Средства массовой информации

1.

2.

1.a paper printed and sold usually daily or weekly with
news, advertisements etc.;
•Television
2.the process of sending and receiving messages
through the air; broadcasting programmes for people to
•Newspaper
•Tabloid
listen to;
3.broadcasting programmes (the news, plays,
advertisements, shows, etc.) for people to watch on
•Radio
their television sets;
•The Internet
and little serious news;
4.a newspaper with rather small pages, many pictures
5.a way to communicate with your partner who might
be a thousand miles away using the computer (e-mails).

3.

Read the text. Use the word given in capitals at the end of each
line to form a word that fits in the space in the same line.
daily
In Britain there are 12 national (1) ____________
newspapers
DAY
and most people read one of (2) ____________
every day.
them
THEY
published
Daily newspapers are (3) ________________
every day
PUBLISH
of the week except Sunday. Sunday newspapers are
(4) ___________
than daily newspapers. All the Sunday
larger
LARGE
national
newspapers are (5) ______________
. Most national news-
NATION
political
papers in Britain express a (6) ________________
opinion,
POLITICS
and people (7) _____________
the newspaper that they
choose
CHOICE
their
read according to (8) ___________
own political
THEY
beliefs
(9) _____________.
BELIEVE

4.

Pay attention to the words:
views – взгляды
spare - свободный
entertains – развлекает
annoys – раздражает
to interrupt – прерывать
to convince, to persuade – убеждать
scenes - сцены
fair – справедливо

5.

advantages and disadvantages –преимущ. и
недостаки
to keep people informed –информир.людей
to provide -обеспечивать
to be very harmful for eyes –вредн.глазам(зрению)
violent programs –насильств.программы
to make people violent –побужд.к насилию
violence -насилие
a vital problem –жизненно важный
advertisement -реклама
to become TV-addicted –зависим.от ТВ

6.

a) nature films
1) football, boxing, swimming
b) quiz shows
2) life of different countries
c) news
3) people try to win prizes by answering
questions
d) sport
4) advertisements for products
e) comedies
5) animals, fish, birds, plants, flowers
f) soap operas
6) information about what’s happening
in the world
g) travel films
7) jokes and funny situations
h) commercials
8) stories of the daily life of a family