Номер 1, страница 144, часть 2 - гдз по английскому языку 10 класс учебник Демченко, Юхнель

LESSON 5. Mass media of the UK: newspapers and magazines

Communicative area: reading and speaking in brief about UK’s newspapers and magazines

Active vocabulary: daily, weekly, broadsheet, tabloid, compact, journalistic, supplementary, subscribe to, subscriber, subscription, sensationalist, stablemate

Active grammar: the use of article with the names of newspapers and magazines

1. a. Read the following information and answer: What’s happening to the British press? Can you guess why?

Mass media of the United Kingdom consist of several different types of communication media: television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and the Internet.

The British press

The press is very important for people in the UK since they read a lot. It is a tradition to start a morning with a newspaper in your hands. A great amount of newspapers is issued and sold in Britain daily.

UK newspapers could be divided into more serious ['sɪərɪəs] newspapers, usually referred [rɪfɜːd] to as the broadsheets due to their large size, or as “the quality press”, and less serious newspapers, generally known as tabloids, or as “the popular press”, which focus more on celebrities and human interest stories rather than political or economic news. The tabloids in turn can be split into the more sensationalist mass market titles, or “red tops”, such as The Sun and The Mirror, and the middle-market papers, The Daily Express and The Daily Mail.

Both The Independent and The Times have changed in recent years to a compact format ['kɒmpækt'fɔːmæt], not much bigger than that used by tabloids. The Guardian moved in September 2005 to what is described as a “Berliner” format, slightly larger than a compact. Its Sunday stablemate The Observer has since followed the size.

Other Sunday broadsheets, including The Sunday Times, which tend to have a large amount of supplementary (additional) sections, have kept their larger sized format. The national Sunday titles usually have a different layout and style to their weekly sister papers, and are produced by separate journalistic and editorial staff.

All the major (main) UK newspapers currently have websites, some of which provide free access. The Times and The Sunday Times have a paywall requiring payment on a per-day or per-month basis for non-subscribers. The Financial Times business daily also has limited access for non-subscribers.

b. Look through the text again and guess the meaning of the words in bold. Check with the class.

Stablemate (n., count.) – a member of a group of people such as artists or sports players whose careers are managed by the same person or company.

Subscribe (to) (v., intrans.) [səbˈskraɪb] – to pay money so that you will regularly receive copies of a newspaper or magazine.

1. a. Прочитайте следующую информацию и ответьте: Что происходит с британской прессой? Можете ли вы предположить почему?

Ответ:

The British press is undergoing several changes. Newspapers are divided into serious "broadsheets" and less serious "tabloids". Some broadsheets, like The Independent and The Times, have changed in recent years to a "compact" format. Furthermore, all the major UK newspapers currently have websites. While some provide free access, others like The Times, The Sunday Times, and The Financial Times have introduced paywalls, requiring payment from non-subscribers for access.

Перевод:

Британская пресса претерпевает несколько изменений. Газеты делятся на серьезные «широкоформатные» (broadsheets) и менее серьезные «таблоиды». Некоторые широкоформатные газеты, такие как The Independent и The Times, в последние годы перешли на «компактный» формат. Кроме того, в настоящее время у всех основных британских газет есть веб-сайты. В то время как некоторые предоставляют бесплатный доступ, другие, такие как The Times, The Sunday Times и The Financial Times, ввели платный доступ (paywalls), требуя оплату за доступ от тех, кто не является подписчиком.