Useful phrases (Personal news)
1) How exciting/annoying etc! “My car’s broken down again.” “How annoying!”
2) Oh, congratulations! “My wife’s just had a baby.” “Oh, congratulations!”
3) Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. “Shirley and I have split up.” “Oh, I’m sorry to hear that.”2
4) Oh no. That’s terrible! “I’ve failed all my exams.” “Oh no, that’s terrible!”
5) Well done! “I’ve passed all my exams.” “Well done!”
Supplementary Reading
1. Look at the title of the article below. How is it related to the people mentioned? What information do you expect to read?
Media Movers and Shakers
We all enjoy watching television, listening to the radio and reading newspapers and magazines. However; not many of us know about the lives of the people who changed the face of the media forever.
Lord Reith (1889-1971)
First Director-General, BBC
John Reith was born in Scotland and graduated as an engineer from Glasgow Technical College. After World War 1, Reith realised he had no real interest in engineering. In 1922, although he had no training in radio and knew nothing about broadcasting, he got a managerial job at the newly-establishedBBC. In 1927, he became the BBC's First Director- General and received a knighthood. Reith's vision of what the BBC should offer the public included broadcasting to people of all social classes, all over Britain, and using radio to serve educational and cultural interests. When he had succeeded in achieving this aim, Reith became determined to increase broadcasting overseas. In 1932, he started what would later become the BBC World Service, and began the world's first regular TV broadcasts in 1936. He left the BBC in 1938, and was made Lord Reith in 1940.
Gilbert H Grosvenor (1875-1966)
Editor-in-Chief, National Geographic Magazine
Gilbert H Grosvenor is famous as the editor who changed the National Geographic magazine into the dynamic publication that it is today. Born in Turkey, he later moved to the USA and attended Amherst College. He became the first full-time editor of the magazine in 1899, with the support of his future father-in-law, Alexander Graham Bell, who was president of the National Geographic Society. In its early years, National Geographic had a very low circulation. Grosvenor, who became editor-in-chief in 1903, added beautiful photographs and detailed maps to the magazine, and raised the circulation to over 2 million. Using money made from the magazine, the National Geographic Society has sponsored hundreds of scientific expeditions and projects.
John Walter (1739-1812)
Founder/Owner, The Times
John Walter was a London coal merchant, then an insurance underwriter, before starting his own printing company in 1783. Simply in order to promote this new business, he began to publish a daily paper, the Daily Universal Register, which mainly contained paid advertisements. His printing business was a disappointing failure, so Walter decided to make the paper more profitable by making it more popular. Renamed The Times on1st January 1788, it reported scandals involving famous London people, and for years most of its profits came from people who paid Walter not to print embarrassing stories about them! As years went by, Walter began to report more serious news, and started a foreign news service which later helped The Times become one of the world's most respected papers.
Exercises on the text
1. Scan the article and match the sentences to the people (A-C):
| A. Lord Reith | 1. He was born in Turkey, he later moved to the USA and attended Amherst College. |
| B. Gilbert H Grosvenor | 2. He decided to make the paper more profitable by making it more popular. |
| C. John Walter | 3. In 1932, he started what would later become the BBC World Service. |
2. Answer the questions: Which of the people ...
- have experience in radio production?
- studied at a college?
- was helped by a relative?
- made his living blackmailing people?
- increased sales?
- worked in various jobs before he started his own company?
- helped in scientific research?
- had problems at the beginning?
3. Fill in the correct words from the list and make up sentences using them:
• detailed • cultural • coal • managerial • low • daily • social • printing
1 ……………..job
2 ……………..classes
3 ……………..interests
4 ……………..circulation
5 ……………..maps
6 ……………..merchant
7 ……………..company
8 ……………..paper
4. Fill in with, in, to, then make up sentences using these phrases:
1. interest ………. smth;
2. to succeed ……. smth;
3. determined …….. ;
4. to move ………..a place;
5. …….. the support of.
Revision
1. Translate the sentences from Russian into English using the vocabulary of the unit:
1. Папарацци лезут из кожи вон, вторгаясь в частную жизнь звезд, чтобы разозлить их.
2. Снимки известной личности в нелестной и компрометирующей позе были напечатаны в бульварной газете.
