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Exercises

What sort of W programmes do you think these would be?
1 Murder at the Match 4 The $10,000 Question
2 The Amazing Underwater World 5 Last Week in Parliament
3 World Cup Special 6 Hamlet from Stratford

Give the name of one programme you know in your country of each type listed in B.

Write definitions explaining what jobs each of these people involved in the media do?
Example: A make-up artist makes up the faces of people who are to appear on JV.
1 a foreign correspondent 6 a bookseller
2 a sub-editor 7 a publisher
3 a continuity person 8 a columnist
4 an editor 9 a camera operator
5 a librarian 10 a critic

5 3 -4 Fill in the gaps in the sentences below with the most appropriate word from the opposite
page.
1 He doesn't even get up from the sofa to change channels; he just presses the
................................. on the ..................................
2 You can hear BBC news ................................. all over the world.
3 A short wave or a VHF radio can ................................. many interesting stations.
4 Although our ................................. was expensive, we've taken some priceless film of
our children.
5 Children often prefer looking at ................................. to reading books.

3 5 Choose any newspaper (it could be in your own language if you can't find an English one)
and complete the following sentences.
1 The main story today is about .....................................................................................
. . .
2 The editorla1 is about .................................................................................................
3 There are readers' letters on page ................ and they deal with the following topics:
.................................................................................................................................
4 The most interesting feature is about ............................................................................
5 There is some scandal on page ................ , a crossword on page ................ , a cartoon on
page ................ and some small ads on page ................................................................
6 The most interesting business story is about ...................................................... and the
.
.
largest sports art~cle 1s about .......................................................................................
7 The most striking photograph shows ................................... .... ....................................
8 There are advertisements for ............................... ......... .............................................. ,
.................................................. and ........................................................................
9 An article about .................................................. on page ...................... made me feel

Look at the TV page of an English language paper andlor listen to the News on the BBC
World Service. Make a note of any other useful vocabulary on this theme.

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