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Unit 6. Newspapers and Television: The World of Mass Media. Reading for Country Studies: «The Press in Britain and Elsewhere» - номер 12, страница 222.

Условие.

READING FOR COUNTRY STUDIES

12 🎧 🗣️ A. Listen to the text “The Press in Britain and Elsewhere” (No. 33) and choose the right items.

1. People buy newspapers ... .
a) for various reasons
b) because they are light and it is easy to read them

2. ... are called “the press”.
a) Printed forms of the media
b) newspapers, magazines and television

3. ... newspapers tend to be either serious or popular.
a) Everywhere in the world
b) In the United Kingdom

4. Depending on the area over which newspapers are sold they can be further divided into ... .
a) daily or weekly
b) local, national and international

5. A symbol of the British Press is ... .
a) Fleet Street
b) Oxford Street

6. Popular papers are also called ... .
a) quality papers
b) tabloids

🎧 📚 B. Read the text “The Press in Britain and Elsewhere” and say what is missing in these pairs.

1) Mass Media: — the press
...?

2) Newspapers: — ...?
— weekly

3) Newspapers: — morning
...?

4) Newspapers: — local
...?

5) Newspapers: — Sunday
...?

6) Newspapers: — quality (serious)
...?

7) Newspapers: — general interest
...?

The Press in Britain and Elsewhere

It’s common knowledge that newspapers report the news. Published on a regular basis, usually daily or weekly, they also interpret events behind the news. In addition, newspapers give useful information, such as stock market prices, weather reports and television programmes.

They are also a popular source of reading for entertainment. People often buy newspapers for their feature articles on subjects of wide interest, such as travel and fashion, for their comics and crosswords, and for their regular columns on topics, such as gardening, eating out, show business gossip and astrology. Together with other means of communication, such as radio, television and magazines, newspapers form the media. Printed forms of the media, including newspapers and magazines, are also called “the press”.

Newspapers treat the news in two different ways. They can take a serious approach which aims at informing the readers as fully as possible. Alternatively they may take a more popular approach which requires more entertainment in the choice and presentation of stories, more photographs and larger eye-catching headlines. Many newspapers combine the serious and the popular approach, but in the United Kingdom newspapers tend to be either one thing or the other.

Both serious and popular newspapers can be further divided into daily or weekly (depending on how often they are published), morning or evening (depending on when they are published) and local, national or, in a very few cases, international (depending on the area over which they are sold).

Newspapers of general interest are supplemented by specialist newspapers, which publish news and stories for people with particular interests. Religious, financial and sporting newspapers are examples.

The British are believed to be the greatest newspaper readers in the world. They read newspapers at breakfast, on the bus or on the train when they go to work and on the way back home. A symbol of the British Press is Fleet Street — a street in London that used to be home of most British national newspapers. Fleet Street is conveniently situated on the north bank of the river Thames close to a number of large railway stations, which makes it easy to deliver the papers to the trains taking them round the country. Fleet Street is also not far from such important British institutions as the Bank of England, the Stock Exchange, the Houses of Parliament and the Law Courts, which allows the Fleet Street journalists to keep an eye on things.

THE TIMES

The Daily Telegraph FT FINANCIAL TIMES

The INDEPENDENT theguardian

DAILY EXPRESS THE Sun

British daily papers are published from Monday to Saturday. The serious or quality papers such as the Times, the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Independent and the Daily Telegraph are for those who want to know about important happenings everywhere, both domestic news and foreign news. Compared with Russian papers, British quality papers are very thick. They usually consist of separate sections such as Politics, Finances, Business, etc. It’s not uncommon for a newspaper reader to use only one or two sections and throw the others away.

Popular papers or tabloids, such as the Daily Mail, the Sun or the Daily Express make a much easier reading and have a more general readership. Many popular papers run strip cartoons and humorous drawings, a lot of gossip, and readers’ letters. They have a woman’s page, and readers’ letters.

Nearly all papers pay special attention to sports news. The evening papers, such as the London Evening Standard are often bought because people want to know the winner of a race or the result of football pools.

The Sunday papers are not Sunday editions of the daily papers but separate weekly editions coming out on Sundays. In addition to the news they usually provide interesting articles on arts, newly published books and gardening. Some of them, such as the Sunday Times, have a very high reputation, and the best critics and journalists write for them.

Решение.

Решение 2.

A. Прослушайте текст «Пресса в Британии и в других странах» (№ 33) и выберите правильные варианты.

Ответ:

1. a) for various reasons (по разным причинам)

2. a) Printed forms of the media (Печатные средства массовой информации)

3. b) In the United Kingdom (В Соединенном Королевстве)

4. b) local, national and international (местные, национальные и международные)

5. a) Fleet Street (Флит-стрит)

6. b) tabloids (таблоиды)

B. Прочитайте текст «Пресса в Британии и в других странах» и скажите, что пропущено в этих парах.

Ответ:

1) Mass Media: — the press, — radio, television and magazines (Массовая информация: — пресса, — радио, телевидение и журналы)

2) Newspapers: — daily, — weekly (Газеты: — ежедневные, — еженедельные)

3) Newspapers: — morning, — evening (Газеты: — утренние, — вечерние)

4) Newspapers: — local, — national and international (Газеты: — местные, — национальные и международные)

5) Newspapers: — Sunday, — daily / evening (Газеты: — воскресные, — ежедневные / вечерние)

6) Newspapers: — quality (serious), — popular (tabloids) (Газеты: — качественные (серьезные), — популярные (таблоиды))

7) Newspapers: — general interest, — specialist (Газеты: — общие, — специализированные)