Copy the table below into your notebooks.
Listen to the recording twice and complete the table. Listen to the details concerning the place of the action, its time and the people involved in the two news programmes. Take notes so as to expand each of the following news items. The first is done for you. a) the government’s economic policies are successful/ led to inefficient management and lower productivity. b) During the demonstration police … c) There was flooding in the South of the country. The local army units …. Damage … d) … has died … at his/her home in … e) News came in of a plane crash … f) And now the weather forecast. It will be …. The weekend …
Language Focus Listen to the recording again. Complete the following word combinations with verbs they go with in the news reports. 1. figures released today … 2. official sources … 3. economic policies … 4. industrial output … 5. prompt action … 6. news of a plane crash … 7. the fighting … 8. the Fantasian grotnic now … Contrastive stress. Copy the sentences given below. Listen to them and underline the words contrasted. 1. Democratic Fantasian Radio has a different political position from Free Fantasian Radio. 2. Free Fantasian Radio has a similar position to Free Fantasian Television. 3. Export figures are rising faster than import figures. 4. I’ve never met the president, but I’ve met the president’s wife. 5. I don’t usually vote in election, but this one’s important. 6. First reports referred to two aircraft, but it is now believed that three aircraft were involved. Give the English equivalents for the following Russian word combinations from the text of the recording. 1. возрасти на 60% за последние 12 месяцев (о средних доходах населения) 2. успешная экономическая политика 3. согласно данным полиции 4. были драки в течение всей демонстрации 5. снизиться до 3% 6. неотложные меры 7. разразиться начаться (о драке) 8. уменьшить размер ущерба; предотвратить серьезный ущерб 9. послать письмо с выражением соболезнования 10. поступить (о новостях) 11. подробности к настоящему моменту неизвестны 12. устойчивая солнечная погода 13. с температурой значительно выше 30 градусов 14. лидеры оппозиционной партии
Follow-Up Activity Reproduce the news broadcast. Lesson B. OUT-OF-CLASS LISTENING Text Title: News Broadcast Cassette: From Interchange 3, by J.Richards Pre-Listening Exercises Go over the words given below. They will help you understand the recording. phone booth [buùT „ buùD] - телефонная будка stock broker [ÈstkÇbr«Uk«] - биржевой маклер stock market - биржа fine - штрафовать 1.2. Copy the sentences below: 1. A man was fined yesterday for stealing an ambulance. 2. A woman was arrested in a public phone booth today. 3. A man who tried to break into a house on Friday got stuck in a chimney for fifty hours. 4. An airplane made an unexpected landing yesterday. 5. Two men were killed and six people hurt in a collision between a police car and a mini car yesterday.
Listening Exercises Listen to a news broadcast and put the sentences in the order they come in the recording (see ex. 1.2.). Some sentences were not mentioned in the recording. 2.2. Now listen to the news broadcast again and take notes to answer the questions: 1. Why did the plane make an emergency landing? Was anyone injured? 2. Why was the woman arrested? Why was she angry? 3. Why did the man steal the ambulance? Who stopped him?
2.3. Listen to each news story separately and give answers to the following questions: News Story 1 1. What was the number of the airplane? 2. What city did the plane leave yesterday? 3. Where did it fly? 4. When did the pilot turn the plane around and return it to the airport? 5. Who was born in a hospital?
News Story 2 1. How many calls had the man received in the last week? 2. How much money had the woman lost?
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