Write one word in each gap please do not over your examination

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A. Complete using the correct form of the words in the box.

1   John Sanders, MP, ………………… any involvement in the scandal when asked about it yesterday.

2   The politician ………………… to say more when questioned by reporters this morning.

3   Johnny Depp rarely ………………… invitations to do interviews.

4   Johnny Depp ………………… to appear at a press conference to promote his latest film.

5   Did you see the newspaper ………………… this morning?

6   If you give every paragraph of your report a …………………, it’ll be easier to read.

7   Living Today has got a special ………………… this month on healthy diets. There are interviews with nutritionists, menus, recipes, and loads of other things too.

8   There’s an interesting ………………… in the paper about the Constitution of the European Union.

9   I generally trust what I hear on the news, but rarely believe anything I read in the ………………… .

10   The ………………… involve print journalism, TV, radio and even electronic forms of communication such as the Internet.

11   We interrupt this programme to bring you an urgent ………………… .

12   And we’ll be back with our regular ………………… at seven o’clock.

Answers

1 denied   2 refused   3 accepts   4 (has) agreed

5 headline(s)   6 heading   7 feature   8 article

9 press   10 media   11 newsflash   12 bulletin

B. Circle the correct word or phrase.

1   It’s a great computer programme / program once you get the hang of it.

2   I hate tabloid / broadsheet newspapers; they’re just full of gossip, scandal and lies!

3   As a journalist / columnist for a local paper, you don’t have to interview people or attend events. You just have to express your opinions about the issues of the day.

4   There’s a great talk / quiz / game show on BBC1 tonight. Contestants have to race through a supermarket as quickly as they can, filling up their trolleys as they go.

5   On some TV channels, an announcer / a commentator tells you what the next programme is going to be.

6   Join us at half past nine for a live broadcast / channel of the State Opening of Parliament.

Answers

1 program   2 tabloid   3 columnist

4 game   5 an announcer   6 broadcast

C. Write on word in each gap.

1   Please do not ……………… over your examination papers until you are instructed to do so.

2   I had to ……………… in so many forms. It took me hours!

3   I’d like everyone here to ……………… forward as many suggestions as possible.

4   There was a guy in the street ……………… out free tickets to that new quiz show.

5   He ……………… out that he’d worked in children’s TV, but in fact he’s never been near a TV studio!

6   Could you ……………… up her number in the phone book?

7   She ……………… out as one of the finest contemporary British novelists around at the moment.

Answers

1 turn   2 fill   3 put   4 handing/giving

5 made   6 look   7 stands

D. Complete each second sentence using the word given, so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence. Write between two and five words in each gap.

1   Her latest bestseller was published last month.   out

      Her latest bestseller …………………………………… last month.

2   That story’s not true, is it?   up

      You ……………………………………, didn’t you?

3   The programme starts at half past six.   on

      The programme …………………………………… at half past six.

4   The documentary didn’t really explore why the rainforests are being cut down.   into

      The documentary didn’t really …………………………………… why the rainforests are being cut down.

5   I had a quick look at the magazine in the dentist’s waiting room.   through

      I …………………………………… in the dentist’s waiting room

6   I don’t think we need to mention that now.   up

      I don’t think we need to …………………………………… now.

7   Your lies don’t fool me!   through

      I can …………………………………… your lies!

