Task 1. Match the words and their definitions (соотнесите слова и их определения). There are 4 extra words, which you do not need to use (4 слова лишних).
1. a comedy
2. a crime story
3. a western
4. politics
5. a cartoon
6. a viewer
7. a soap opera
8. a nature programme
9. the news
10. a chat show
11. weather forecast
12. a religious programme
a) It is a factual film about animals and plants.
b) This programme is about the latest events in the world and in your country.
c) This kind of film is about police and crime.
d) This film tells us a story about cowboys.
e) It is the information about temperature, wind, rain, sun and so on.
f) This programme is an informal talk with famous people.
g) It is a serial about family life.
h) It is a kind of film which makes people laugh.
Task 2. Complete these sentences using the correct form of one of the word from list under the line.
1. Television shows society.
2. The Internet our lives.
3. The most negative of the Internet might be addiction to it.
4. Though the Internet has already revolutionized the way we live and work, these are
early days for the Internet.
5. A lot of firms buy the time to advertise their goods.
6. Don`t believe all the you hear on TV.
Effect, affect, avoid, gossip, confidential, violent, still, contemporary, since, society, commercial, hate
Task 3. 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.
In Britain there are 12 national (1) newspapers DAY
and most people read one of (2) every day. THEY
Daily newspapers are (3) on every day PUBLISH
of the week except Sunday. Sunday newspapers are
(4) than daily newspapers. All the Sunday LARGE
newspapers are (5) . Most national news- NATION
papers in Britain express a (6) opinion, POLITICS
most of them right-wing, and people (7) the CHOICE
newspaper that they read according to (8) own THEY
political (9) . BELIEVE
1. a comedy - h) It is a kind of film which makes people laugh.
2. a crime story - c) This kind of film is about police and crime.
3. a western - d) This film tells us a story about cowboys.
4. politics - b) This programme is about the latest events in the world and in your country.
5. a cartoon - This word does not have a definition.
6. a viewer - This word does not have a definition.
7. a soap opera - g) It is a serial about family life.
8. a nature programme - a) It is a factual film about animals and plants.
9. the news - b) This programme is about the latest events in the world and in your country.
10. a chat show - f) This programme is an informal talk with famous people.
11. weather forecast - e) It is the information about temperature, wind, rain, sun and so on.
12. a religious programme - This word does not have a definition.
Task 2:
1. Television shows affect society.
2. The Internet affects our lives.
3. The most negative effect of the Internet might be addiction to it.
4. Though the Internet has already revolutionized the way we live and work, these are still early days for the Internet.
5. A lot of commercial firms buy the time to advertise their goods.
6. Don't believe all the gossip you hear on TV.
Task 3:
1. newspapers - daily
2. every - they
3. on - published
4. than - larger
5. national - newspapers
6. opinion - political
7. choose - based on
8. their - own
9. beliefs - political