- •Contents
- •Preface
- •Part I. Print media Unit 1 mass media: general notion
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •It’s wrong to portray fathers as domestic incompetents – but women still
- •Unit 2 newspaper headlines and their linguistic peculiarities
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •Unit 3 lexical features of newspaper articles
- •Names of some organisations, establishments, parties
- •Abbreviations
- •Acronyms
- •Neologisms
- •Colloquial words
- •Shortened words
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •Former Mandela Fund Official Says Model Gave Him Diamonds
- •The International Herald Tribune, August 6, 2010
- •A. Too many clichés, at the end of the day
- •B. Social class affects white pupils’ exam results more than those of ethnic minorities – study
- •C. Blair’s job was done by 1997: to numb Labour, and to enshrine Thatcherism
- •In Downing Street, Blair never fulfilled his early promise and let Brown in.
- •Question time in Oldham Data profiling is helping Oldham police analyse the work of its community support officers
- •Airport and station get walk-in nhs centres
- •People's peers take back seat in the Lords
- •Not off to uni? What an excellent idea...
- •VIII Welsh Assembly launches £44m learning grants
- •4. Three men jailed for rape in Oxford after victim sees film on mobile.
- •Unit 4 grammatical and syntactical properties of newspaper articles
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •Cronyism alert on plan for more people’s peers
- •Revealed: Queen’s dismay at Blair legacy
- •Victim / radiation / in £50m drugs / cancer / is denied
- •Unit 5 feature articles: essence, structure, lexical means, stylictic properties
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks Task 1. Read Article a and comment on its genre. What sphere of public life does it reflect? a. After 40 years, the terrorists turn to politics
- •In the East Belfast Mission hall, the uvf, uda and Red Hand Commando announced they had put weapons “beyond use”
- •С. A slice of Middle England Ruaridh Nicoll journeys in search of the perfect pork pie and finds himself seduced by the olde worlde charms of... Leicestershire
- •D. Gordon Brown: There is life after No 10
- •In his first major interview since losing the election, the former Prime Minister tells Christina Patterson why he’s thriving as a constituency mp – and happily living without the trappings of power
- •Unit 6 analytical genres of print media: editorial, op-ed, column, lte
- •I. Editorial
- •III. Сolumn
- •IV. Letters to the editor
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •How Not to Fight Colds
- •The New York Times, October 4, 2010
- •Clean and Open American Elections
- •It’s our class, not our colour, that screws us up
- •Task 12. Read the two ltEs below. What motive was behind writing those letters?
- •I. Giving an Edge to Children of Alumni
- •The New York Times, October 4, 2010
- •II. Childhood misery
- •Task 13. Read the two letters again, and observe the difference between them. What arguments does the author of first letter put forward to drive his message across?
- •Unit 7 print media: revision
- •Task 3. Read the article below and define its genre. What are the constituent parts of the text? House prices: Heading south
- •I was a terrible teenage drinker – I couldn't get hold of alcohol How do young people drink so much today? And how do they get served, asks Michael Deacon
- •Task 7. Read the article below and say what genre it is. Translate the italicised words and word combinations, analyse them. Twitter: Bad sports
- •Test 1. Print media
- •Variants 1-16.
- •Part II. Broadcast media Unit 8 learning to understand broadcast media texts
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •Unit 9 learning to differentiate broadcast media news and analytical genres
- •The press conference and the statement are an integral part of the live reporting and are not accompanied by the news presenter’s comments.
- •Fragments of the press-conference, the statement, as well as the parliamentary debate could be quoted in the video brief news, the report and the commentary that are part of the news bulletin.
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •Audio Track 6
- •Audio Track 7
- •Bonfire of the quangos? It’s more like a barbecue: Despite all the fanfare, just 29 will be completely abolished
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •A shot in the arm – поиск наркотика; стимул (перен.) a soft touch – обходительный человек; pie in the sky – журавль в небе, пустые посулы
- •He wants the Scottish government to give a shot in the arm to the tourist industry (Sky News)
- •A flop – unsuccessful film or play gazumping – cheating a potential buyer of a house
- •Nifty – very good or attractive (nifty fifties – «золотой возраст»)
- •Some examples of former slang words to booze – to drink alcohol
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •Unit 12 stylistic and syntactical peculiarities of broadcast media discourse
- •Control Questions
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •Hungarians battle to hold back toxic sludge spill from Danube
- •Vessel mishap
- •Test 2. Lexical and syntactical propertires of broadcast media discourse
- •Variants 1-16.
- •In class:
- •In class:
- •Unit 13 grammatical properties of broadcast media discourse
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •Uk’s official economic growth estimates revised down
- •Austerity won’t trigger double-dip recession, economists say
- •Ireland’s economic outlook worsens
- •Ireland’s economic outlook worsened on Monday as the country’s central bank
- •Unit 14 learning to work with broadcast media texts
- •Sun turns its back on Labour after 12 years of support
- •General election 2010: did it really happen?
- •The coalition government: Sweetening the pill
- •Test 3. Morphological properties of broadcast media discourse
- •Variants 1-16.
- •In class:
- •Unit 15 regional accents of british broadcast media (scottish, welsh, irish)
- •Control Questions
- •Practical Tasks
- •Unit 16 broadcast media: revision
- •Murder rate at lowest for 20 years
- •Rogue Trader at Société Générale Gets Jail Term
- •The Guardian, October 5, 2010 Task 9. Find special terms in the second half of the material (they are not marked). Read the piece again, find clichés and idioms in it.
- •Task 38. Read the article below and say what crime is reflected in it. What are its underlying reasons?