Answers

1 came out/ was brought out

2 made that story up/ made up that story

3 comes on/ is on

4 go into

5 flicked through the magazine

6 bring that up

7 see through

E. Choose the correct answer.

1   It’s not always easy to ………… the difference between fact and opinion.

        A make         B do

        C say             D tell

2   The debate will ………… place tonight.

        A be              B have

        C take           D make

3   In my …………, freedom of the press must be maintained.

        A mind          B view

        C sight          D thought

4   Media mogul Ronald Morduck has ………… control of another tabloid.

        A made         B found

        C give            D taken

5   They ………… a description of the robber on CrimeTime and it sounded like you!

        A made         B told

        C said            D gave

6   J.K. Rowling has ………… an enormous influence on children’s literature.

        A had            B given

        C done          D set

7   I could spend hours ………… the Internet!

        A surfing      B diving

        C sailing        D swimming

8   They said ………… the news that the price of petrol is going up again.

        A from          B in

        C on              D at

9   The issue ………… question is more complex than you think.

        A from          B in

        C on              D at

10   Watch ………… for words like ‘so-called’ in articles as they express the writer’s bias.

        A about        B around

        C over           D out

Answers

1 D   2 C   3 B   4 D   5 D   6 A

7 A   8 C   9 B   10 D

F. Each of the words in bold is incorrect. Rewrite them correctly.

1   He’s been described by several critics for our greatest living poet. ………………

2   I think you’ve confused tabloids by broadsheets. ………………

3   Do you believe about telepathy? ………………

4   There’s no point of trying to get an interview with him. He never does interviews! ………………

5   According from this report, scientists have discovered a new planet. ………………

6   The facts in this article don’t correspond about my own experience at all. ………………

Answers

1 as   2 with   3 in    4 in    5 to   6 with

G. Water has damaged part of this text about an announcement. Read it and decide what you think each of the original words was. Write the words in the blank spaces.

The announcement

The editor sent an e-mail (1) …………… every journalist on the news desk announcing (2) …………… there would be an emergency editorial meeting at one o’clock. I had heard (3) …………… the problems the paper was facing and I heard (4) …………… one of my colleagues that the paper might be going to close. Whatever it was, it was likely (5) …………… be bad news. At the meeting, the editor told us (6) …………… to tell anyone else yet, but the paper had been taken over by Ronald Morduck. He said he had only been informed (7) …………… the decision that morning. We were all so surprised (8) …………… the news that nobody knew what to say. I made a comment (9) …………… a colleague that it was time to start looking for a new job. The editor heard this, and finally managed to persuade us not (10) …………… quit until we had seen what changes would be made.

Answers

1 to   2 that   3 about   4 from    5 to

6 not   7 of/about   8 by/at   9 to   10 to

H. Complete the sentences by changing the form of the word in capitals when this necessary.

1   Why do press photographers think they can turn up at a celebrity’s house completely …………………. (ANNOUNCE)?

2   How many means of …………………. (COMMUNICATE) do you use on a regular basis?

3   Could you write an …………………. (EDIT) for the next issue of the school magazine?

4   You have to have a sense of …………………. (HUMOUR) to work on children’s TV!

5   There’s an …………………. (WRITE) rule on tabloid newspapers that the truth always takes second place to a good story.

6   When Jill was at …………………. (SECOND) school she used to dream of being a DJ on local radio.

7   Are you thinking of a career in …………………. (JOURNAL)?

8   You don’t actually get a lot of …………………. (INFORM) from a news report on radio or TV.

Answers

1 unannounced   2 communication   3 editorial

4 humour   5 unwritten   6 secondary

7 journalism   8 information

I. Complete the text by changing the form of the word in capitals.

Politics on TV

I love watching (1) …………………. (DISCUSS) programmes, and I love politics, so you’d think I’d enjoy watching (2) …………………. (POLITICS) being interviewed on TV. But I don’t. All too often, (3) …………………. (JOURNAL) ask them the most (4) …………………. (RIDICULE) questions, and, when they do get an interesting question, I sit there watching in (5) …………………. (BELIEVE) as some of the most (6) …………………. (POWER) people in the country give totally (7) …………………. (CONVINCE) responses. It’s as if they don’t care whether their reply is (8) …………………. (BELIEVE) or not. Often, they’re very poor (9) …………………. (COMMUNICATE), and they’re frequently even more (10) …………………. (INFORM) about key issues than I am. I don’t expect them to be particularly (11) …………………. (HUMOUR) – they are serious people, after all – but at least they could say something interesting occasionally. It makes me want to stand for election myself!

