Underline one sentence in each letter which seems most important to you

9. Read the following dates:

• Example	15 October 1998 the fifteenth of October nineteen ninety eight
	1 November 1998
	17 October 1996
	1 May 1997
	1 January 1998

10. Complete the letters and write similar ones:

• According to our records payment .. has not yet been made. As an exception we specified... Our invoice has now been outstanding In the case of unsettled debts... take legal action. We would naturally prefer... In case you have lost... We look forward to...

• As you will remember from... difficulties with... This resulted in... outstanding accounts. We are extremely sony... affected... We are doing everything possible to .. Indeed we hope... in the very near future.

Unit forty seven

Mass media

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The British are a nation of newspaper readers. Many of them have a daily paper delivered to their home just in time for bieakfast.

British newspapers can be divided into two groups: quality and popular. Quality newspapers are more serious and cover home and foreign news thoughtfully while the popular newspapers like shocking, personal stories as well as some news. These two groups of newspapers can be distinguished easily because the quality papers are twice the size of the popular newspapers.

• Quality daily newspapers:

The Times

The Guardian

The Daily Telegraph

The Financial Times

The Independent

• Quality Sunday newspapers:

The Sunday Times

The Observer

The Sunday Telegraph

• Popular daily newspapers:

The News of the World

The People

The Mail on Sunday

The Sunday Mirror

The Sunday Express

British newspapers are often associated with Fleet Street, located in Westminster City of London. Fleet Street was the home of the nation's newspapers till the recent past. But not long ago practically all the newspapers moved their headquarters to Docklands, a newly developed business centre in the eastern part of London. Only two newspapers The Daily Express and The Daily Telegraph are still in Fleet Street. However, people still say 'Fleet Street' to mean 'the press'.

Watching television is one of the great British pastimes! Broadcasting in the United Kingdom is controlled by the British Broadcasting Corporation (ВВС) and the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA). The ВВС receives its income from the Government, but the private companies controlled by the IBA earn money from advertising. The ВВС has two TV channels. The IBA is responsible for looking after the regional independent TV companies who broadcast their own programmes and those they have bought from other regions.

National radio is controlled by the ВВС, and listeners can choose between four stations. There are many local stations, some private and some run by theВВС. Their programmes consist mainly of music and local news.

Words and expressions

mass media		средства массовой информации
paper = newspaper		газета
reader		читатель
daily
quality	[kwolItI]	ежедневная газета
serious		серьезный
thought	[Tþt]	мысль
thoughtful		внимательный
thoughtfully		внимательно
shock shocking		удар, потрясение скандальный
personal		личный
twice		дважды
they are twice the size		они вдвое больше по размеру
guardian	['g¸dj@n]	наставник
independent		независимый
observer		обозреватель
mirror		зеркало
headquarters	[,hed'kwþt@z]	штаб-квартира
press		пресса
television		телевидение
to watch		наблюдать
to watch television		смотреть телевизор
pastime		времяпрепровождение
to broadcast (broadcast,		передавать по радио/по
broadcast)		телевидению
authority	[þ'Tor@tI]	власти, администрация
income		ДОХОД
to look after		следить за, присматри
		вать за
region		регион
regional		региональный
to choose (chose, chosen)		выбирать
to run		управлять, руководить
to run a station		направлять деятельность
		радиостанции
to run a shop		владеть магазином