Професійна іноземна мова Контрольна робота № 1 Part 1

I. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements? Use reasons (and specific examples) to explain you answer. Choose at least 3 statements to express your ideas in writing.

Прочитайте нижеприведенные выражения. Подумайте согласны или не согласны с ними? Развернуто объясните ваше согласие или несогласие. Выберите как минимум 3 утверждения, и выразите свои идеи в письменной форме.

1.The mass media play an increasing role in shaping our opinions.

2. Different people experience the same messages differently.

3. Television, newspapers, magazines, and other media pay too much attention to the personal lives of public figures and celebrities.

4. Media messages are constructed to gain profit and/or power.

5. Interest in McLuhan's work is still growing.

6. New technologies are a blessing to the modern world.

7. New technologies are a curse to the modern world.

8. New digital technologies are challenging the newspaper industry today.

9. The Internet has destroyed communication among friends and family.

10. New technologies are changing our lifestyles.

II. Write a short essay about the mass media you use most in your life. The following can help you:

Написать краткое эссе, о самом часто используемом в вашей жизни медиа. Ниже представлены вопросы, которые должны помочь написать эссе. (можно писать по своему плану и не отвечать на эти вопросы)

• On average, how much time do you spend with this medium?

• What role or purpose does this medium fulfill for you? What do you get from this medium? Do you tend to use this medium to satisfy a need such as information, entertainment or to fill the boredom?

• Do you use this medium during certain times of day or in certain situations?

• Do you use this medium alone or with others?

• How do you think your life would be different if this medium didn't exist?

• When this medium was first introduced, what impact do you think it had on our culture?

• Is there anything about your consumption of media you would like to change?

III. Write down your responses to these questions below.

Написать развернутые ответы на вопросы.

1) In your opinion, what are the most popular topics in the media today?

2) If you could make one rule about prime time broadcasting, what would it be?

IV. Match the terms with their definitions. There is one definition that you do not need.

Соединить слова и определения. Одно определение лишнее.

1. audience	a) the meaning of a message, a program, a movie, etc.
2. censorship	b) any work whose content is imaginary rather than purely factual
3. content	c) the reproducing of a writer's or speaker's exact words
4. exclusive	d) a writer working for themselves and selling their products to whoever wishes to buy them
5. fiction	e) a story in the newspaper that is published only in that particular paper and no other
6. freelance writer	f) a policy of examining a book, a film … and cutting out or banning any parts of it that are considered to be immoral
7. propoganda	g) a small-sized newspaper, usually with a lot of photographs concentrated on the private lives of celebrities
8. quotation	h) the group of people who are watching or listening to a play, concert, show, film or public speaker; or the people who read the books of a writer
9. rhetoric	i) the dissemination of information aimed at influencing the opinions or behaviors of large numbers of people
10. tabloid	j) the art of using language to communicate effectively and persuasively, especially in public speaking
	k) a person who works on a newspaper or magazine and writes articles for it