1. Match the words with their definitions: Kinds of Mass Media:
1. An advert
2. A soap (opera)
3. Sport news
4. A talk show
4. A music programme
5. A weather forecast
6. The Internet
7. The Quiz
Definitions:
1. an announcement in a newspaper, on television, or on a poster about something such as a product, event, or job;
2. a statement saying what the weather will be like the next day or for the next few days;
3. a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide;
4. newly received or noteworthy information, esp. about recent or important sports events;
5. a television or radio drama serial dealing typically with daily events in the lives of the same group of characters;
6. TV or radio programme which broadcasts music;
7. a television or radio show in which famous people talk to each other in an informal way and are asked questions about different topics;
8. a form of game or mind sport in which the players (as individuals or in teams) attempt to answer questions correctly. In some countries, a quiz is also a brief assessment used in education and similar fields to measure growth in knowledge, abilities, and/or skills.
2. Write appropriate words into the text:
My elder brother Tom is a TV addict. He spends hours in front of a TV switching the (1) . He watches the news to be informed about (2) affairs and (3) shows to test his knowledge and intelligence. He claims that every TV programme has educational value. For Tom even a show, in which an interviewer talks to a well-known personality, provides a lot of useful information. Well, I think that he just loves gossip about the lives of (5) like Ronaldo or Claudia Schiffer.