Ex 29. Learn the following sayings and proverbs by heart. Try to comment on them. Find Russian equivalents to them

1. East or West, home is best.

2. A man without a house is a bird without a nest.

3. There’s no place like home.

4. Home is where the heart is.

5. Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.

6. He who goes abroad an ass will return an ass.

7. Men make houses, women make homes.

8. A woman’s work is never done.

9. He who wishes to be comfortable will stay at home.

10. Charity begins at home.

Ex. 30. You work for an estate agent and you had to look over a house your company is going to sell. Now you must write a report for your boss.

Type:semi-detached, detached, cottage, flat etc.

Style: traditional, modern…

Location: centrally located, isolated, remote, peacefulness…

Size: big, small, medium –sized…

Features: garage, garden, view, close/far to public transport, central heating…

Price: cheap, expensive, reasonable…

Suggested points to cover

To: Mr J Smith

From: Mr Paul Jones

Subject: Proposed sale of house at 7, Apple Street

Regarding the sale of house at 7, Apple Street I have to report the following…

Good points: semi-detached, big enough for 3 people, centrally located, modern, garage or parking area, improvements by the current owner, good view etc.

Bad points:no central heating, situated on a main traffic route, noisy neighbourhood, not close to the underground, part of the house needs repair, garden neglected etc.

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THE PRESS

ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY

Types of newspapers: the quality press, the popular press, popular newspapers/ tabloid newspapers (tabloids), quality newspapers, a national n., a regional n., a provincial/ local n., a daily, a weekly, a monthly, a publication, a supplement.

Parts of the newspaper: Sections: Home /National news, International news, regional news, politics, financial news, business news, Law Reports, the editorial, horoscope, strip cartoons, crossword, small ads, sports reports, results service, scandal, a letter page (in reply to smth that was in the paper); obituaries, share prices, announcements, programme listing, a review, a column, a forecast, pin-ups; headlines.

Types of articles:

1. straight news article,hard news

2. feature articles (about fashion or social trends), soft news,human interest stories, personal observation , second-day news stories, background articles, analyses of trends , entertaining and educational descriptions

3. opinion articles:editorials , columns, reviews, comments

Additional Vocabulary

· A copy of, an issue, today's issue, yesterday's issue, to be issued,

· audience/readership,

· editor, sub-editor, news editor, a reporter (news-gatherer), a columnist, a reviewer,

· to write regularly for the press , to review (smth) for a newspaper

· to print, with large print,

· to circulate, a circulation, a total/ daily circulation,

· to subscribe (to), subscription,

· to present/ to picture/ to feature/ to cover / to treat news (serious news / events/ developments, a story)

· to follow the (current) events/ developments at home and abroad, national/ international affairs,

· to give wide (full) coverage to (of), give full attention to, to follow closely,

· to give (devote) some (a lot of, little) space to, to be cut (back)/ to be given less space,

· to focus on, to be concerned with, to carry out investigation, to provide eye-witness description, to be newsworthy

· to produce, to print, to publish, to edit,

· to inform the readers of, to provide the readers with (some material, details, data, facts), to influence the reader’s opinion,

· to be addressed to/ to be intended for/ to be meant for /

· to come out, to clip, to distribute, to deliver, to have smth delivered to sb’s house,

· to be twice the size of/ to be half the size of,

· to profess, to describe in a colourful way, to describe in detail , to interpret the story, to offer smb’s interpretation ,

· to flavour the story, to report on smb, an uncommon situation,

a context of a future/recent event

· to describe lifestyles, to lead convincingly, to lead to an opinion, to lead to judgment,

· to offer a solution to a problem

· take up one vertical column

· to be accompanied by a photograph

· to tell about the contents

· to make judgment about smth

Miscellaneous: an informative article, news flash, the topic of the day, to be of topical interest, to give priority to smth, priority number one, the background of the event, fact-finding interview, formal interview, to conduct an interview, simple outline, the style is clear-cut, the language is free from slang, Fleet Street, educational, dull and biased, in a sensational manner, shiny paper, a photography magazine, the press is entertaining/serious/heavy, to censor, intrusive/offensive, investigative, privacy, to arouse comments, screaming headline, to come to a conclusion, to bring smth into focus, to reflect and interpret events, to pin-point, to raise a question, to take up smth ( a question, a case, a point, a problem), the front page news, comment column, the most prominent topic.

A popular or tabloid newspaper focuses more on sensation than real news whereas a quality newspaper professes to be more interested in real news than in sensation. A tabloid usually has a smaller format than a quality paper, it has larger headlines and shorter stories and, in Britain, it prefers stories about film stars, violent crimes and the royal family.

A journal is the name usually given to an academic magazine.

A coloursupplement is a magazine which comes out once a week (often on Sundays) as an addition to a newspaper.

Acomic is a magazine, usually for children or teenagers, with lots of picture stories and/or cartoons.

EXERCISES

Ex.1. Which words go together? Tick the box.

Newspaper, magazine, section, supplement

Evening, daily, monthly, Sunday, Fashion, tabloid, quality, business