sentences into English.
- •6. Write a 200-word essay on one of the given topics.
- •7. Choose the right article: a/the
- •8. Choose the right prepositions from the box.
- •1. Consult a dictionary and practise the pronunciation of the following words. Mark the main stressed syllable in each of these words.
- •11. Work in pairs. Practice dialogues.
- •12. Complete the sentences with the phrases and combinations from the text.
- •13. Work in pairs. Take it in turns to interview each other using the word combinations.
- •14. Describe your favourite advertisement using the following phrases and word combinations.
- •15. Translate the following sentences into English using the word combinations and phrases.
- •16. Are these statements true or false? Correct the false ones.
- •17. Match these phrases with their definitions.
- •18. A. Match the words on the left with the words on the right.
- •19. Answer the following questions.
- •20. Retell the text close to the original.
- •1. Study the essential vocabulary and translate the illustrative examples into Russian.
- •2. Fill in the gaps with the words and word combinations of the essential vocabulary.
- •3. A. Fill the gaps in the sentences with suitable words from the box.
- •5. Choose the right article: a/the
- •6. Choose the right preposition from the box
- •7. Synonyms.
- •8. Antonyms.
- •9. Translate the sentences into English.
- •10. Do a library research and write a 200-word essay on one of the given topics.
- •It was the bad weather that made it possible for the boy to stay home.
- •8. To take a pride in smth
- •1. Anxious adj
- •1. Consult a dictionary and practise the pronunciation of the following words. Mark the main stressed syllables in each of these words.
- •8. Give one example to each speech pattern.
- •9. Work in pairs. Practice dialogues using the speech patterns.
- •10. Translate into English the sentences with the speech patterns.
- •13. Practice to write an article in the students newspaper using the following word combinations.
- •14. Translate the following sentences into English using the word combinations and phrases.
- •15. Are these statements true or false? Correct the false ones.
- •16. A. Match the words on the left with the words on the right.
- •17. Answer the following questions.
- •18. Imagine that you are invited to speak on the television. What would you like to say about your future profession?
- •1. Study the essential vocabulary and translate the illustrative examples into Russian.
- •3. Complete the sentences with the essential vocabulary words from the box. Mind that some of them are repeated more than once.
- •4. Translate the sentences from Russian into English.
- •5. Fill in each gap with prepositions.
- •6. Choos the right articles , a/the,0
- •1. Consult a dictionary and practice the pronunciation of the following words. Mark the main stressed syllables in each of these words.
- •3. Complete each sentence with the correct form of the underlined word.
- •4. Word building. Find the missing word forms where possible:
- •5. Use the right suffix or prefix with each word and translate the words into Russian. Prefixes can be used with words to alter their meaning. What are the differences in the meaning?
- •6. Highlight the adjectives from the text and give their comparative and superlative degrees.
- •7. Highlight the irregular verbs from the text, give their four forms and translate them into Russian
- •8. A. Complete the sentences with the speech patterns.
- •9. Work in pairs. You are going to talk about marketing
- •10. Translate into English the sentences containing the speech patterns.
- •11. Work in pairs. Practice the dialogue using the speech patterns.
- •12. Complete the sentences with the phrases and word combinations.
- •13. Work in pairs. Take it in turns to interview each other using the following phrases and word combinations.
- •14. Match the phrases with their definitions.
- •Is.Translate the following sentences into English using the phrases and word combinations.
- •16. Match the words on the left with the words on the right.
- •19. Give the best possible translation of the title and retell the text close to the original.
- •1. Study the essential vocabulary and translate the illustrative examples into Russian.
- •2. Fill in the gaps with the vocabulary items.
- •3. Word sets: Marketing. Underline the odd word in each line.
- •4. Complete the sentences with the essential vocabulary.
- •5. Translate the sentences into English.
- •6. Complete the text with prepositions in the box. Some prepositions are used several times.
