Ex. 1. What sort of TV programmes do you think these would be?
1. Murder at the Match. 2. The Amazing Underwater World. 3. World Cup Special. 4. The $10,000 Question. 5. Last Week in Parliament. 6. Hamlet from Stratford.
Ex. 2. Work in small groups.
A. Make up a short radio news report about some things (real or imaginary) that have happened in your University, town or country.
B. Make up a short radio news report about the story behind one of the newspaper headlines:
1. Ex-president starts new job. 2. MP with cat problems. 3. Blind teenager climbs Everest. 4. Prison for midnight fridge thief. 5. Flowers for girlfriend cost him $5,000. 6. 10-mile swim for nothing. 7. Alience steal Eifel Tower.
Ex. 3. Put together a class newspaper or radio programme with reports of the things that have happened at your University during the last week.
Ex. 4. Try to explain at least one point of view given below by one humorist’s view of people who read the British papers.
1. The Financial Times is read by people who own the country. 2. The Times is read by people who run the country. 3. The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country. 4. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country. 5. The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country. 6. The Sun is read by people who do not care who runs the country so long as they have beautiful smiles, long legs and big chests.
Ex. 5. Render any English article making use of the following scheme.
| The plan for rendering the text | Some expressions to be used while rendering the text |
| 1. The title of the article. | The article is headlined ... The headline of the article I have read is ... |
| 2. The author of the article, where and when the article was published. | The author of the article is… The article is written by ... It is (was) published in ... It is (was) printed in ... |
| 3. The main idea of the article. | The main idea of the article is ... The article is about ... The article is devoted to ... The article deals with ... The article touches upon ... The purpose of the article is to give the reader some information on ... The aim of the article is to provide the reader with some material (data) on ... |
| 4. The contents of the article. Some facts, names, figures | a) The author starts by telling the reader that … b) The author writes (states, stresses, thinks, points out) that … The articles describes… c) According to the text … Further the author reports (says) … The article goes on to say that … d) In conclusion … The author comes to the conclusion that … |
| 5. Your opinion of the article. | I found the article interesting (important, dull, of no value, too hard to understand …) |
Ex. 6. Do the tasks. A. Buy several newspapers on the same day and look at the various reports of the same incidents. Or listen to the news on two different radio/TV channels. Talk to the class about the differences you have found.
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B. Interview the people in the group about the newspapers they read. Find out the reasons for their choices. Use the following questions.
1. What newspaper are you looking through? 2. Is it a morning or an evening newspaper? 3. What is the headline of the editorial? 4. What is the editorial devoted to? 5. What material is published on the front page…? 6. What international news does the issue carry? 7. What articles does page 2, 3, 4, contain? 8. What sporting news does the paper carry?
C. Look at several different newspapers and compare them. What do you think is good or bad about each one? Discuss your opinions with the other students. Use the following conversational formulae.
As far as I know, as far as I remember, according to the data I have, that’s right, just so, to be worth listening to, to be worth watching, to be of great interest, to be exciting, to be instructive, to give much useful information, to be of no use, to be dull, to be of no interest.
Ex. 7. Give some information on your institute newspaper.
1. Does your institute put out any newspaper? What is its title? 2. How often does your paper come out? 3. What matter does your paper usually carry? 4. Who writes articles for your paper? 5. What material does the latest issue of the article contain?
Ex. 8. Choose any newspaper and complete the following sentences.
1. The main story today is about ___ 2. The editorial is about ___ 3. There are readers’ letters on page ___ and they deal with the following topics: ___. 4. The most interesting feature is about ___ 5. There is some scandal on page ___ a crossword on page ___ a cartoon on page ___ and some small ads on page ___ 6. The most interesting business story is about ___ and the largest sports article is about ___ 7. The most striking photograph shows ___ 8. There are advertisements for ___, ___ and ___ 9. An article about ___ on page ___ made me feel ___.
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