Answers

1 discussion   2 politicians   3 journalists   4 ridiculous

5 disbelief   6 powerful   7 unconvincing   8 believable

9 communicators   10 uninformed   11 humorous

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Television

Television in our life.
Television is now one of the most important mass media. It plays a great role in our life today.
The idea of machine ABLE TO BROADCAST BOTH SOUND AND vision goes bark to 1875. But only in 1926 a Scottish engineer turned the idea into practical reality. John Logier Baird produced the first TV pictures just 8 years after the WW1.Soon his original system was improved and in 1936 Britain’s first regular TV programme went on air.
In 60’s and 70‘s TV started to satisfy the public desires, not just for entertainment, but also for rapid accurate information.
We can hardly imagine our life without television. It offers the viewers several programmes on different channels to satisfy all tastes. It’s convenient source of information as it informs us about current affairs and latest developments and achievements in science and technology both in our country and abroad. It also broadcasts meetings between famous people in various walks of life.
You can also get a lot of useful information from a great number of educational programmes, which are very helpful and interesting for children and grown-ups. By watching programmes dealing with animals and birds and all kinds of living things in their natural surroundings, about the unusual pnenomena on our planet…we widen our knowledge of different subjects and the world around us.
TV is a convenient source of entertainment too. You watch your favourite sport games, hear symphony
concerts, operas, popular melodies, we hear talks on archeology, history, we hear critics talking
about new books, films, plays, works of art, we hear living poets reading their own poems.
So , television informs, educates and entertains us.

TV programmes: nature films, quiz shows, news and current affairs, soap operas, commercials ,
travel films, comedies, sport, educational programmes, sitcoms, weather forecasts, chat shows,
detective stories, game shows, cartoons.

Useful phrases: making( shooting) a film in a studio and making (shooting) a film on location
Turn switch on, turn switch off, turn switch to,
Turn up, turn down, turn over, an aerial and a satellite dish, sub-titling and dubbing.

Exercise1 Television on trial.
Use A, B or C in each space
Once again, television is the —— of a national debate –this time about the effect on young people of seeing violence and sex on their TV screens According to a ——published yesterday, the number of complains about television shows has—- from 2,000 to 15,000 in just one year! What lies behind this dramatic increase? It seems that the thinking that makes— most angry is the fact that violent or sexual images are often shown during the early evening, when children are not yet in bed. Channel 6’s “News World” was recently criticized because it showed images of a plane…. In which 350 people were killed. On that occasion, hundreds of furious parents called in to say that images were completely unsuitable for the early evening, and that their .

The media

Topic vocabulary in contrast

deny /refuseb
talk show / quiz show / game show

press /media

agree /accept

announcer / commentator

programme / program

headline /heading

tabloid / broadsheet

channel / broadcast

feature /article

journalist /columnist

bulletin / newsflash

Phrasal verbs

bring up start discussing a subject

look up try to find information in a book or list, etc

come on start to be broadcast

make out pretend that sth is true; see, hear or understand sb or sth with difficulty

come out be published

make up invent an explanation, excuse, etc; create a story,
poem, etc

put forward suggest

fill in add information in the spaces on a document

flick through turn and look at the pages of a magazine, etc quickly

see through recognise that sth is not true and not be tricked by it

go into deal with sth in detai

stand out be easy to see because of being different

hand out give things to people in a group

turn over turn a page so that the other side is towards you

control
in control (of sth); take control (of sth); under control; under the control of sb; out of control

description
give a description of sth/sb

difference
make a difference (to sth/sb); tell the difference (between); there’s no/some/little/etc difference between

granted
take sth/sb for granted

influence
influence sth/sb; have/be an influence on sth/sb

Internet
on the Internet; over the Internet; surf the Internet

news
in the news; on the news; hear the news; newsflash; newspaper

place
take place; in place of; at a place

question
ask/answer a question; question sth/sb; in question; question mark

view
have/hold/take a view; be sb’s view that; in my view; in view of; look at/see the view; view of sth; view from sth/swh

