Ex. 8 . Translate the sentences into Russian.
1. The BBC World Service broadcasts throughout the world. 2. I can receive / pick up broadcasts from Moscow on my radio. 3. They’re showing a good film on TV tonight. 4. This book was published by CUP but it was printed in Hong Kong. 5. The film was shot/made on location in Spain. 6. They cut/censored the film before showing it on TV. 7. This article /programme has been badly edited.
TEXT 2*
Read the text and answer the questions after it.
INTERMEDIATE READING COMPREHENSION – GLOBAL CALL COMMUNICATIONS
Global Communications has grown from a telecommunication solution provider for local businesses in the greater Seattle metropolitan area to a truly global corporation providing telecommunications solutions for clients both large and small. Established to fill a significant market gap for simple communication solutions, the company first expanded to most major North American cities before becoming a major multinational player.
Presently, the company is extending operations to include voice over IP, as well as high-speed cable Internet access. Global Communications’ team includes more than 40,000 specialists worldwide in more than 20 countries on three continents. Next year will see the deployment of a third generation wireless communications network in Asian countries.
The future looks bright for Global Communications. By 2005 the company will be servicing more than 15 million households and businesses globally. Global Communications will have become a household word. We look forward to serving clients and are planning to do everything to make sure that your communication future is unlimited.
QUIZ
| 1. | The company began by offering computer software solutions to local businesses in the greater Seattle metropolitan area. | + | - |
| 2. | The company was founded on an approach to providing simple communication solutions. | + | - |
| 3. | The company is reducing operations at the moment. | + | - |
| 4. | Worldwide communications employs more than 40,000 specialists. | + | - |
| 5. | The company expects to be servicing more than 50 million customers by 2005. | + | - |
TEXT 3
Read the text. Translate the new words with the dictionary, remember them. Render the text and comment on it.
IN PRAISE OF TELEVISION
(from “How to Be Inimitable” by G. Mikes)
When I first came to England, television was still a kind of entertainment and not a national decease. The English middle class people were as proud of not possessing television sets as they are of not knowing foreign languages. Television, however, has slowly conquered all layers of society and, whether we like it or not, it has come to stay.
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On the whole I like television very much indeed. The reasons for my devotion are given below.
Television is one of the chief architects of prosperity. Certain TV personalities can give away money with great charm on the slightest provocation. Of you happen to know what the capital of France is called, or who our war-time Prime Minister was with the initials of WWC (Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill) – then you are certain to be sent to Majorca for three weeks’ holiday.
Television has united the family by keeping the family at home, gaping at it round the family hearth.
Television causes more friction in family life than any other single factor by offering unique reason for quarrels as to which programme to watch.
Television is of great educational value. It teaches you while still really young how to (a) kill, (b) rob, (c) shoot, (d) poison, and generally speaking, (e) how to grow up into a Wild West outlaw or gangster by the time you leave school.
TEXT 4
Think ahead.
1. Which people do newspapers like to gossip about in your country? Are they society people, pop stars, or film stars? 2. Why do people like to read the gossip about the rich and famous? Is it to envy? Is it to learn that they have similar weaknesses to ourselves? 3. What do you know about the Royal Family in Britain?
Read the interview with Nigel Dempster, a journalist who writes the most famous gossip column in Britain for the Daily Mail and translate it into Russian.
INTERVIEW WITH NIGEL DEMPSTER
I = Interviewer
P = Nigel Dempster
I. You’re by far Britain’s best-known and most widely read gossip columnist. Is there a venous purpose in what you write in the Daily Mail or are you chiefly concerned simply to entertain your readers?
D. We’re basically concerned with informing our readers. Obviously if we entertain them at the same time that’s an added bonus. But information is why people buy newspapers, because they want to find what’s going on in places where they cannot be and they rely on me and my staff and my colleagues in the Daily Mail to bring them what actually happens in places of power and privilege, place - where they would like to be but obviously can never get inside.
