Приложение 1

В этом приложении я предлагаю задания для отработки газетной лексики и навыка работы с газетными заголовками.

Activity 1

Below are 18 typical extracts from different parts of a newspaper. Identify each one with one of the following words or phrases.

Obituary / Football report / Television preview
Headline / Horoscope / Crossword clues
Gossip column / Auction report / Weather forecast
Recipe / Court circular / Readers’ advice column
Caption / New car report / Parliamentary report
Editorial / Gardening tips / Travel and holidays
  1. Starting overcast with intermittent rain, followed by sunny spells. Max. temp 21۫۫c
  2. The word is that Clinton Ross, 32, playboy son of US steel billionaire Dwight Ross, has left his girlfriend, actress Lee-Ann Van Post, 26 and is now in Europe.
  3. Prince Edward (left) enjoys a joke with actor Sam Cool.
  4. PREMIER TO PROBE RIDDLE OF “SPIES IN MINISTRY”.
  5. He received a number of international literary awards, culminating in the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He leaves a widow and two sons.
  6. Today is a good day for doing business and a bad one for romance. Don’t take members of opposite sex too seriously today.
  7. Our front page today gives details of government’s new economic proposals.
  8. Mix two egg yolks with butter in a frying-pen over a low gas. Add sugar and then…
  9. A pair of silver George 11 candlesticks fetched £17,000. Bidding was slow for Victorian oil painting but a landscape by Somers went for £55,000.
  10. Yesterday at 7 p.m. Her Majesty gave a dinner-party at WindsorCastle for members of the Spanish Royal Family. At noon today Her Majesty will receive the new Ambassador of the Republic of Venezuela at BuckinghamPalace.
  11. Robin equalized with a header from five yards just before the half-time whistle.
  12. The chipset bucket-shop air-return to Hong Kong is now about £480 and Hong Kong is a good base to visit Macao, China and Taiwan. The best season is …
  13. ACROSS 1 kind of tree (5), 2 child (3), 4 performed (5) …
  14. Mr. Richard Caulder (West Hull, Labour) asked the Minister of Transport could inform MPs of train-fare concessions for pensioners. However, the Speaker declared that …
  15. Now is the time to plant roses. Put trees in at least 2́ apart …
  16. …but I don’t know if I can ever forgive him. What can I do? Desperately Unhappy, London N.W.
  17. A hard-hitting documentary series starts tonight at 10 p.m. Viewers might be shocked of …
  18. Road holding and fuel consumption are good but otherwise the performance lacks zip.

Activity 2

Change the headlines into the “normal” English:

  1. ARMY AXES 3 BASES 2,000 MEN
  2. BID TO REACH NORTH POLE FAILS
  3. HOTEL BLAST KILLS 8
  4. ANIMALS DIE INZOO BLAZE
  5. 3 SAVED IN FLATS BLAZE DRAMA
  6. ENVOY ACCUSED OF SPYING
  7. TOURISTS HIT BY PILOT’S STRIKE
  8. PM ANNOUNCES MARCH POLL
  9. POLICE PROBE MISSING WOMAN RIDDLE
  10. FILM STAR SEEKS DIVORCE
  11. AIR FARES SLASHED TO WOO HOLIDAY MAKERS
  12. ACTOR TO WED FOR FIFTH TIME

Activity 3

Match the headlines with the appropriate topic.

1. PM BACKS PEACE PLAN / a) marriage of famous actress
2. MP SPY DRAMA / b) royal jewels are stolen
3. SPACE PROBE FAILS / c) person who saw crime in danger
4.QUEEN’S GEMS RIDDLE / d) proposal to end the war
5. STAR WEDS / e) satellite is not launched
6. KEY WITNESS DEATH THREAT / f) politician sells secrets to enemy