3. Match each brief summary below to the paragraphs of the article. There is also one extra paragraph which you do not need to use.

1. Americans should encourage culture produced in their country. In Britain, local culture should be encouraged, rather than buying into American culture, often for economic reasons.

2. Britain is wrong to import so many American plays because, although some are good, the United States is not open to discussing many issues at the moment, and British plays, or plays from other countries, may well be better.

3. There is no use trying to encourage British ... culture, because American dominance is very strong

4. There are too many American films and plays on in Britain, many of which are not that good. This is typical of how American culture influences many aspects of British society.

5. It is important to worry about this trend because we are in danger of seeing plays from countries other than the United States, and of discouraging British plays which address very different issues from American plays.

4. Explain or paraphrase the following expressions and sentences from the text paying particular attention to the underlined words.

1. Overrated, overhyped and over here, American fare dominates the West End, the television and British cinemas.

2. We hear a lot about London theatre’s domination by stars. Less noticed has been its surrender to the stars and stripes.

3. Some will argue that this is merely a healthy symptom of cultural free trade and a historical tit-for-tat.

4. ...Both Britain and America need to nurture their native talent.

5. And the traditional British belief that theatre is a means of analysing society as well as exploring character is in danger of being eroded by the American fixation with personal psychology.

6. And, although I saw a handful of good shows in New York theatre, I came away convinced that our slavish submission to everything American is unwarranted.

7. ...British, Irish and Commonwealth writing being open to American fiction at the behest of a financial services company.

Language work

5. Read the definitions given below and look through the corresponding paragraph to find the word or expression, work with an English-English dictionary to be able to give the right grammar comments in the last column.

#	definition	word	comments
1	v, to be the most important issue, activity, problem etc in a particular situation [A]		T or I, passive + prep:
2	n, an event or situation that can be seen to happen or exist [A]		plural:
3	adj, still alive or remaining after others are dead or destroyed [A]		adjective [is used only before a noun]
4	v, to have the same opinion or feeling as someone else [B]		other nouns that can be used with the verb:
5	v, to deliberately prevent something or someone from being involved in an activity or from entering a place [B]		+ prep: opposite:
6	n, 1) agreement that something is true or important 2) praise or admiration [B]		verbs frequently used with it: in ... of/for smth
7	v, to shock or offend somebody very much [B]		T or I, adj. + prep (pass. meaning):
8	adj, considered ordinary or normal and accepted or used by most people [B]		adj + noun collocations: m. society, ...
9	adj, average or below average in quality [C]		synonyms:
10	v, to fail to pay attention to something such as an idea or work of art [C]		T or I
11	n, a method of doing or achieving something [C]		plural: ... to do smth/of doing smth
12	v, to officially stop something from being done, especially by making it illegal [C]		T or I, synonyms:
13	adj, used for saying that there is good enough reason for doing something, because it’s important, enjoyable, useful etc [D]		[used as a predicate, not as an attribute before a noun], followed by a noun, ...
14	adj, real, rather than pretended or false [D]		opposite:
15	adj, certain that something is true [D]		synonyms: