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Unit 6. Newspapers and Television: The World of Mass Media - номер 6, страница 80.

Условие.

6 Read this article from “The Guardian” and answer the questions after it.

TV Millionaire

“Anybody can do it,” says garden designer who won quiz’s top prize.

After two years ITV’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? turned up its first £1 m winner. Judith Keppel, 58, achieved what many had thought impossible by taking the top prize with a remarkably wide-ranging knowledge of history and geography combined with good judgement and an element of good luck.

Ms Keppel, a garden designer from Fulham in West London is trying to decide how to spend her new-found fortune. Her success gave ITV chiefs almost as much reason to celebrate. After all, they had already given away £11,800,000 to get here.

Right to the last, the show’s host, Chris Tarrant, kept up the pressure on Ms Keppel. Seeing the £1 m question: “Which king was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine?” Ms Keppel did something that no other contestant of the British version of the show has done before — she decided to gamble £468,000 by answering.

An incorrect reply would have sent her winnings to £32,000, and the show’s producers intensified the atmosphere by cutting to a commercial break. It was three minutes before Tarrant said what he knew as soon as she had replied: that Henry II was the correct answer. As the audience jumped to its feet in joy, Ms Keppel remained as cool as she had been since starting out on the journey to £1 m. Her daughter Rosie ran down from the audience to hug her, while Tarrant expressed surprise at her calm. Ms Keppel replied: “I can’t believe it, that’s why.” She then turned to her daughter and joked: “What do you want for Christmas?”

Viewers first saw Ms Keppel on Saturday night, when she was the only perspective contestant who correctly placed four former prime ministers in date order. Her next hurdle came on the £16,000 question when she required the audience’s help to name Mr Blair’s country of birth. The location of Duffel, the town which gave its name to a variety of coat, proved more problematic. She used her 50-50 lifeline to reduce the possible answers to Belgium and Holland. After some thinking she hit on Belgium. “It sounded more French. So I chose Belgium. That was my real gamble.”

It paid off, because she was puzzled by a question about a stage direction from Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. Fortunately her friend of 10 years, Jilly Greenwood, shrieked: “I know the answer, darling.” And she took £125,000.

Tarrant said the strategy had saved her lifelines. She could have used her phone-a-friend on the Duffel coat question but she said “no, my friends wouldn’t know this.” In her interview Ms Keppel said, “Money has not been a terrible problem and I’m obviously not on the breadline, but I’m really looking forward to spending it.”

(You can find the questions Ms Keppel answered in Ex. 7 and see if you can answer them.)

1. According to the article, what helped Ms Keppel to win £1 m?

2. What question made her a millionaire?

3. What three lifelines did she use in the game?

4. Do you agree that “anybody can do it” and win the top prize in a game show like this?

5. Do they show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? on Russian television? Do you watch it or other programmes like this?

6. What makes game shows on television so popular?

Решение.

Решение 2.

Прочитайте статью из "The Guardian" и ответьте на вопросы после нее.

1. Согласно статье, что помогло мисс Кеппел выиграть 1 миллион фунтов стерлингов?

2. Какой вопрос сделал ее миллионером?

3. Какие три подсказки она использовала в игре?

4. Согласны ли вы с тем, что "это может сделать каждый" и выиграть главный приз в подобном игровом шоу?

5. Показывают ли по российскому телевидению шоу "Кто хочет стать миллионером"? Вы смотрите его или другие подобные программы?

6. Что делает игровые шоу на телевидении такими популярными?

Ответ:

1. According to the article, what helped Ms Keppel to win £1 m was a remarkably wide-ranging knowledge of history and geography combined with good judgement and an element of good luck. (Согласно статье, мисс Кеппел помогли выиграть 1 миллион фунтов стерлингов ее удивительно обширные знания в области истории и географии в сочетании со здравым смыслом и элементом удачи.)

2. The question that made her a millionaire was: “Which king was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine?”. (Вопрос, который сделал ее миллионером, был: «Какой король был женат на Элеоноре Аквитанской?»)

3. She used the “Ask the Audience”, “50-50”, and “Phone-a-Friend” lifelines. (Она использовала подсказки «Помощь зала», «50 на 50» и «Звонок другу».)

4. I don't fully agree. I think you need to have a lot of knowledge in many different areas and also be very lucky. Not everyone can do it, it seems very difficult. (Я не совсем согласен. Я думаю, нужно обладать большими знаниями во многих разных областях, а также быть очень удачливым. Не каждый может это сделать, это кажется очень сложным.)

5. Yes, they show a Russian version of this show. I sometimes watch it with my family. It's fun to try to answer the questions ourselves. (Да, у нас показывают российскую версию этого шоу. Я иногда смотрю его с семьей. Забавно пытаться самим отвечать на вопросы.)

6. I think people like game shows because it's exciting to watch someone win a huge amount of money. Also, viewers can test their own knowledge and compete with the players from their couches, which is fun. (Я думаю, людям нравятся игровые шоу, потому что это захватывающе — смотреть, как кто-то выигрывает огромную сумму денег. Кроме того, зрители могут проверить свои знания и соревноваться с игроками, сидя на диване, а это весело.)