5.4.2. Paraphrase the following, using the key vocabulary of the module (focus 3).

1. And five national arts associations representing 12,000 organisations across the country have banded together, hiring a New York-based public relations firm to lead a campaign in support of endowing.

2. We, the British, had the knowledge in particular subjects, that we learn by experience.

3. According to Peter Palumbo, chairman of the Arts Council, in the united States 90 per cent of different kinds of art and art institutions are funded by individual donors.

4. The BBC must therefore have a clear idea of what it thinks its policy should be like if it is to retain its role as the cornerstone of British broadcasting and continue to command respect and admiration in Britain and throughout the world.

5. A teacher doesn’t develop a child, but seeks to understand, promote and help the development which is already taking place.

6. Cecil also used his official position to arrange privateering voyages in the Mediterranean, from which he drew moderate but dubious profits.

7. Charles had simply thought he was to give money and help to people who were poor or in trouble.

8. Alvin, Toffler is arguably the world’s leading public intelligent and well-educated person.

9. Indeed food manufacture as a whole underwent a complete change.

10. A relief as much as a pleasure to see him appear with credit, both as director and performer.

11. It felt painfully difficult to cut out another course.

12. He fostered her slight talent for drawing, largely copied from his own work, and saw genius in her strangely haunting imagery.

13. I do not suffer from a lack of determination to be successful, I simply accept life as it is.

14. The dramatist is acted brilliantly by John Turturro, who has the kind of aloof self-felicitation of a man conscious of his own rare perceptions.

15. In the same way, the moral value of the Bible generates spiritually discerning readers, who see its power to completely change their lives.

16. I think that in any way of expressing ideas the primitive years have the innocence and truth.

17. Self-catering holidays in rural France continue to make more and more converts interested in them.

18. Bogarde plays a Russian man who leaves his own country to live in Germany who runs a chocolate factory in Germany just as the Nazis begin to take power.

19. What you actually have to take in are three things.

20. The vicar was carried back to the shore to have a certain amount of a well-earned drink.

5.4.3. Paraphrase the following, using the key vocabulary of the module (focus 4).

1. But there is still enough talent available, including that of Menzel and Forman (who is apparently returning from Hollywood to make another film at the Barrandov Studious) to push the Czech industry of making films into the limelight again.

2. Some of them actually made their own cameras, and even more strangely, used the cameras to make the films appear in a larger form on a screen after they had made them.

3. We may pray in particular that communities will survive and develop well and that the anger and depression caused by the announcements will be healed.

4. In turn, government should provide industry with incentives to invest in the introduction of new ideas.

5. Some of the books published now would not be successful.

6. He tells me he is to make a single available for people to buy on his own.

7. When she was missing at the place where the film was made, she could be found in the stars’ dressing-rooms.

8. We also recommend four good quality value-for-money wines from Sainsbury’s which are typical examples of a particular style or region.

9. Television commentators call it the biggest meeting outside the Olympics, and while that is an exaggerated praise the standard of competition is amazingly high.

10. She became a writer producing many books: her output included articles, novels, short stories, and children’s books.

11. Tapestry is a traditional craft but the way of making money from it without thinking about its quality in Madeira is fairly recent.

12. For some, discovery methods continue to have more importance than classroom practice.

13. I entirely refuse to accept that suggestion.

14. I think you did it just to please me, or perhaps to satisfy you own deep-rooted urge to be conventional in outward things.

15. To open debate in the Media had, according to the intelligent, well-educated Ding Want, stimulated the students to more reflection on contemporary society.

16. If the government wishes to raise tax revenue in order to give a subsidy to the poor, it should levy a tax on films.

17. Before, the government gave money and support for cultural life, for choirs, all sorts of things that you did because you enjoyed them, and it hasn’t changed.

18. The company name signifies high standard, style and good taste and advertisements are designed to emphasize this.

19. In order to play a pre-programmed masterpiece, all the player has to do is wave a small baton over an electronic array.

20. You should make it clear that she is welcome to entertain any of her friends at home at reasonable times, and help to provide them with the things they want if necessary.

FOCUS 6. Writing Section