2.Match a and b

A a staff writer a free-lance writer a ghost writer a columnist to endow conventional to engage to oblige the audience

B a. a writer who gets paid only if a publisher buys his/ her work b. a writer who writes for another person c. a professional writer who works for a salary d. to do something that someone has asked you to e. to meet the interests of the audience f. someone who writes articles about particular subjects g. to give a good feature or quality h. following the opinion of the people in the society

3.Explain the terms and find Ukranian equivalents:

Staff writers, free-lance writers, ghost writers, beginning writers, technical writers, columnists, engaged literature, to oblige the audience.

4. Say whether the statement is true or false:

1. Staff writers are the professional writers who work for a salary.

2. Free-lance writers express the complex ideas of engineers and scientists in words that a non-expert can understand.

3. Staff writers prepare documents for public agencies.

4. Free-lancers do not write any books.

5. The mission of a writer is to affirm life in all its diversity, to assert everything the human soul has always aspired to.

6. A great poet is always the voice of his epoch.

7. Conventionally an artist is supposed to have responsibility for his talent or calling.

8. Writers create with hope to influence people’s minds and souls by way of discussing important and complex problems of the world.

9. Great writers always remain the contemporaries of later generations.

10. A writer may glorify the heroic past, and his eyes are never directed to the future.

5. What do you think a ghostwriter is? Choose a definition:

1. Someone who writes novels under a ‘pen name’ instead of their real name.

2. Someone who writes frightening stories.

3. Someone who writes a story for someone else in the other person’s voice.

6. a) Read an interview with Andrew Crofts, a ghostwriter.

A: Andrew, what exactly does a ghostwriter do?

B: A ghostwriter helps one who has a story or an expertise that they want to put into book form but doesn’t actually have the right skill to produce the book themselves. So they have the story in their head, or in their filing cabinets, or in their memory in some way, and a ghostwriter will listen to what they have to say and then will create a book from that.

A: What were you doing before you became a ghostwriter?

B: Well I discovered it by accident. I was interviewing a man for a business magazine, who was uh…, a thing called a business guru, who used to hold seminars for people and teach them how to improve their profits and things, and he… at the end of interview, he said to me ‘I’ve been asked to produce a series of books, which I want to do for publicly reasons, but I don’t have the time to actually do it myself’. He said ‘If I give you the material, uh… will you write the books, and I’ll have the glory, and I can have the money’.

A: You’ve written many successful books as a ghostwriter. Have you been tempted to stop ghostwriting and write books under your own name?

B: I have written books under my own name as well, but if …I’m just a sucker for a story and if someone rings me up, particularly if they have an interesting foreign accent and I think, you know, I’m going to travel somewhere and meet somebody that’s had a life I’ve… is going to be new and interesting to me, I just can’t resist.

A: What have you learned from your experiences as ghostwriter, as a writer and an individual?

B: I think as a writer it is the capturing other people’s voices…, and learning how to structure a story so that it works in a book form. As an individual it has taught me a huge amount about how the rest of the world lives. Otherwise …like most writers I don’t go out that much and I wouldn’t go out at all if I could sit at home and write novels just from my imagination. So it has forced me to go out and meet a far more diverse …, number of people than I would ever otherwise have come across. But at greater depth, than I would have done in journalism which is the other option. As a journalist you get to do that, you get to meet a huge range of people, but as a journalist you’re there for ten minutes interviewing a film star before you’re shuffled out of the hotel room, or you’re there for an hour or two with somebody… and then you move onto the next story, which suits a lot of people. But I do actually quite like the immense couple… two or three months of being in one person’s skin and, um, I’ve found that…I’ve learnt a lot about other people.

b) Work in pairs and discuss the questions:

1. What sorts of people use a ghostwriter? 2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of being a ghostwriter? 3. Do you think being a ghostwriter is an interesting job? Why? / Why not?

c) Complete the following sentences. Imagine they are the opening lines of a book and make them as interesting as you can. Then think of two more sentences:

1. She was sleeping peacefully in her bed when suddenly... .

2. We were watching a rather boring film at the cinema when... .

3. They were sitting on the plane on their way to Tokio when... .

d) Work with a partner you don’t know very well. Tell your partner about some experience from your life (It doesn’t have to be true). ‘Ghost’ your partner’s experience using your notes. Write a paragraph that starts with ‘I was.... when...’ Then swap roles. Read your partner’s paragraph. Are all the facts correct? Is it easy and interesting to read?