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Section 1 text comprehension questions

  1. What problem is covered in the newspaper publication under study?

  2. Which species of ocean mammals fell victims to El Niño?

  3. What is the reported wildlife toll of El Niño?

  4. What geographical areas were worst affected by the warm current of El Niño?

  5. Where and why is the death rate among baby seals and sea-lions expected to rise?

  6. What are the destructive consequences of the year’s first big El Niño storm and who has borne the brunt of El Niño so far?

  7. What is reported to be home to the largest populations of California sea lions and northern fur seals outside Alaska?

  8. What rescue measures are taken by scientists and conservation groups and what do they consider to be the cause of the current severe El Niño pattern?

  9. What usually gives mammal population easy access to cold water fish, enumerate what kinds of fish these are?

  10. Why are baby seals and sea lions dying by the thousand and how many of them have so far died according to the National Marine Fisheries Service?

  11. What is the role of the international conservation treaties in saving both species and what are experts apprehensive about?

  12. What is the indispensable condition for wildlife’s survival?

  13. What amount of money is going to be spent on the assistance to the countries hit by El Niño?

Section 2

Analysis of genre peculiarities of a newspaper publication

2.1.

  1. Does the information conveyed concern the event that has recently taken place or/and does it concentrate on the problem of general human interest?

  2. Does the journalist’s position seem to be that of an unbiased observer or does he impose his assessment and emotional attitude to the facts discussed on the reader? If it is so, what language means serve this purpose?

  3. What is the correlation between pure, matter-of-fact information and elements of appraisal and appeal to the reader in the text?

2.2.

    1. Can the initial physical paragraph be treated as an instance of a lead?

    2. What paralinguistic features of the publication serve to attract the casual reader’s attention? Comment on the splash headline, subheading and the arresting picture.

    3. Do the headlines’ grammar and vocabulary meet the requirements of the newspaper style? Comment on them.

    4. Which newspaper genre is the topographical design of the writing more characteristic of – a news report or a feature article? Comment on the size and the syntactic structure of the paragraphs.

2.3.

  1. Is there a large amount of quotations in the text? How are they introduced?

  2. Which grammatical forms used in the writing are suggestive of spoken English style?

  3. Which mode of expression prevails in the text – the clichéd, stereotyped vocabulary or the author’s stylistic idiosyncratic preferences?

  4. What language and paralinguistic means serve to evoke the reader’s compassion for the dying sea animals?

  5. Is the newspaper writing characterized by a wide use of scientific terminology? Which field of knowledge does it refer to?

  6. Which stylistic devices are preferred by the author: trite or genuine ones?

  7. What epithets illustrate the author’s subjective handling of the information conveyed?

  8. What conclusion can be drawn in respect to the genre of the newspaper writing in question? What ‘borderline’ genre features can be observed both on the structural and lexical levels of the text?

Section 3

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