watch
watch sth/sb; watch (out) for sth/sb; keep watch

according to sb
inform sb that; inform sb about/of sth

likely to do; likely that
announce sth (to sb); announce that

believe sth; believe in sth; believe that; believe to be

persuade sb to do; persuade sb that; persuade sb of sth

point (in) doing
comment on sth; make a comment (to sb) about sth

send sb sth; send sth (to sb)
confuse sth/sb with sth/sb; confused about/by sth

correspond with sth/sb
surprise by surprise; surprised at/by sth

describe sth/sb as; describe sth/sb to sb

tell sb sth;tell sb that;tell sb about sth/doing;tell sb (not) to do

hear sth/sb; hear about sth/sb; hear from sb

announce announcement, (un)announced
belief disbelief, believe, (un)believable, (un)believably

communicate communication, (un)communicative, communicator

humour humorous, humourless
inform information, (un)informed, (un)informative

power powerful(ly), powerless(ly), empower
ridicule ridiculous(ly), ridiculousness
second secondly, secondary

convince convinced, (un)convincing

journal journalist, journalism, journalistic

write writer, writing, wrote, (un)written

politics political(ly), politician
discuss discussion

Topic vocabulary in contrast

Complete using the correct form of the words .
1John Sanders, MP, ……………………. any involvement in the scandal when asked about it
yesterday. deny,refuse
2The politician …… to say more when questioned by reporters this morning.
deny,refuse
3 Johnny Depp rarely……………………. invitations to do interviews.agree,accept
4 Johnny Depp ……………………. to appear at a press conference to promote his latest film.agree,accept
5 Did you see the newspaper……………………. this morning?headihg,headline
6 If you give every paragraph of your report a ………………, it’ll be easier to read.headihg,headline
7 Living Today has got a special……………………. this month on healthy diets.There are
interviews with nutritionists, menus, recipes, and loads of other things too. feature, article
8 There’s an interesting ……………. in the paper about the Constitution of the
European Union. feature, article
9 I generally trust what I hear on the news, but rarely believe anything I read in the press, media
10 The ……………………. involve print journalism,TV, radio and even electronic forms of
communication such as the Internet.press, media
11 We interrupt this programme to bring you an urgent……… .bulletin, newflash
12 And we’ll be back with our regular……….. at seven o’clock.bulletin, newflash

Circle the correct word or phrase.

1 It’s a great computer programme / program once you get the hang of it.
2 I hate tabloid /broadsheet newspapers; they’re just full of gossip, scandal and lies!
3 As a journalist / columnist for a local paper,you don’t have to interview people or attend ‘ events.
You just have to express your opinions about the issues of the day.
4 There’s a great talk / quiz / game show on BBC1 tonight. Contestants have to race through a supermarket
as quickly as they can, filling up their trolleys as they go.
5 On some TV channels, an announcer / a commentator tells you what the next programme ‘ is going to be.
6 Join us at half past nine for a live broadcast / channel of the State Opening of Parliament..

Phrasal verbs

Write one word in each gap.
1 Please do not……………………. over your examination papers until you are instructed to do so.
2 I had to ……………………. in so many forms. It took me hours!
3 I’d like everyone here to ……………………. forward as many suggestions as possible.
4 There was a guy in the street……………………. out free tickets to that new quiz show.
5 He ……………………. out that he’d worked in children’s TV, but in fact he’s never been near a TV
studio!
6 Could you ……………………. up her number in the phone book?
7 She ……………………. out as one of the finest contemporary British novelists around at the
moment.

