Unit 13
Task 1. Listen to the rest of Audio Track 12. What is the context in which the following terms are used? Translate them into Russian. What do the realia in the box mean? (See Unit 13, Task 7 in the class book).
a … double-dip recession;
… strong growth;
that … was boosted;
The … rate of growth;
the … 1-3… “Standard and Poor’s”;
… “A rating”;
uncertain …1… economic …2… ;
…1-2… equipment;
the … ;
outstanding 200 … ;
healthy … of … ;
so … income is still a long way.
Task 2. Find phrasal verbs in Audio Track 12 and close the gaps:
a) to …….. back; b) to ……… off.
In what context are the verbs used in the report? Are they colloquial or neutral?
Task 3. Translate the brief in writing at home (Video 35.1). Are there any clichés in the clip?
A. …(clip title)...
European …1… finished lower as concerns over the …2… …3… …4… dampened investors’ appetite for risk, ahead of a flurry government …5… …6… this week. They are also cautious while waiting to see white kind of …7… are revealed as US companies start reporting their …8-9…
Banks were the biggest losers due to their exposure to …10… …11… in …12… …13… countries.
Miners also lost ground as …14… prices were pressured by …15… …16… …17… . Speculation that Portugal may be the next eurozone member to need a …18… …19-20… , knocked the euro to a …21-23… against the dollar. It has …24-25… now but at one stage slipped to one dollar 28.60.
…26… is …27… after the trans Alaska …28… was shut because of a …29…
Task 4. Watch Video 35.2 and fill in the blanks in its script with special terms and grammatical constructions typical of TV discourse. Identify a cliché in the piece.
What is one off? What style of discourse is this lexical unit typical of?
I. (clip title) …… : ……..
Airbus has won the world’s biggest ever …1… …2… …3… – 180 …4… for Indian …5… …6… …7… Indigo.
Most are of …8… …9… version of Airbus’ …10… …11… A320, and the first …12-13… be …14… in four …15… time.
This gives Airbus a big …16… in its annual battle with its US …17… Boeing for …18… …19… . …20… in its …21… company EADS …22… …23… on news of the 12 bln euro …24…
II. (clip title) …: …
Not even …1… of Royal wedding …2… …3… help British …4… in November – the …5… …6… …7… rose to a …8… …9… during the month – a development that will raise further concerns about …10… …11… …12… …13… in the UK.
The …14… …15… was, though, mostly …16… …17… …18… of …19… and …20… , and analysts say that was probably a …21-22… event. …23… …24… also a sharp …25… in …26… …27…
III. (clip title) … : …
The price of …1… …2… …3… has been above …4… dollars a …5… for the first time in …6… months.
That comes amid …7… …8… …9… and growing …10… …11… .
A …12… …13… forced two Norwegian …14… …15… to close …16…
And over the weekend the …17… …18… …19… had to be shut because of a …20… , though it has since resumed …21… …22…
Task 5. Watch Video 35.3 and fill in the gaps with clichés, names and terms. Translate the brief in writing (at home).
(clip title) … …
The …1-2… says there are no discussions currently …3… …4… on an …5… …6… …7… …8… …9… of …10… . The …11… was responding to media reports of pressure from …12… , …13… and other countries for Portugal to ask for …14… …15… …16… …17… …18-21… . The …22-23… Angela Merkel also denied that her country was …24-26…
Task 6. Watch Video 36 again for information. Fill in the gaps.
A. Nigel Farage says that:
the euro is … ;
the euro was not launched for the …, it was launched for … ;
it was obvious that the countries such as … would never fit requirements to enter the eurozone;
the people that support the euro are the people that want … ;
the Spanish economy and its debt … ;
these countries like … are trapped inside …
B. Ken Clarke states that:
a) the British commentators have been forecasting the death of euro about … ;
b) this crisis is not caused by the euro … ;
c) Irish should have been all right if they … ;
d) Ireland really followed the path of … ;
e) the debt is bigger than … ;
f) if the Greeks and the Irish should not been in the euro…
Task 7. Watch Video 37 in full.
What are the major sections that the report falls into? Compress each section into a sentence. Put them down into the following slots
…
…
…
d) …
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Task 8. Watch the report, fill in the gaps and make lexical analysis of the sentences below. Identify colloquial phrasal verbs in the material for analysis.
It doesn’t …1-2… but this was once George Osborn’s …3… …4… of how to cut your …5-6… to prosperity.
The …1… of his spending review …2… by the …3… …4… to public services here since 2008.
The problem is that the …1-3… in Ireland was …2… , and now a …3-5… …6… like the …7… on Dublin’s …8…
…1-2… on theses …3… streets once hit half a million, now there’s …3… poverty …4-5… doors.
5. Now …1… to …2-3… …4-5… , the couple …6-8… for the next round of …9…
6. The …1-3… is even …4… in one of Dublin’s most …5… areas. The …6… brought …7…but the new homes and …8…are …9… by near derelict blocks.
7. They …1-4… but with money …5-6…, there are people still living here.
8. The …1… is …2… too – building sites …3… in the city, and homes lying …4… and …5… in the countryside.
9. The property …1… …2… the good times here.
10. Then banks …1-2… , and many builders simply …3-4… money to finish …5… like this one.
11. And now Ireland’s countryside is …1… with …2… estates – …3… to a boom built on a …4… of foundations.
12. …1… bankers, like London’s …2… much …3-5…
13. …1-2… the British, the Irish haven’t had the option of …3… more cash …4-6…
14. But some believe Ireland …1-2… any hope of an …3… by cutting too deeply at the bottom …4-7…
15. This time it’s Labour …1-4… and warning us of a similar …5…
Task 9. What lexical units prevail in the interviews below? Fill in the gaps to answer the question.
A) Helena Hasler:
“At the height of …1… we were in over …2… . You know, we were …3… We were idiots, we never thought it would end. And we have …4…. We are struggling and we have to …5-7…”
B) Ferus Finlay:
“There are …1… where when the cupboard is …2… in the morning, there is nothing inside, when the fridge is opened in the morning, there is no milk. So, yes, we get …3… coming to the …4… to start their education, and the first thing we have to do is to make sure they get a …5… …6… breakfast.”
C) Colm Cacarthy:
“If people look around and say they’ve …1… , and the economists say they are …2-3… , that rather assumes that there was an option to not bother doing anything …4-5… and then everything will be fine. There is no such option.”
Task 10. Listen to interviews below and:
a) fill in the gaps in the second interview;
b) make corrections in the scripts of both interviews (the phrases in question are italicized).
A) Ben Hasler:
“They’re constantly putting money into the banks which got us into this situation, eventually. They are throwing money around. There are poor people who can’t afford to pay their mortgage, can’t pay electricity or gas bills and that’s it. They are not getting any aid, that is making harder for them to get money. And it seems it would never end.”
B) Belinda Pryce:
“Constant delays. We were supposed to get out of here …1… three years ago. We’re still here. I have a daughter who lives over here. She is told she won’t be out of here for five years. She …2-3… small children, she’s living in a …4-5… where there’s scattered people in, and emptiness, and a lot of …6… at night. Youngsters going around, …7… things like the apartments, setting them on fire – doing …8… vandalism. And with three young children it’s hard.”