- •Module 1
- •The Media
- •2. In groups, discuss which of these comments might be made about each of the forms of media in Exercise 1. Explain your reasons if necessary.
- • Reading
- •1. Comprehensive questions:
- •2. Language Focus
- •3. Translate the following word-combinations into English:
- •4. Explain the contextual meaning of the words in bold and translate the following sentences into Ukrainian.
- •5. Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word from the topical vocabulary, making any necessary changes.
- •6. Enrich your vocabulary:
- • 1. Read the text and find words in the text which mean the following:
- •2. Match the two parts of the collocations used in the text above:
- •3. Translate into Ukrainian:
- •5. Answer these questions about the language in the text .
- •6. Translate the following into Ukrainian:
- •9. Fill the gaps using active vocabulary.
- •The British Press
- • 2. Reading
- •The british press
- •3. Comprehensive questions:
- •4. Language focus
- •5. Translate the following words and word-combinations into English:
- •6. Fill in the blanks with an appropriate word from the topical vocabulary, making any necessary changes.
- •8. Choose the quotation you like best of all. Comment on it.
- •10. Choose the right answer.
- •12 . Read the newspaper contents list. Which pages would you look at if you wanted to read about the following:
- •16. Fill in the missing articles if necessary. Retell the text:
- •17. Fill in the missed prepositions if necessary. Retell the text. The Characteristics … the National Press: Sex and Scandal.
- •19. Choose the right answer.
- •Identify each one with one of the following words or phrases.
- •Newspaper headline language
- •Violent words
- •4. Match the headline to its story and explain the play on words in each case.
- •5. Language Focus
- •6. On the left there is a list of headlines. On the right there is a list of news topics. Match the headlines with the appropriate topic as in the example.
- •13. Express each of the following headlines as it would appear in an ordinary news announcement.
- •2. Language focus
- •Бі-Бі-Сі
- •4. Language focus
- •Vox-pop
- •6. Write the correct form of the verb in brackets:
- •Незалежне телебачення
- •Незалежне радіо
- •8. Fill in the gaps in the sentences below with the most appropriate word: comics buttons pick up/receive broadcast/programme camcorder remote control.
- •9. Match each word in the left-hand column with the best meaning in the right-hand column. Place the letter of the best definition in the space provided. Learn the definitions.
- •1. Read the information to get a general idea of pros and cons of the Internet use.
- •2. Language focus
- •6. Some of these pairs of opposites exist in the language of Internet/computer communications, others do not. Tick the box for 'exists' or 'doesn't exist'.
- •8. Use the correct words to fill the gaps in these sentences. You are given a paraphrase of the meaning in brackets.
- •9. Look at these expressions taken from magazine articles and advertisements for computers and Internet services. In your own words, say what the words in bold mean.
- •10. Do the quiz and discuss your answers with a partner.
- •2. Language focus
- •3. Without looking at ex. 1 test your memory for words that mean ...
- •5. Sort this group of eight vocabulary items into two sets of four, one connected with books, the other with magazines. Use a dictionary if necessary.
- •6. Fill the gaps in these sentences with appropriate words .
- •7. From the context guess the most likely meaning of the expressions in bold.
- •Mass Media in Ukraine reading
- •1. Read the text, translate it into Ukrainian. Be ready to discuss it.
- •2. Comprehensive questions:
- •Idioms you can use when…
2. Match the two parts of the collocations used in the text above:
1. air groups
2. issue conference
3. muck bite
4. press season
5. pressure raking
6. silly sources
7. sound a statement
8. tap your views
3. Translate into Ukrainian:
pressure groups; to air one’s views ; to seek publicity; to hold press conferences; to issue a statement ;press release; a sound bite; silly season; to tap useful sources; column inches; to put one’s own gloss/spin on a story; muck-racking.
4. Read and comment on the following text:
Delivering the news
A rag is an informal word for a newspaper and it suggests that it is not of very high quality. The gutter press is a disapproving term used about the kind of newspapers and magazines that are more interested in crime and sex than serious news. A glossy is an expensive magazine printed on good quality paper.
Journalists produce copy, which has to be ready for a deadline. When everything is ready the newspaper goes to press. A very important story that comes in after going to press may find its way into a stop press column. A very new newspaper or story can be said to be hot off the press.
A story that is only to be found in one newspaper is an exclusive. A scoop is a story discovered and published by one newspaper before all the others. A major story can be said to hit the headlines on the day it is published. At that time the story breaks or becomes public knowledge. If it is an important story it will receive a lot of coverage or space in the press. A newspaper may be taken to court for libel or defamation of character if it publishes an untrue story that harms a person's reputation. If you are doing research into a news event, you may want to get hold of some previous issues of newspapers, or back copies, and you may wish to make a folder of cuttings from the papers about the event.
5. Answer these questions about the language in the text .
Would you write to a chief editor asking for a job on 'his rag'? Why / Why not?
What do you think about newspapers if you refer to them as the gutter press?
What is it very important for journalists not to miss?
Can you give an example of a famous fashion glossy?
What two words might describe the kind of story that a journalist dreams of getting?
What two expressions refer to the moment of publication of a big story?
Which two crimes are mentioned in the text and what do they consist of?
What might a film star keep in her scrapbook of press cuttings?
6. Translate the following into Ukrainian:
A rag; the gutter press; a glossy; a copy; a deadline; to go to press; a stop press column; to be hot off the press; an exclusive; to hit the headlines; the story breaks; to receive a lot of coverage; libel; defamation of character; back copies; cuttings.
7. Find English equivalents for the following words and phrases:
Ілюстрований журнал; бульварна преса; використовувати відповідні джерела; сенсаційна новина (в газеті); зробити заяву; кількість рядків у газеті; контролювати; ключова фраза; час парламентських канікул; вирізки з газет; обговорювати свої погляди; прагнути популярності; попередні видання; ревно розслідувати і викривати темні махінації; пропонувати свою інтерпретацію сюжету; про це писали усі газети; група, що впливає на громадську думку; обмова; письмовий наклеп; висвітлення події; матеріал, надрукований тільки в одній газеті; найсвіжіша інформація; екстрене повідомлення в газеті; граничний строк виходу газети.
8. Translate into English:
Про сенсаційні новини можна дізнатися з екстрених повідомлень в газеті.
Для цієї статті редактор виділив декілька колонок на першій шпальті.
Про журналіста, який ревно розслідував та викривав темні махінації відомого банкіра, писали усі газети.
Робота бульварної преси побудована таким чином, щоб найсвіжіша інформація негайно йшла до друку.
Популярний співак зробив заяву на прес-конференції, що на нього надруковано наклеп, і звернувся до керівництва газети з проханням перевіряти інформацію і використовувати відповідні джерела.
Керівництво цього ілюстрованого журналу схвалює, коли репортери пропонують свою інтерпретацію сюжету.
Попередні видання не містили цікавої інформації, тому що це був мертвий сезон для політики.
Цей акт тероризму було широко висвітлено в усіх періодичних виданнях.