3. Алек Болдвин был спровоцирован папарацци, который преследовал его всю дорогу. Он поставил синяк папарацци и был арестован, и обвинен в нападении, но позже отпущен.
4. Звезды находят свой способ отомстить, поскольку папарацци не оставляют их в покое.
5. Тома Круза преследовали на большой скорости в тоннеле Парижа, где погибла Принцесса Диана.
6. Журналисты ищут широкую аудиторию, проводят пресс конференции и делают официальные заявления.
7. Журналисты получают истории от групп давления и перехватывая источники информации.
8. Чем важнее история, тем больше места будет ей предоставлено в газете.
9. Каждая газета преподносит события со своей точки зрения.
10. Журналисты разных политических убеждений собирают истории, путем копания в грязном белье.
11. В «газетенках», желтой прессе и глянцевых журналах всегда есть сенсационные новости, которые получают много места на страницах.
12. Газету можно привлечь к суду за клевету, если она публикует лживые истории, которые наносят вред чьей-либо репутации.
13. Если вы проводите какое-либо исследование, вам понадобятся предыдущие выпуски газет, и вы составите папку вырезок из газет о данном событии.
14. Все материалы должны быть готовы к крайнему сроку.
Listening
1. Before listening to the article “Top Spam E-mail Sender Stays in Prison” talk with your partner(s) about the points below. Are they true? Rate them: 10 = very true, 1 = not at all true. Talk about the reasons for your scores. Change partners and share your findings:
1) e-mail can never harm us
2) children should not have e-mail accounts until they are 16
3) letters are better than e-mail
4) anyone who buys anything from an e-mail is stupid
5) spammers are worse than thieves
6) sending e-mail anonymously is totally OK
7) spammers should be jailed for damaging the economy
8) online crime will get worse in the future
2. Talk with your partner(s) about these e-mail problems. Agree on the three biggest and smallest. Change partners and share your findings:
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3. Student A strongly believes that sending spam e-mails isn’t a criminal offence; Student B strongly believes sending spam e-mails is a serious crime. Share all pros and cons of the statements with your partner.
4. Match the following synonyms from the article “Top Spam E-mail Sender Stays in Prison” you are going to listen to:
| 1) mass | a) reversed |
| 2) originally | b) fools |
| 3) overturned | c) wealth |
| 4) clogs | d) large-scale |
| 5) prosperity | e) imitation |
| 6) aliases | f) initially |
| 7) fake | g) forecast |
| 8) anonymously | h) blocks |
| 9) predict | i) false names |
| 10) tricks | j) secretly |
5. Match the phrases from the article “Top Spam E-mail Sender Stays in Prison” you are going to listen to. Sometimes more than one choice is possible. Listen and check if you were right:
| 1) sent a strong warning to anyone who | a) laws of free speech |
| 2) mass distribution | b) sentence overturned |
| 3) trying to get his prison | c) false Internet addresses |
| 4) his rights of | d) of junk e-mail |
| 5) the online revolution that is so critical | e) be one of the top ten |
| 6) thought to | f) sends spam e-mail |
| 7) He used aliases and | g) world’s e-mail is junk |
| 8) not protected under America’s | h) to economic prosperity |
| 9) anyone who sent out bulk mail | i) free speech |
| 10) Experts predict that up to 90% of the | j) anonymously |
6. Listen to the article “Top Spam E-mail Sender Stays in Prison”. Decide if the statements below are true (T) or false (F):
- A US court ruled a big-time e-mail spammer must stay in jail.
- The spammer will be released from prison in 2013.
- Forty three judges decided to keep the spammer in prison.
- Spam mail has a negative effect on the economy.
- The spammer used his own name in all of the mails he sent.
- The spammer sent as many as 10,000,000 mails every day.
- It could be that up to 90 per cent of all e-mails is spam.
- Spammers never try to get personal information and bank details.
7. Listen to the recording once again and reproduce how the words below were used in the article:
1) strong
2) originally
3) overturned
4) judges
5) historic
6) critical
7) false
8) earned
9) protected
10) dangerous
11) fight
12) tricks
8. After listening write five GOOD questions about e-mail in the table. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers: