Unit 12

Task 1. Close the gaps in the following sentences to see the contextual use of the idioms and phrasal verbs in the report you have just watched.

1. [Village name …1…], on the cusp of the counties of …2-4…, …5… itself for what might be to come.

2. … and customers at the local shops …1… …2… …3… .

3. “I’m afraid, we are completely …1… …2…”

4. At the stables more than 40 horses are confined to barracks, …1… …2… snuggly against the biting cold.

5. “Unfortunately, I was …1… a horse …2… of stable yesterday. And it just literary …3… …4… a bit of ice and …5… …6… fracturing its pelvis.”

Task 2. Close the gaps in the sentences below and say what stylistic means are used in them. Are the sentences simple, complex or compound?

1. …1… the village is …2… with snow.

2. At the Equastrian Centre the shelves have been cleared of …1… and …2… that might keep animals warm.

3. The local school is under a …1… of white and …2… decisions will need to be made about …3… to allow pupils to come to lessons on Monday.

4. Most people have already …1-2… for the next …3… of the snow and ice …4…

5. …1… antic sledges are proving popular, it’s the staples that are disappearing fast.

6. …1… the temperatures firmly below zero, and the snow …2… …3… yet again, most of the villagers here in …4… are doing what sensible people would do under these conditions – they are …5… …6… .

7. wrapped up …1… against the …2… cold.

8. …1… for now the “…2-3… ” is no longer …4… Instead, it’s a …5-6…

Task 3. Listen to Audio Track 11 in full and:

- find all special terms, write them down;

- find epithets of the following words: a) sludge; b) ecology.

Write them down.

Task 4. Fill in the gaps (fragments of Video 31 script). What stylistic means are used in the sentences below?

1. The …1… of sludge is …2…

2. Emergency workers are trying to …1-3… but this disaster is …4-5… .

3. Smaller waterways and streams have already been …1… by the toxic …2… .

4. It’d …… from the reservoir at an industrial plant…

5. Many of the small towns and the villages in its path are …1… in poisonous …2…

Task 5. Compare the information in the news article in Task 10, in Audio Track 11 and Video 31 highlighting the ecological disaster in Hungary. What conclusions do you come to? Fill in the grid below.

Mass media text / Contents	Similar facts	Difference: choice of words, stylistic devices
Press report
Television report
Radio report

Task 6. Watch Video 32, make up two lists of special terms:

a) ecology; b) oil extraction.

Task 7. Close the gaps in the sentence fragments below of Video 32.

What lexical units and stylistic means prevail in the sentences? What is the syntactical structure of the sentences below?

1. “We’re 350 km north of the Arctic Circle where humpback whales …1… the waters and …2… the passing traffic.”

2. This is one of the …1… …2… and …3… regions on the planet.

3. …1… as well as the main platform, they have a second drilling ship ready to begin a relief …2… immediately in an event of a leak and …3-4… what they call the …5-7… equipped to physically tow icebergs away from the rig site.

4. So these support vessels, they ring, …1-3… the drill ships in…

5. …1… in an event that an iceberg enters that safety zone, then they …2… tow it out of the way.

6. The drilling here in these …1… Arctic waters has been condemned by environmental groups as …2… disappointing.

7. An oil spill in these waters would be …1… for this …2… eco system.

8. The sea here is so cold that …1… the Gulf of Mexico where the oil is rising to the surface and able to be dispersed or …2-3…, here the oil would …4… much …5… slowly.

9. So it would tend to stay below the surface, in a …1… and …2… slick.

10. …1… unlike the Gulf of Mexico, a …2-6… this is where a Greenland’s spill response would have to be mounted.

11. …1… the fishing stocks …2-4… and there are …5… problems with unemployment.

12. …1… there is to be an …2-3… here it would likely be …4… future generation who would …5-7…

13. …1… …2… demand is not decreasing, …3… these …4… frontiers are where the industry is …5… heading. The age of …6-7… , so they say, …8-9…

Task 8. Watch Video 33 lead and get its idea. Fill in the gaps to make its lexical and stylistic analysis.

…1-2… , …3-4… and …5-6… could be seen back on the supermarket shelves. EU laws which …7… years of …8-9… in the 1980s have been …10… to try to help consumers through the …11…

Task 9. Watch Video 33 in full. Close the gaps in the sentences below. The word list in the box would be of much avail to you. Study it. Say what lexical units prevail in it.

nully pot belly to nurture fearsome vegy kinky

topsy turvey gruesome curvy to ditch caulli

1. They grow in the same fields, …1… by the same …2… and are …3-4… by the same people.

2. But until now al fruit and vegetables were not …1… In the EU there was a form of …2-3… but no more.

3. The days of the …1… carrot, …2-3… turnip and …4-5… parsnip are back.

4. And it’s …1-2… the …3-4…

5. And this …1-2… would have been …3-4… to. …4… it’s …5… small.

6. “Our customers want to have a …1-2… vegetables which …3… they are going to peel and chop, and use in cooking. …4… they don’t mind they are slightly more diverse.”

7. …1… do we really want …2… greens and …3… fruit?

8. “…1… you assume if these …2… ones are cheaper you’d buy those, would you?”

9. …1… before we start transforming our …2-3… into the …4-6… there are still some things that have to be the right size and shape.

10. Apples – …1… , they’ve got to be apple shaped. …2-4… ? Pears, they …5-7… be pear-shaped.

11. …1… , even they can be sold in non-standard form as long as it’s made clear to the …2… purchaser that they are lesser …3… that the great …4… staff.