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I. Do most of the people whose names appear in the Mail Diary spend their time trying to avoid getting their names in the Diary or are there more people who are actually on the telephone to you trying to get you to print their names in the Mail Diary?
D. The very nature of a gossip column is that people do not enjoy featuring in it because when we write a story it is not to the subject’s advantage usually, because they’ve done something wrong, something silly, something sexual, financial misdemeanours, something along that line or treated someone very badly like a member of their staff, and they don’t enjoy being in the Daily Mail Diary. Obviously there are people who’d like to get into gossip columns – we’re not the only gossip column - those people can find somewhere like the Express, or other newspapers, which don’t mind so much what they write about or who they write about. We take the news that those who want to get in, don't and those who don’t want to get in, certainly do.
I. Is gossip something people in Britain seem to enjoy more than people in other countries, as far as you can tell, is there a special taste for gossip in Britain?
D. You’ve got to have the basic ingredient, which is a homogenous society, and of course we’ve all lived cheek by jowl with each other for nine hundred years, more or less, and therefore we all know who we are, whether it’s the rich man in his castle or the poor man at his gate. We all understand who the Duke of Marlborough is, or what he represents, even though we don’t know the Duke of Marlborough. And therefore we all have an interest in each other because we can equate to any story, we can equate to stories about people who live at one end of the country, even though we live at the other end, which you can’t do in vast places like America. Also we’ve got а very strict structured class system, which starts with the Monarchy at the top and goes all the way down to the lower classes at the bottom. And everyone within that class system is totally aware of where they are on that class ladder, and of course they want to climb, and to climb they need to know who’s above them and who’s below them.
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I. The Royal Family is very widely featured in the press in Britain. There seem to be stories about them in the British newspapers, especially stories about the younger and more glamorous members of the Royal Family, every day. How do you go about finding new information out about the Royals?
D. There are, of course, about thirty-five members of the Royal Family if you take the oldest, the great Queen Mother, down to the youngest. And all of them are doing something every day, and if they are not, they should be. And it’s very easy to find out stories because the people around them tend to tell you what’s happening, so therefore you’ve got a filter of information coming all the way through. The Royal Family have got many staff, many people around them, from detectives, from household staff, who do gossip wherever they have time off, and stories do tend to come out. Therefore, there is a preponderance of stories about the Royal Family, and they tend usually to be highly accurate. And, of course, we tend to find them amusing because they live rich and gilded lives, and they have a certain duty to the British public because the British public pays them nearly six million pounds a year reimbursing their expenses, they have a certain duty to be exposed to the British public via the Press.
I. You often see much more outrageous and explicit stories about the Royal Family in foreign newspapers and magazines. Do you have any particularly extreme examples of inaccurate reporting of the Royal Family by foreign journalists?
D. All reporting of the Royal Family by foreign journalists is inaccurate, and in fact it's a total invention. France Dimanche, which is a Sunday newspaper in France, based in Paris, has a gossip column which is one hundred per cent invention. And the Queen, who reads French, of course, extremely well, and is fluent in French, has great fun reading it out to her family, because, in France Dimance over a ten-year period, she worked out that she had abdicated thirty-two times, her mother had been banished to Scotland twenty-eight times, Lord Snowdon … etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. There is an amusement value as long as you start with the initial presumption that nothing is ... is true.
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Assignments
Ex. 1. Answer the questions.
1. To what extent does Nigel Dempster answer the interview’s first question? 2. In your opinion, does Nigel Dempster think his Diary has a serious purpose? 3. He quotes four kinds of stories that find their way into the Diary. Use your imagination to think of some concrete examples of each. 4. What is his attitude to the Express? Why, do you think? 5. All journalists wield a lot of power. What is the power that Nigel Dempster has over his “subject”? 6. What is his point about the basic ingredient for gossip? Do you agree? 7. What is his attitude to the Royal Family and to the reporting on the Royal Family outside Britain?
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