Vocabulary

To claim – заявлять

Kidnapped children – похищение детей

Trafficking – торговля (детьми)

Abduction – похищение

Driftwood – щепка

Ditch – яма

Rumor – слух

To vomit – тошнить

To snap – разламывать

To pop – широко раскрываться

To swell (swelled, swollen) – раздуваться

To bloat – раздуваться, пухнуть

To rip – отделяться

To drown – тонуть

To stretch – протянуться

To decompose – гнить, разлагаться

Swath – ряд, полоса

Corpse – труп

Activity 2

Find the English equivalents in the text.

1. Правда теряется по пути.

2. Много детей сирот похищают и продают в сексуальное рабство.

3. «Мы это проверим», - ответил я.

4. Очень много историй похожих на эту.

5. Их не видели почти 2 недели.

6. Она говорит шепотом и сжимает фотографию девочки, одетую балериной.

7. Они были в машине с родителями, когда их настигло цунами.

8. «Это только слухи», - говорит он.

9. Он живет недалеко от отеля.

10. Тело было слегка теплым, и я верил, что у нее есть пульс.

Activity 3

Complete the sentences with the words below.

do tsunami line mass grave body camera

1. Because the morgue here had been demolished by (1).

2. We decide that the least we can do it is to find her (2).

3. Hundreds of small photos (3) the walls.

4. No one ever talks about what the water can (4).

5. They’ve now been buried in a (5) on the outskirts of town.

6. Phil puts his (6) down for a moment to change batteries.

Activity 4

Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right.

front page local papers emergency room ward aid workers news crew tabloid snap into focus look into

a team of journalists to concentrate a newspaper, usually characterized by an emphasis on photographs sensational style accident department periodicals of a particular area the cover of a newspaper esp. with large headlines to investigate helpers a room in a hospital

Activity 5

Use the reported speech in the following sentences.

1. “We’ll look into it”, I responded.

2. “There have been a lot of stories like that”, he said.

3. I believe that they’re alive, their aunt told us when we tracked her down in Colombo.

4. From our staff, three people came and tried to turn the car”, he told me.

5. “The paper says the children were kidnapped by a man on a motorcycle” I said showing him the head line.

6. “That is just rumor”, de Silva said.

7. “I saw the child lying on the ground”, he finally told us.

8. “I immediately picked her up and gave her mouth to mouth. She had some white foam on her lips”, answered he.

Activity 6

Translate the text from English into Russian beginning with the words “No one ever talks” till “mothers’ arms”.

Activity 7

Use the prompts and make up sentences about the “kidnapped children”.

Lots of storm orphans Child trafficking Two kids A man The man The story

are kidnapped were in a car picked up is a major problem went up was believed

in Sri-Lanka rumor with their parents with good intention that the girl was alive a girl

Activity 8

Answer the questions:

1. What is working in news compared with?

2. What is the major problem in Sri–Lanka?

3. What does a hired Sri–Lankan newspaper reporter show the crew of Anderson Cooper?

4. What is the story about the tow kids kidnapped by the man on the motorcycle?

5. Was it just rumor?

6. Who made Hamasiri out to be a kidnapper?

7. How did people drown?

8. Where are bodies carried and dumped?

Activity 9

Agree or disagree with the following statements. Give your reasons.

1. As a journalist, no matter how moved you feel, how respectful you are, part of your brain remains focused on how to capture the horror you see, how to package it, to present it to others.

35.000 people are dead in Sri–Lanka. Their bodies have already been found. Another 5.000 people have simply vanished.

2. Every report is the same: in calculable loss, unspeakable pain.

Activity 10

Write an article about losses in Sri–Lanka (100 – 150 words).