Fasion

Fashion
What is fashion? Well, It’s the way of dressing or behaving that is usual or popular at a certain time.
Every fashion goes through three stages: at first it is different, it may be new and exciting, shocking and surprising.
Then it becomes popular, and the original idea is limited. Finally it becomes boring and out of date as a new
fashion starts.
Being fashionable says something about you. It means that you know what is smart, and suggests that you up to date
in other ways. Some changes have been practical and reflect the different way that we live. Today fashion is a big industry.
When fashion shock, it is usually more than clothes that are changing. In the 1920s people were shocked when women cut their hair short, and wore short skirts. At this time more women began to work outside the home and started to wear trousers.
Later in the 1970s many young people shocked and frightened the older generation. They cut their own hair and styled it themselves using everything to make their hair stiff: sugar, toothpaste, butter, oil, glue, soap, orange, juice, and even egg. The clothes were also DIY and young people spent hours tearing their jeans and jackets and creating the new look with pins, studs, bicycles clips. They were punks and followed their own fashion and style. By 1977 punk music ( loud, fast, tuneless, which shocked with violent lyrics) was at the top of the hit parade and the punk’ look was high fashion.
At the beginning of the 20th century, very young girls and boys wore dresses and long hair. Teenagers dressed like adults/
The big change started in the late 1050s when teenagers adopted blue jeans and T-shirts. Fashion became colourful and exciting, changed fast.
In the 1990s many adults copied the bright tracksuits and trainers their children wore.
Do you want to know the secret of being well-dressed? Here is some practical advice.
When you buy clothes, go in for simple, well-cut suits and dresses that will look right for almost any occasion. Concentrate on styles that are not expensive but elegant and remember that the keynote of all good dress-making is simplicity.
An extra dress is a perennial ‘must’ with woman. The short evening dress is a much better than the long one and it can look quite as glamorous.
As for shoes, you may like comfort, but it’s a pity to ally that beloved old pair of shoes of yours to your smartest suit.
Always try to team up a coat, skirt or dress with a plain classical type shoes but not ‘ dressy’ shoe.
The effect of a beautiful dress will be spoiled by the wrong bag and still worse by untidy or bulging bag, avoid unnecessary buckles, bows and all sorts of fancy work on your bag.
Remember that the clothes in which you feel happy are always the most successful clothes.
Remember that Enemy Number One both to chic and charm is untidiness. You can get away with an unfashionable dress but down-at-hell shoes, grub, by-looking gloves, collar or cuffs, a creased skirt completely ruin the effect of a model dress no mother/ how expensive it may be.
Follow the advice and you’ll always be in style, i.e .causing admiration by being fashionable

Fashion and design

I Topic vocabulary in contrast

put on /wear

cloth /clothing

look /appearance

costume / suit

blouse /top

supply /produce

dye /paint

design / manufacture

glimpse /glance

fit / suit / match

current / new / modern

average / everyday

Phrasal verbs

line up get/put into lines

catch on become popular or fashionable

do away with get rid of

pop in(to) visit quickly or for a short time

draw up create (plans, etc)

show (a)round take sb on a tour of a place

dress up put on fancy or unusual clothes

take off remove (a piece of clothing)

tear up rip into pieces

go over repeat or think about again in order to understand completely_____________

grow out of develop from; become too big for

try on put on (a piece of clothing) to see how it looks and whether it fits

hand down give sth valuable to your children or grandchildren, usually when you die_______

wear out become old and unusable
Phrases and collocations

art
work of art; modern art; art gallery; art exhibition

clothes
put on/try on/wear/take off clothes; clothes line; clothes peg; best clothes

combination
in combination with; combination of

compliment
pay sb a compliment; compliment sb on sth

example
be/set an example; an example of; for example; follow an/sb’s example

fashion
in fashion; be/go out of fashion; follow fashion; fashion model/show

hair
cut/brush sb’s hair; have/get a new hairdo/hairstyle; have a haircut; let your hair down

make-up
put on/apply/wear/take off make-up

pattern
follow a pattern; a checked/striped/plain pattern

style
in style; be/go out of style; do sth/go somewhere in style; have style

taste
have/show good/bad taste (in sth); in good/bad taste

tendency
have a tendency to do

trend
a trend in sth; follow/set a trend

Word patterns

advise sb to do; advise sb that; advise sb on/about sth; advise (sb) against sth/doing______________

proud of sth/sb/doing; proud to do

refer to sth; refer sb to sth
anxious about sth/doing; anxious to do

seem to be; it seems that
criticise sb (for sth/doing)

stare at sth/sb
insist on sth/doing; insist that

plenty of sth; plenty more sth; plenty to do

use sth (for sth/doing); use sth to do

prepare (sb) for sth; prepare to do

useful for sth/doing; useful to sb

Word formation!

