- •Exercises
- •Read the text consulting the notes.
- •A) Answer the following questions:
- •3. Read the text with the help of the notes which follow: Mitsuko Shimomura Breaks New Ground for Japanese Women
- •4. A) Imagine you are interviewing Shimomura. Formulate questions. Work in pairs:
- •6. Here are some quotations to think over and discuss. Write short essays giving your arguments for and against.
- •Unit 4 journalism is information
- •Essential vocabulary
- •Remember the Prepositions
- •Remember the Use of Articles
- •Practise the Pronunciation of Words
- •Exercises
- •Read the text and translate it into Russian consulting the notes and the essential vocabulary.
- •Read and translate the following international words:
- •Select the related words and translate them with the help of a dictionary:
- •Translate the following compound nouns into Russian:
- •Study the following expressions and make up sentences using some of them:
- •Answer the following questions:
- •Comment on the following: "Failure is the only thing that can be achieved without effort."
- •9. Ask and answer questions. Work in pairs. Make use of the following phrases in your answers:
- •11. Rearrange the sentences given below in the correct order according to the text.
- •12. Answer the following questions about the text:
- •13. Give the Russian equivalents for the following phrases. Consult the text and a dictionary:
- •14. Prepare to talk about the following topics:
- •15. Check your memory.
11. Rearrange the sentences given below in the correct order according to the text.
1. Nowadays the news may be known all over the world in a matter of seconds.
2. Journalism is about people. It is produced for people.
3. Twenty years ago a family usually listened to a news bulletin on the living-room radio over breakfast.
4. In America the effects of radio were more rapid.
5. The ordinary man's receptivity to journalism has greatly changed in twenty years.
6. In the evening they watch the television news programme.
7. Then radio arrived.
8. Journalism is communication.
9. Journalists have to take account of social changes.
10. The readers of newspapers who look at them over breakfast will have heard most of the news and seen many of the significant events on television the night before.
11. Journalism may also be entertainment.
12. The cave-man drew a buffalo to give other hunters the news that buffaloes were nearby.
13. Journalism satisfies the human curiosity of the world.
14. Later it became clear that radio could rival newspapers.
15. At first radio was regarded as a passing technical fad.
16. Journalism can communicate with few people as well as with many.
17. A century ago it took a very long time for the news to reach distant parts of the world.
18. Hundreds of small-town radio stations appeared in America.
19. The newspaper still has a function because the television or radio news bulletin is very compressed.
20. Father would read his morning newspaper over breakfast or on the bus or train going to work.
21. Newspapers are archives, objects of record.
22. Nowadays practically each member of the family prefers listening to his own radio.
23. Today news is available to many more people.
24. "Today the concept of a newspaper "scoop" has been killed by radio and television.
25. The BBC radio provided a nationwide broadcasting in Britain.
12. Answer the following questions about the text:
How does the author define journalism? Find all the statements on journalism.
What word does the word journalism come from?
How did people begin to communicate with each other: by means of signs, sounds, pictures, or words?
How have the various types of news media changed in a little over 100 years?
What has brought a profound change in the pattern of human communication?
What changes had taken place in the process of printing before radio arrived?
How did the development of radio broadcasting in the USA differ from that in Britain?
How did newspapers regard radio at first?
When did the way of learning news change radically in Great Britain?
How did a family get news in Great Britain about 50 years ago?
How does a family get news nowadays?
Why is it necessary for a journalist to be aware of social changes?
What is the main function of the newspaper today according to the author? What is your opinion?
13. Give the Russian equivalents for the following phrases. Consult the text and a dictionary:
the events distilled into a few words; to satisfy the human frailty of a world; today the news media are swamped by the very availability of news; the pattern of human communication; a passing technical fad; the ordinary man's receptivity to journalism; an evening's viewing; to take account of social changes; to catch on to this change; is tightly encapsulated; a highly abbreviated form; newspapers can be referred to; at greater length