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- •Contents
- •Introduction
- •3. In what situation would you use the following set expressions? Give your own examples.
- •4. Match the words and their definitions.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the text.
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •Violent English
- •A Confluence of Cultures
- •How to Plan a Town
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •Bungalows for sale
- •3. Look at the verbs below. Match each one with an appropriate phrase from the list on the right. Use the expressions in contexts of your own.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. The following extracts from guide books describe five of the world’s most famous cities. Work in small groups. Read the descriptions and decide which city is being described in each text.
- •2. Read the extracts again and point out the facts that helped you decide which city is being described.
- •3. Work with a partner and discuss these questions.
- •4. Complete these sentences using appropriate phrases from the text. Make any changes to the phrases that are necessary.
- •5. Look at the adverbial phrases below and decide which of them have negative or limiting meaning.
- •6. Rewrite the sentences below, starting with the word or words given.
- •7. Speak about your plans for the holidays. Use at least ten expressions from Ex. 5 and 6.
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •5. Match the words to make up phrases. Explain their meaning in English.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the following extract from the book.
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •3. Read the remaining parts of the book and dwell on the following issues.
- •4. Becky is in the habit of itemizing clothes (her own and other people’s). How does she describe/speak about clothes? Compile “Becky’s clothes and fashion vocabulary”.
- •Shopaholic Abroad
- •I. Vocabulary work
- •1. Study the following words.
- •2. Fill in the gaps with the suitable word from the box. Put the words in the correct form.
- •3. Define the following words and phrases in English. Make up sentences with these words.
- •4. Match the words and their definitions.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the following extract from the book.
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •3. Read the remaining parts of the book and dwell on the following issues.
- •Shopaholic Ties the Knot
- •I. Vocabulary work
- •1. Study the following words.
- •2. Match the words and their definitions.
- •3. Fill in the words from the active vocabulary list.
- •4. In what situations would you say the following? Provide your own context for these utterances. Then find them in the text and check their actual usage.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the following extract from the book.
- •2. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •3. Read the remaining parts of the book and dwell on the following issues.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •2. Read the whole text. Do we have the press we deserve?
- •3. Use the text to answer the following questions.
- •5. Explain how you understand the following idiomatic expressions: to throw out the baby with the bath water, a toothless watchdog, to get a rough ride. In what contexts can you use them?
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •Publican Jailed for Assault
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the text. What is the topic and the implied main idea of paragraphs 6, 7 and 9?
- •2. True or false.
- •3. Select the best answer.
- •4. Discuss the following issue: What is the most important overall message the writer wants the reader to understand about stress?
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •Bill’s Eyes
- •5. Complete each sentence with the appropriate phrase.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •4. Explain the final scene of the story. Were you shocked by it or was it quite predictable? Give your reasons.
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •The Emergency Ward
- •I. Vocabulary work
- •1. Study the following words.
- •2. Choose the best definition of the italicized word.
- •3. Match the words to make up word combinations from the text.
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the text.
- •2. Choose the best answer. Explain your choice by providing evidence from the text.
- •3. On the basis of the evidence from the text, mark these statements as accurate inferences, inaccurate inferences or insufficient evidence.
- •III. Follow-up activities
- •IV. Additional tasks
- •Home reading
- •2. Can we call Champagne and Jane opposites? Prove it. Do you believe such opposites could “attract”?
- •II. Discussing the text
- •1. Read the required extracts from the book “Can You Keep a Secret?” by s. Kinsella and consider the following questions.
- •2. Agree or disagree: Being stressed out is an excuse for blabbering all your secrets to a complete stranger.
- •4. Look at the expressions in bold in these sentences. Is mind a verb or a noun in each one?
- •5. Match each expression in Ex. 4 with one of these meanings.
- •II.Discussing the text
- •II. Discussing the text
- •3. Comment on the “look-alike” pattern theory. Does it work in real life?
- •II. Tasks for “Man and Boy” by t. Parsons
- •III. Tasks for “Man and Wife” by t. Parsons
- •IV. Tasks for “How to be Good” by n. Hornby
- •Reference
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3. Use the text to answer the following questions.