advertise advertisement, ad(vert), advertising, advertiser

enthuse (un)enthusiastic(ally), enthusiasm, enthusiast

similar dissimilar(ly), similarity

attract (un)attractive(ly), attraction

expect (un)expected(ly), expectation, expectancy_______________

style (un)stylish(ly), stylist, stylishness________

beauty beautiful(ly)
fashion (un)fashionable, (un)fashionably

succeed success, (un)successful(ly)

decide decision, (in)decisive(ly), undecided

like alike, dislike, unlike, likeness,
(un)likeable, liking __

use usage, useful(ly), useless(ly), user, (un)usable

desire (un)desirable
produce product, producer, production, (un)productive(ly)

Education and Learning

Phrasal verbs

Catch on – understand – понимать, усваивать

Come (a)round (to) – be persuaded to change your mind (about) – менять мнение

Cross out – draw a line through something written – вычеркивать

Dawn on – if something dawns on you, you realize it for the first time – приходить в голову, осенить

Deal with – cope with, handle – иметь дело, улаживать

Drop out (of) – leave school, etc before you have finished a course – выбывать

Get at – try to express – иметь в виду, подразумевать

Get on with – continue doing – продолжать

Give in – stop making an effort to achieve something difficult – поддаваться, сдаваться

Keep up with – stay at the same level as – быть на одном уровне

Sail through – do something or deal with something very easily – успешно справиться

Set out – explain, describe or arrange something in a clear and detailed way – излагать

Think over – consider – обдумывать

1. Write one word in each gap.

1. Just get _____ with Exercise 1 and I’ll be back in a minute.
2. My teacher says that I should sail ____ the exam, but I’m not sure.
3. Dave didn’t understand what Miss Smith was getting ___, so he asked her to explain it again.
4. We all tried to convince our teacher to change  his mind about the school trip and he finally came ____.
5. If you make a mistake, just cross it ____ with a single line.
6. Belinda missed a few months of school because of illness and found it difficult to keep ____ with her classmates.
7. The other kids were making fun of me, but I didn’t  catch ____ until I heard them laughing.

1. Complete each second sentence using the word given so that it has a similar meaning to the first sentence. Write between two and five words in each gap.

SET

1. The ideas in your essay need to be organized better.

You need to ________________________ in your essay better.

OVER

1. Why don’t you consider the college’s offer for a few days and then call them?

Why don’t you __________________ for a few days and then call them?

IN

1. You’ll never pass the exam if you just stop trying like that.

You’ll never pass the exam if you just ____________________ like that.

DEAL

1. When he was at university, Nick just couldn’t handle all the work.

Nick just couldn’t ___________________________at university.

DAWNED

1. I suddenly realized that I had left my homework at home.

It _____________________ that I had left my homework at home.

OUT

1. Ed was very lonely an university and he left after only one month.

Ed __________________ after only one month because he was very lonely.

1. Complete the sentences.

1. It took her a while to _________ to the idea.
2. I think it’s difficult to ____________ the best students in my group.
3. He __________ the reasons for his decision in his report.
4. I’ll _________ that problem tomorrow.
5. Be quiet and __________ your work!

Keys – Ответы:

Ex. I.

1. on
2. through
3. at
4. around
5. out
6. up
7. on  

Ex. II.

1. set out the ideas
2. think the college’s offer over
3. give in
4. deal with all the work
5. suddenly dawned on me
6. dropped out of university

Ex. III.

1. Come around
2. Keep up with
3. Set out
4. Deal with
5. Get on with