Exercise 2 Answer the following questions

1. What is mass media? 2. What is the role of mass media? 3. What role does TV play in our life? 4. Is radio popular? 5. What is the newest kind of mass media? 6. What programmes can you watch on TV? 7. What are the advantages of mass media? 8. What are the disadvantages of mass media? 9. What is your favorite TV programme? 10. Do you use Internet in your everyday life?

Exercise 3 Translate and memorize the following expressions from the text

To be more valuable, to inform, to educate, to entertain, weekly and monthly newspapers and magazines, the most powerful kinds, to subscribe to, to give a great opportunity, political talk shows, to chat with, cartoons,educational programmes, talk shows, a great achievement, to depend upon the host's personality, hint of insincerity, people-in-power, advantages, disadvantages, apart from.

Exercise 4 Find synonyms among the following words.

Many, drawbacks, to search, to speak with, smart, a lot of, to enlarge, the greatest, wide range of, to look for, to decide, free time, to one’s mind, to solve, to widen, to talk to, it seems to smb., incorrect, clever, a great choice of, the biggest, leisure time, mistakes, wrong.

Exercise 5 Write a summary of the text, presenting the content of each paragraph in 2-3 sentences. Use the expressions:

The main idea of the text is... The text deals with one of the most important (urgent) issues... Much attention (consideration) is given to (classification, description)... It focuses on the matters of... The text gives an overview of... The text is mainly concerned with... The aim of the survey is to show (demonstrate, find)... Particular emphasis is given to the analysis of… The text gives a detailed analysis of (reports on)... To sum up... In conclusion...

Индивидуальное задание для студентов заочного отделения к курсу

«Английский язык»

Вариант № 13/1c

Exercise 1 Read the text and translate it in written form.