- •In, of, on, from, to, for
- •7. Fill in each gap with the articles, a/the, — the market economy
- •1. Thanksgiving day.
- •1. Consult a dictionary and practice the pronunciation of the following words. Mark the main stressed syllables in each of these words.
- •10. Translate the following sentences into English using the Speech patterns.
- •11. Complete the sentences containing the word combinations.
- •12. Match the expressions to their meanings.
- •13. Work in pairs. Compose short dialogues between Martin and the editor, using the following word combinations.
- •14. Translate the following sentences into English using the word combinations.
- •15. Decide whether the following statements true or false.
- •16. Compose a dialogue between Martin and Maria when he came back. Use the following expressions in the dialogue:
- •17. Explain what is meant by:
- •1. Study the essential vocabulary and translate the sentences into Russian.
- •2. Fill in the gaps with the most appropriate word combinations.
- •3. Translate the following sentences into English.
- •4. Fill in the gaps with prepositions in the box.
- •5. Chose the right article a/the where it is necessary.
- •2. Answer the following questions.
- •Vocabulary tasks a Word search
- •2 Definite article: the
- •3 No article
- •1 Countable nouns
- •2 Uncountable nouns
- •3 Countable or uncountable
- •4 Quantifiers
- •1 Comparative and superlative: adjectives
- •Irregular quantifiers
- •7 Intensifiers
- •8 Gradable/ungradable adjectives and adverbs
- •1 Present Simple
- •1 Past simple
- •1 Used to/would
- •2 Used to
- •I'm going to buy him a cd.
- •3 Present continuous
- •4 Present simple
- •2 Infinitives
- •2 Infinitive
- •I was happy to do it.
- •If you heat ice, it melts.
- •If only my dad didn't snore!
- •3 Wish/hope
- •1 Reporting questions
- •3 Indirect questions
- •4 Impersonal statements
- •1 Ability
- •2 Permission
- •4 Obligation
- •5 Lack of obligation
- •1 Possibility
- •2 Deductions
- •1 Defining clauses
- •1 So much/many, so little/few (that)
- •2 So/such (that)
- •3 Too/enough
- •1 Addition
- •2 Nouns from adjectives
- •3 Noun form verbs
- •4 Verb form adjectives
- •5 Making words negative
- •6 Compound nouns
- •2 Noun 4- verb -ing
- •7 Compound adjectives
- •1 Past participle (-ed)
5. Chose the right article a/the where it is necessary.
Brand.. Branding strives memorability. Brand summarize what
...... customer can expect from .... product: value, consistency,
permanence and reassurance. Some companies try to anticipate
public tastes and interests with......distinctive brand, others attempt
to join.....market area of .... successful brand with....." me too"
product. Many publishing companies confuse brand with company
name: .......only unifying factor they can see when every book is
different. Thus to.....publisher......new autumn list may constitute
.....brand.....bookseller, on.....other hand, will see the list not as
....whole, but as .... collection of individual titles; each author as.....
brand, or as.....basis for.....cross-publisher group.
CONVERSATION AND DISCUSSION OUT AND ABOUT
Terry Carter, the main character of the novel "Let's Meet on Platform 8", is a gifted editor who for some reason, was not involved in a production of a new programme for children. Read the text and get ready to analize the situation.
Despite the fact that the team had all the information on the Autocue, they continually make mistakes and repeatedly use the "F-word" as they don't have a proper command of the language.
No wonder that they ignore warnings from the British Broadcasting Standard Authority.
OUT AND ABOUT had kept Teri constantly busy for the last Two hours. It was a news-based programme, transmitted late afternoon just before they lost all their intended viewers to the BBC and the lure of Australian soaps.
Out and About-not exactly a 'totally crucial' title in her opinion-was produced with the emphasis very firmly on 'youff'. Most of the programme-over-enthusiastic reports from teenagers with obviously capped teeth and baseball caps on back to front-was pre-recorded on video tape, VTR, with live links provided in the studio by two odious brats in their early twenties pretending to be sixteen.