- •Sham marriages on “unprecedented scale”
- •Final test on mass media discourse
- •Variants 1-16.
- •In class:
- •In class:
- •References
- •Учимся понимать и интерпретировать медийные тексты на английском языке
Unit 14 learning to work with broadcast media texts
Task 1. Listen to Audio Track 14. Make use of the word box below.
a motion of no confidence to dissolve parliament Fianna Fáil
What genre is the material?
What aspect of politics does it reflect?
Task 2. Listen to the track again and transcribe it.
Task 3. Analyse the grammatical features of the lead.
a) Find a grammatical construction expressing a planned action.
b) Find an infinitive construction in the brief. What is its function in the sentence?
c) What sentences prevail in the brief – compound or complex?
d) What is the function of the -ing form in the last sentence?
Task 4. What are the Irish political parties, according to the brief?
What caused the political crisis in Éire?
Task 5. Watch Video 39. What new developments in Ireland’s political life it reflects compared with Audio Track 14?
Browse the Internet to see what the Taoiseach [‘ti:Sək] means.
Task 6. What are the English equivalents of the following Russian terms?
Watch Video 39 to find answers.
уйти в отставку (two terms) премьер-министр (ирл.)
партнеры по коалиции правящая партия
руководство страной протестное голосование
(Ирландия) голосует… всеобщие выборы
принять отставку министра вотум доверия
финансовая помощь
партия крайне правых взглядов
перестановка в кабинете министров
выставление кандидатуры на должность
выносить на обсуждение (вотум недоверия)
Task 7. Close the gaps in the sentences below and identify idioms and clichés in them.
Say what lexical and grammatical expressive means are used in the report.
Translate the sentences into Russian.
Facing the cameras, and …
Brian Cowen went … fighting.
He surrendered the …1… of his …2… party but he …3… …4… to the leadership of the country.
“I am concerned that …1… …2… criticism of my leadership of …3-4… …5-6… attention from these important debates.”
…1…, …2… everything …3… , and …4… discussed the matter with my family, I have decided …5… , to step …6… as leader of Fianna Fáil.
Ireland …1-2… to …3-4… on March 11.
“We want …1… to this government, …2… to this Taoiseach and …3… to allow the people decide on what formulation of new government.”
Opposition parties …1… now …2… he …3… as PM.
“If you want to step …1… , you must …3-2…”
10. “Because somebody has to pass that …1-2… “
11. “The country has become a …1-2… of Europe” .
12. …1… need of a multibillion euro …2… left its citizens disillusioned with politics.
13. Independent candidates and …1… parties like Sinn Fein …2… …3… on the protest vote.
14. …1… the election looming, the ruling Fianna Fáil party moved swiftly to …2… its leader…
15. This political sidestep marks the …1… of the …2… for the Taoiseach .
16. Critics say history will record him as the …1… man in the …2-3… at the …4-5…
Task 8. Study the words in the box below and listen to Audio Track 15. What is its idea?
What do you know about the Welsh Assembly (when it came into existence, its composition and legislative powers)?
law-making powers scrutiny / to be scrutinised
grassroots campaign opinion polls
Task 9. Listen to Audio Track 15 again and answer the questions.
1. What is True Wales? What does it campaign for?
2. What is the number of political parties in Wales?
3. What is the agenda of No campaign?
What is the common concern for both Yes and No camps?
Task 10. Transcribe the lead of Audio Track 15 and make its grammatical analysis.
Task 11. Make lexical and stylistic analysis of the track. What is the origin of the idiom used in the piece? Why is it used by the journalist?
Task 12. Listen to Audio Track 16. What genre is the piece? What is its idea? What is the link between a local government and a city council?
Task 13. What are the two grammatical constructions used in the brief that are typical of media discourse? Why are they employed in the brief?
Task 14. Listen to Audio Track 16 again and fill in the table below.
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County
Number of job losses
Total:
Task 15. Watch Video 40. What are the two peers accused of? Browse the Internet to see what the expenses scandal is.
Task 16.Transcribe Video 40 and make grammatical analysis of its first three sentences.
What is the prevailing syntactical structure of the sentences in the brief?
What type of sentences makes up the piece?
Task 17. Watch Video 41. What is the idea of the clip?
What is wrong with the party under scrutiny?
Task 18. Watch the clip again. What expressive grammatical and lexical means are used by the member of the panel (Simon Hughes, President of the Liberal Democratic Party, MP).
Find grammatical constructions typical of television discourse in the sentences below.
He …1-2… …3-4… till the autumn conference – …5-6… going to be the Labour Party …7…
I …1… think, there’s bigger question than G.Brown, …2…
Labour for … the second time in their history came behind us in share of the vote.
I think the Labour Party …1… beginning to realize …2-8…
They were founded for …1-3… a hundred years ago, …4… , to be …5-8… .
We are in …1-4… …5-8…
I thought …1-3… for the poor and …4-6… between …7-11…
For 11 years they haven’t done that …1-2…
I thought they were going to help …1-3… and not give advantages to the …4-6…
10. It’s the …1… well off who have …2-6… , and the low paid …7… …8… by the 10p.
11. …1… I think the Labour Party are …2… at risk of losing their …3… – Soleford, Hazels – areas used to be …4… Labour, not longer now.
12. I think, in the next 20 years we …1-4… – no longer as the …5-10…
Task 19. Watch Video 41 in class. Make consecutive translation into Russian of the sentences you hear in pauses.
Task 20. Watch the clip again and answer the questions.
What is the Labour Party origin?
What does the party stand for today?
What does the future hold for it?
Task 21. Read the newspaper article below.