Номер 11, страница 82 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс рабочая тетрадь Вербицкая, Уайт

Track nineteen.

Jan: And that was this week's number one. You're listening to Radio X. This is Jan Turner on Turner's Turning World, the phone-in where the listeners decide what we are going to talk about. We've got our first caller on the line. It's Hazel from Enfield. Hi there Hazel.

Hazel: Hi Jan.

Jan: Okay. Why have you called this morning, Hazel?

Hazel: Well, I wanted to talk about advertising on Kids TV. There are a lot of ads for toys and junk food and clothes. I don't think it's right.

Jan: Uh-huh. Why's that?

Hazel: Well, my two boys believe the advertisements, and they want everything they see. Then they ask me and ask me to buy junk food and the latest trainers. It's terrible. We don't have much money, but I have to buy expensive things for them.

Jan: So, your children see an advertisement and you have to buy things. I don't understand. Why do you have to buy expensive things for them?

Hazel: Because all their friends at school have them. And I don't want them to be different. If their friends have all the...

Jan: Excuse me, can I just say that it's a parent's job to say no sometimes and to sometimes turn off the TV. We've got our next caller on the line. Hi, is that Rupert?

Rupert: Yes, it is.

Jan: And what's your point, Rupert?

Rupert: I work in the advertising business and our research shows that children like adverts. The ads give the children information and they can use it when they spend their pocket money.

Jan: You can't be serious. The adverts are there because companies want to sell things. They are not to inform children.

Rupert: Yes, they are. The advertisers want to educate the kids who are...

Jan: I'd just like to say that I don't think many parents will agree with you. Ads are about selling, not education. If you're listening and you have an opinion on this or anything else, call me on zero two double zero, eight three seven four, eight seven three. Let's go to our next caller, Ian, who wants to talk about tabloid newspapers. What's your point, Ian?