They were a total nightmare. Unreliable, unresponsive and unrepentant. Their idea of fun was to present the show sitting behind the desk with no trousers on and mooning to the crew while the VTR was being played. To their surprise, they were the only ones who found it amusing.
Despite the technological advantage of Autocue, they fluffed their lines constantly and the programme was on its third warning from the British Broadcasting Standards Authority about the repeated inadvertent use of the F-word.
The producer was a homosexual alcoholic with an ulcer and, for the latter complaint, Teri could lay the blame solely at the feet of these two individuals. He was called Richard Wellbeloved and was universally despised by everyone at City Television from the cleaning ladies up.
The main anchor man was an ex-art student with a ponytail and a suspicious habit of nipping to the toilet for lengthy periods during moments of stress. He insisted on being called " Jez". He was the main F-words offender, and similar F-words had filtered down from on high -\television's equivalent to God, the Head of Programming — to let him know that he was on probation. Teri suspected that it wasn't the first time Jez had been on probation. One more deviation from "Golly" or 'Wow!1 and he would be sacked. It couldn't happen soon enough as far as she was concerned.
The producer, unfortunately, relied not on the educational content or on the skilful presentation of a quality programme to attract its rapidly dwindling audience, but on the fact that mostkids watched because the whole thing was total chaos and you never knew when the next F-word might pop up.
The entire programme needed a complete revamp, a mix of maturity and street cred to stop the programme from careering off
the rails. Look at John Carven * — what harm had he ever done to Newsround? **Those were days — lying on her stomach in front of the television pretending to do her homework while John intoned seriously about the dire state of the world. What would he have to say about it now?
Back then, John was everybody's idea of a hero. Neat as a pin.clear cut, unsullied. All right, so the V-necked jumpers a la Val Doonican hadn't lent him the air of street credibility that might be deemed essential these days, but you knew where you were with John. No accidental F-words there.
In fact, what the programme really needed was Teri Carter at the helm. Her talents were wasted sitting in the dimly lit glass gallery that overlooked the studio, like some pathetic little fish in an aquarium, counting down the seconds to the link and trying to make sure that Richard Wellbeloved didn't tip his coffee — heavily laced with whisky — into the control panel.
GLOSSARY
1. to transmit передавать о TV программе
2. intended постоянные, заинтересованные
3. lure соблазнительная, увлекательная
4. capped teeth брекет — решетка, на зубы —
ортодонтические скобы на зубах
5. VTR Video-Television Recorder
6. odious неприятный, отвратительный
7. brats отродье
8. unrepentant нераскающиеся, бестыжие
9. moon демонстрировать свой зад
10. crew команда, группа
11. Autocue устройство для подсказки текста
12. to fluff their lines плохо знать свой текст
13. inadvertent машинальный, непреднамеренный
John Carven * a TV Programmer, who was everybody's idea of a heroNewsround ** is a high quality news programme. Terry used to watch it as a teenager. She is just nostalgic about this programme and she compares the professional approach of Newsround and its presentation with OUT and ABOUT.
14. f-word матерное слово
15. ulcer язва
16. to lay the blame возлагать вину
17. to despise презирать
18 crucial решающий, важный
19. links вставки
20. anchor теле или радио -ведущий программу
21. pony tail женская прическа, конский хвост
22. nip исчезать ненадолго
23. offender правонарушитель
24. deviation отклонение
25. to dwindle сокращаться, уменьшаться
26. revamp полное изменение, улучшение
27. career off the rail быстро сходить с рельсов
28. to intone произносить нараспев модулировать
29. dire жестокое, ужасное
30. unsullied незапятнанный
31. to deem полагать, думать
32. street credibility доверие людей
33. dimly тусклый 34.to tip опрокинуть 35. at the helm быть у руля
Paraphrase the following word combinations.
News-based program Over-enthusiastic reports Pre-recorded programme Ex-art-student V-necked jumper