1. Are readers to blame for the low standards of the press?
2. How do the papers people choose reflect their personal views? Give examples from the text.
3. To what extent can reporters interfere into public figures’ private lives?
4. Is it in the public interest to expose the private lives of public figures?
5. Who is interested in reading about scandalous lives of celebrities in the first place?
6. Has the government tried to curb press freedom?
7. What is the Press Council and what are its functions?
4. The text is replete with emotionally charged words and phrases. In what contexts would you use the following words and expressions – voracious readers, a peepshow masquerading as a newspaper, flagging TV career, prurient interest in salacious reporting, raunchy, down-market siblings, to scoop the rivals? Which of them could sound offensive?
5. Explain how you understand the following idiomatic expressions: to throw out the baby with the bath water, a toothless watchdog, to get a rough ride. In what contexts can you use them?
6. Read the following opinions, which are taken from different Internet resources, about the freedom of the press and say whether you personally support the idea of curbing press intrusion into privacy or not. Give your reasons. Who (what organization, committee, ministry, newspaper editors themselves etc.) should be responsible for it?
In the United States, the government may not prevent the publication of a newspaper, even when there is reason to believe that it is about to reveal information that will endanger our national security. By the same token, the government cannot:
Pass a law that requires newspapers to publish information against their will.
Impose criminal penalties, or civil damages, on the publication of truthful information about a matter of public concern or even on the dissemination of false and damaging information about a public person except in rare instances.
Impose taxes on the press that it does not levy on other businesses.
Compel journalists to reveal, in most circumstances, the identities of their sources.
Prohibit the press from attending judicial proceedings and thereafter informing the public about them.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org
Freedom of Expression has always been the basic requirement for the media. But sometimes the media transgresses its limitations, social ethics, code of conduct etc. in the name of freedom of expression. That’s why some experts have been emphasizing on code of conduct for media. Journalists have been opposing the idea and have suggested “self-regulations”. Self-regulation is an ideal situation, but the fact is that it may not be effective to regulate the media, particularly in the scenario of growing competition among the channels for supremacy in the business of ratings.
http://www.merinews.com
The issue of the freedom of the press is a very controversial one, especially in the current context. Some aggressive caricatures or publications about people’s private life have recently created a polemic about the freedom of the press and many people tend to think that this freedom should be restricted to respect morals and everyone’s private life.
http://en.oboulo.com
Few newspaper stories linger in the mind days, weeks, or even years after being printed. But of the ones that do, most originate in international conflict, political races, or scandal.
Scandal journalism is big business unto itself. It is profitable titillation focusing on greed, lust, and all evils that men do, guaranteeing a large and voracious audience. But this muckraking is not limited to the publications that loom over grocery-store checkout counters. Yellow journalism and rumormongering are becoming a part of the mainstream media.
There are at least two major scandal categories: one involving famous people and one in which the people involved become famous because of the scandal.
Any story involving celebrity public figures immediately acquires the stamp of newsworthiness. People, including journalists, generally assume (perhaps erroneously) that because famous people are important, the story itself is important. This effectively hands major media outlets a ready-made reason for providing the public with every minute detail of the lives of the parties involved.
Of course, what is relevant to one journalist (or reader) can be considered offensive by another. Are there any guidelines in the newsroom? Not according to Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, who wrote in his book Media Circus that “the plain truth is that there are no rules anymore, no corner of human behavior into which prying reporters won’t poke.” Salacious tidbits aren’t solely in the domain of the National Enquirer, he continues. “All of the media, from the prestige press to the sensationalist rags, have been infected by a tabloid culture that celebrates sleaze.”
http://www.highbeam.com
More and more, legal considerations are influencing, if not determining, day-to-day decisions in the media. Each of the following could represent a major legal problem:
a TV news report quoting a police officer about a drunk driver who caused a fatal accident;
a mistake that associated the wrong name or home address with criminal wrongdoing;
a record bought at a local store that’s used as background music for a commercial;
a TV drama based on the life of a well-known person publishing controversial excerpts on a web site from a new novel;
a TV cameraman who accompanies the police into a home during a drug raid;
a photo from a web page used in a student newspaper announcing that a local businessman has contracted AIDS.
Any one of these could launch a costly lawsuit. How costly? Well, the average cost of just defending yourself from a libel suit (which could result from the last statement) is about $550,000. If you happen to lose the suit, the settlement could amount to millions of dollars on top of that.
Although most legal restraints, such as shield laws, laws against defamation, libel, invasion of privacy, etc., are in the public’s best interest, others are not, such as when a large corporation threatens a costly lawsuit if a true story about their wrongdoing is printed or broadcast.
http://www.cybercollege.com