Exercises

1. Listen and read.

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1. I won't crow over a foe.

2. I don’t suppose you know Rose.

3. Oh, no, don’t go home alone.

4. No bones broken.

5. Don’t grow cold.

6. Follow your nose.

7. Nobody's home.

2. Read the quotations and opinions about the press and journalism. Do you agree with them? How do you understand these words.

• A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

Arthur Miller.

• Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice. Journalism what will be grasped at once.

C. Connolly.

- A free press can be good or bad, but without freedom it will never be anything but bad.

Albert Camus.

3. Topical vocabulary.

to inform – інформувати

to report –звітувати

daily –щоденний

weekly –щотижневий

monthly – щомісячний

to subscribe to –підписуватись

to issue –видавати

4. Answer the following questions.

2. What daily and weekly newspapers do you know?

3. Which of them do you read regularly?

4. What newspapers do you subscribe to? Why?

5. Do you think it is convenient to subscribe to newspapers and magazines?

6. Why do you think some people prefer to buy single issues?

7. Are you a regular reader of the press?

8. Can you get a lot of useful information from your favourite newspaper magazines?

9. How can you describe your favourite newspaper / magazine? ( modern, funny, truthful, objective, realistic, dull, boring, exciting, romantic, relaxing, old – fashioned, thrilling).

5. Name a newspaper or a magazine which you and your family read regularly. Say:

• Whether it is daily, weekly, or monthly publication;

• How large it is and how many pages it consists of;

• What it looks like;

• What kinds of readers it may be interesting to;

• What reputation this newspaper / magazine has.

6. Read the text and find out:

• the names of the first Ukrainian periodicals and the date of this birth;

• the names of the main national newspapers;

• the names of popular magazines;

• the number of editions in Ukraine.