Read extract from the constitution on the right on private life and mobility
Do you know the people in the pictures? What happened to them?
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1. Who are the people in the pictures?
2. How did paparazzi influence and keep on influencing on their life?
3. Why do they chase celebrities?
4. Do you agree that sometimes celebrities hire paparazzi to spotlight their life?
5. Are there any items in the constitution of KZ about paparazzi?
Read, translate the article and do the task.
The tragedy of Diana
voiced by Steve Rosenberg, BBC News
It has been an extraordinary week. Extraordinary, in part of course, because what happened in the early hours of Sunday morning in a road tunnel in Paris was a far from ordinary event, both given the people involved and the circumstances surrounding the crash. But above all the week has been extraordinary - and extraordinarily moving - because millions of people, especially in Britain but also all around the world, have been affected by this event and transfixed by it in a way few of them would have expected. Here in our tower above St James's, just up the street from Buckingham Palace and the Chapel Royal, in front of which crowds of people have queued and milled in order to sign the books of condolence, to leave flowers or simply to look and to think, we too have been surprised. Surprised at the popular response, and surprised at our own.
That is why the biggest of the many questions raised by the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, have to do with the magnitude and nature of the reaction. Why has it been so prolonged, so emotional and so widely shared? Why is it that people are so moved by her death, regardless, it seems, of whether in life they liked or loathed the princess or of whether indeed they had thought themselves indifferent to all her doings?
Some of the answers are so straightforward as to require little description and even less analysis: her youth, her glamour, the sheer ghastliness of the manner of her death, the way in which the well-publicised death of someone as famous as she can focus people's attention on death itself. Others, however, enter more complicated territory.
That territory begins with the nature of celebrity in a world of instant, or at least easy, communication. From the moment of her engagement to Prince Charles, Diana was famous. But she became more so as the years went on, despite the fact that her image soon saturated the world's screens and newsstands. You might expect that people would quickly tire of such an image, but they did not. In part, this was because fame breeds more fame; in part because she sought to put her celebrity to work in support of various good causes and indeed of her own self-esteem, and therefore nurtured it. But it was also because such a virtuous circle of celebrity can easily become a vicious one, since both the transmitters and the receivers of the images are as addicted to the bad as they are to the good.
Diana's ubiquity thus meant that she was an almost inescapable part of the lives of millions of people, whatever they thought of her or of the monarchy. But also the celebrity of her life was enhanced by the fact that it seemed to many to be a tragedy of the classical sort: ill-starred despite all its privileges, sliding into a marital collapse beset by depression and other mental illness, a struggle against the restraints and pomposities of the royal family, a vain battle for private romance amid the public gaze. The frailty she exposed contrasted poignantly with the perfection of her glamour; the popularity of her causes served to balance her well-known shortcomings. And then the affront or even guilt that many people felt about knowing more than they ever thought they wanted to about somebody else's troubles was wiped away by the tragedy's final act.
Vocabulary:
extraordinary – ерекше
circumstances – жағдай
above all – бәрінен бұрын
condolence – көңіл айту
magnitude – маңыздылық
prolonged – жалғаспалы
regardless – қарамастан
loathed – жек көрді
glamour – тартым
ghastliness - қорқыныш
celebrity – атақты, танымал
engagement – аттастыру рәсімі
despite – қарамастан
saturated – толтырды
newsstands – газет дүңгіршектері
breeds – тудырады
nurtured – ардақтады
virtuous – ізгілікті, рахымды
vicious – қатыгез, қатал
addicted – бейімді, тез беріледі ...
ubiquity – барлық жерге тұмсығын сұғу
ill-starred – бақытсыз
beset – еріп жүрушілер
pomposities – қоқаюшылық, дүрдиюшілік
vain – бекер, босқа
poignantly – өткір
perfection – мүлтіксіз, мінсіздік
affront – кемсіту
shortcomings – кемшіліктер
3. Answer the following questions:
1. What was peculiar in people's reaction to Diana's death?
2. From which moment of her life did Diana become famous?
3. What did Diana's ubiquity mean?
4. What usually happens to people whose images saturate world's screens?
5. Is it fair to say that the death of the Princess of Wales had an impact on public attitude to the Royal family? If it is - what kind of impact?
6. How would you evaluate the role the monarchy plays in the life of the British society nowadays?
4. Translate these sentences from Russian into English:
БАҚ назарын ханзада Чарльз бен Диананың некелесуіне аударды.
Бэкингэм сарайы көңіл айтқан мыңдаған телеграммалар алды.
Даңқ одан әрі даңқты арттырады.
Олардың некесі бұзылудан басқа жолы қалмады.
Кез-келген адамның қайырымды іспен қатар қайырымсыз істерге де қабілеті болады.