II Comprehensive check

Match the beginning of each phrase in the left-hand column with its end from the right-hand column:

1. The World Service used to be called a) reported British victories.

2. The announcers used b) in thirty-nine languages.

3. During the Second World War the BBC c) it is sure that it’s true.

4. The BBC broadcasts the news d) forty journalists work every day.

5. Here in the Newsroom a hundred and e) twice before it is broadcast.

6. The BBC will not broadcast a story until f) ‘The Empire Service’.

7. Every news story is checked at least g) television programmes.

8. The World Service is not always popular h) formal English.

9. The BBC is the world’s largest i) with governments.

10. In 1992 the World Service started broadcasting j) international broadcaster

III Make up 5 questions of the different types to the text.

I Reading

a) Read the following text

Put down the unknown words (with their transcription and translation) into your vocabulary. Be ready to translate the text orally.

b) Find and write out all irregular verbs given in the text. Remember three forms of them.

Food and Pubs in uk

Speaking about Britain's most popular 'fast food' fish and chips has to be mentioned. Fish and chip shops first made an appearance at the end of the 19th century and since then have been a firm favourite up and down the country. The dish is simplicity itself: fish (usually cod, haddock or plaice) is dipped in a batter made from flour, eggs and water and then deep fried in hot fat. Chips are made from thick batons of potato and deep fried. Fish and chips are served over the counter wrapped in paper, and traditionalists prefer to eat them straight out of the paper because they taste better that way.

The best-known British dish eaten at home has been roast beef, traditionally eaten on Sunday. The dish used to be so popular in England that the French still refer to the British as 'Les rosbifs'. Roast beef is served with roast potatoes, vegetables and gravy a sauce made from meat juices and stock, thickened with flour. Yorkshire pudding - batter baked in hot fat in the oven - is a favourite accompaniment to roast beef. If you want to try English cuisine and at the same time get acquainted with local traditions you should visit a pub.

One of the main attractions of the pub for all regular pubgoers is that it offers good company in friendly surroundings. Where else can you appear as a complete stranger and at once be able to join in a conversation with a diverse group of people? Often the style of the pub and its locality will dictate the kind of clientele you can expect to find there. Village pubs with their country furnishings and real ales attract not only local folk but citydwellers out for a drive, hikers fresh from a long day's walk and pensioners enjoying a pub lunch. City pubs tend to have a more mixed clientele - businessmen and women discussing the latest deal, theatregoers or groups of friends enjoying a drink together before going off to a restaurant or nightclub.

Good conversation and good beer are two essential items provided by the pub. The drinking of beer in a public house is not compulsory, but as any publican will tell you, beer remains the mainstay of the trade. It is said that beer is the perfect drink for the pub - it comes in large measures (one pint glasses) so that just one drink provides plenty of conversation time! Many pubs also serve food, from snacks to full meals.

Other attractions offered by city and country pubs alike include a game of darts (short, weighted steel darts are thrown at a circular dartboard numbered in sections) and snooker, a game similar to billiards.

The lure of the pub can lie in the variety of pub names; each pub has its own name, depicted on a painted inn sign hung outside the premises.

A pub name can refer to historical events, landmarks, sundry beasts or its meaning can be a complete puzzle. Some include references to animals, many with their origins in heraldry - The White Hart, the Nag's Head, the Black Bull, and the Bear to name but a few.