Make a project work: “An English-Speaking Country I would like to visit”.

 

Test yourself

English-speaking countries in questions

 

CANADA

 

1. What is the area of Canada?

2. Where is Canada situated?

3. What is Canada rich in?

4. What are the most important cities?

5. What are Canada’s largest ports?

6. What are the largest lakes in Canada?

7. What mountains are there in Canada?

8. What are the longest rivers?

9. What is the largest island in the north of Canada?

10. What kind of state is Canada?

11. What houses does the Federal Parliament consist of?

 

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

 

1. Where is the USA situated?

2. What mountains are there in the country?

3. What is situated between the Cordilleras and the Appalachian mountains?

4. What are the main rivers?

5. What kind of climate is there in the USA?

6. What is the population of the USA?

7. How many states are there in the USA?

8. What kind of state is the USA?

9. Who is the head of the state?

10. What is the capital of the USA?

11. What is the financial & business centre of the country?

12. When is Independence Day celebrated?

 

 

THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA

 

1. What is the official name of Australia?

2. What territories are there in the Commonwealth of Australia?

3. What is the capital of Australia?

4. In what hemisphere is Australia situated?

5. What is the population of Australia?

6. What are the biggest cities in Australia?

7. What agricultural product is Australia famous for?

8. What are the longest rivers?

9. What mountains are there in Australia?

10. What houses does the Federal Parliament consist of?

11. Who is formally the head of the state?

12. Who represents the Queen of England?

 

NEW ZEALAND

 

1. Where is New Zealand situated?

2. On which island are there many lakes?

3. What sea washes the western coast of New Zealand?

4. What is the highest mountainous range?

5. What is the national emblem of New Zealand?

6. What is the capital?

7. What are the main cities?

8. What is the nickname of New Zealand?

9. What is the population of New Zealand?

10. Who are the Maoris?

11. What houses does the Parliament consist of?

12. Who represents the Queen of England?

 

Read and translate the text. What are the two groups of British newspapers?

 

The British Press

 

There are dozens, often hundreds of different newspapers in every country: daily papers, national papers, local papers, evening papers, Sunday papers, free papers, etc.

Papers find stories from their own reporters or from international news agencies. There are two kinds of reporters – general and special. General reporters cover a wide range of news stories, including accidents, conferences, crimes, festivals, local politics, strikes and about one subject, as the arts, the environment, finance, the law, foreign affairs, the media, politics and sport. Journalists are expensive – especially foreign correspondents. Most newspapers can't afford to have their own reporters in every foreign capital. So, they get international news from news agencies. These are large organizations, which have reporters all over the world. Every day they collect information and then sell it to newspapers, TV and radio stations.

One of the biggest agencies is Reuters. It has about 900 reporters, working in 118 cities in 82 countries. Their stories (over 400 per day) are used by more than 1000 newspapers in 5 countries. The Press Association – the organization, which provides news about Britain to newspapers, radio and television stations in other countries and informs industry and the government of the news as it happens. There are other agencies: Agency France Press, United Press International and Associated Press.

Fleet Street in London used to be the home of most national daily and Sunday newspapers. People often said "Fleet Street" to mean "the press". But today the old image of London's Fleet Street as the centre of the newspaper printing and publishing world has changed. More national and regional daily newspapers are sold for every person in Britain than in most other developed countries. National newspapers have a total circulation of 14.2 mln on weekdays and 16.2 mln on Sundays. There are about 130 daily and Sunday newspapers, over 2000 weekly newspapers and some 7000 periodical publications. There are also more than 750 free distribution newspapers, mostly weekly and financed by advertising, and some 60 newspapers and magazines produced by members of the ethnic minorities.

There are 12 national morning daily papers: 5 qualities and 7 populars. Also there are 11 national Sunday ones.

Qualities and populars differ in style and content. The qualities are newspapers giving serious accounts of the news and report on business matters, industry, culture and society. They are large-sized. The populars, that are called "tabloids" because of their size, don't contain serious news, but has stories about famous people, sport, sex, scandalous aspects of life is Britain with lots of illustrations; political issues are explained in easily understandable language. Many newspapers are printed in colour, and a number of papers produce colour magazines as part of the Saturday and Sunday paper. They provide reading material about fashion, clothes, cooking, diet, the house and home, holidays, articles on travel, food.

Newspapers have an important effect on public opinion. The press is free to comment on matters of public interests, subject to law. There is no state control or censorship of the press, which caters for a variety of political views, interests and levels of education. Newspapers are almost always financially independent of any political parties. All the national newspapers use computer technology. One of the beneficial results of computerized production has been improved graphics and photographs. The tendency has been for newspapers to become smaller but to contain more pages.

 

7. Which of the statements are true? Prove your point of view.

 

1. “Tabloids” (popular) papers contain sensational stories.

2. Quality papers are more popular than tabloids.

3. Quality press covers national and international news.

4. “Tabloids” have short articles about less important events.

5. Quality papers use large colour headlines and many photographs.

 

Answer the questions.

 

1. Who writes for newspapers?
2. What are the sources of getting information and news?
3. What news agencies do you know?
4. What's the difference between 'qualities' and populars'?

5. Is the British one of the biggest newspaper – reading nations in the world?

 

 

 

РЕКОМЕНДАЦИИ ПО ВЫПОЛНЕНИЮ УСРС

 

УПРАВЛЯЕМАЯ САМОСТОЯТЕЛЬНАЯ РАБОТА № 1 на тему:

«ТЕКУЩИЕ СОБЫТИЯ СОЦИАЛЬНО-ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ЖИЗНИ В РЕСПУБЛИКЕ БЕЛАРУСЬ»

Рекомендуемая форма контроля: эссе.

 

Рекомендуемые инициативные темы для подготовки эссе:

1. The main directions of social and economic development of Belarus.

2. State power in the Republic of Belarus.

3. Public organizations in Belarus at the present stage.

4. The Republic of Belarus in the international arena.

5. Demographic policy in the Republic of Belarus.

6. Policy supporting talented young people in the Republic of Belarus.

7. The role of the mass media in Belarus at the present stage.

 

Перечень интернет ресурсов,

рекомендуемых студентам при подготовке к УСРС:

1. http://www.belarus.by/en/

2. http://www.belta.by/econom.nsf.

3. http://www.eurobelarus.info

4. http://www.government.by.

 

 

УПРАВЛЯЕМАЯ САМОСТОЯТЕЛЬНАЯ РАБОТА № 2 на тему:

«ТЕКУЩИЕ СОБЫТИЯ СОЦИАЛЬНО-ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ЖИЗНИ В СТРАНАХ ИЗУЧАЕМОГО ЯЗЫКА»

Рекомендуемая форма контроля: письменный отчет.

 

Рекомендуемые инициативные темы для подготовки письменного отчета:

1. The main directions of social and economic development of the English-speaking countries.

2. State power in English-speaking countries.

3. Public organizations in English-speaking countries at the present stage.

4. English-speaking countries in the international arena.

5. Demographic policy in English-speaking countries.

6. The role of the mass media in English-speaking countries at the present stage.

 

Перечень интернет ресурсов,

рекомендуемых студентам при подготовке к УСРС:

1. http://www.britanica.org;

2. http://www.globalenvision.org;

3. http:// www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com;

4. http://www.wikipedia.org.

 

Учебно-методическое пособие

 

Английский язык

Межличностное, социокультурное, социально-политическое общение

 

 

Ответственный за выпуск: Т.Е. Черновец

Компьютерная верстка: Т.Е. Черновец, Т.С. Гуринович

 

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