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7. Make up a sort siuation using the speech patterns.

1. What I really lacked was experience.

    What he suffered from was inferiority complex.

    What we need  is love and money.

2. The most powerful ideas are the ones you absorb indirectly.

    The most interesting books are the ones you haven't read yet.

    The most challenging roles are the ones the actor hasn't got yet.

3. Little did she guess what he had on his mind.

    Little did they realize why he was being so nice to them.

    Little did we know what the future had in store for us.

17. Answer the following questions and do the given assignment.

a) 1. How influential a part does the TV play in children's lives? Do recollections of TV programmes provide the most part of the majority of young people's childhood memories? 2. Why do you think people often refer to "the media" when talking about television? 3. Why do the electronic media tend to cause more problems than the print media? 4. Are the additional implications of the word "mass" accurate? 5. How do you think watching television can become addictive? 6. Comment on the meaning of "global village" and how it's  connected with the TV. 7. How is it known that some attitudes are absorbed indirectly from the television and then retained? 8. Does the television always achieve its intended predetermined response from its audience? Is it more successful than the other forms of media? 9. How independent are those people working for the television companies? 10. In the last sentence the pros and cons of television are put rather bluntly. Which outweigh the other?

b) The text under discussion is an essay, a short literary prose composition in which a subject is discussed in a personal manner. The word essay was coined by Montaigne, whose Essais (1580) are informal and intimate discussions. Behind the essay lie the traditions of oratory and debate. From them all essays inherit their persuasion techniques. The essay may usually be identified by certain characteristics of tone, language, and structure. Keeping all above mentioned in mind, study the text and providing illustrations from it discuss the main characteristics of the essay: 1) tone: personal and conversational or highbrow and formal; 2) language: informal and colloquial or official and stylized; 3) structure: loose, flexible or strictly and logically organized; 4)  lexical and syntactical devices aimed to persuade: repetition, parallel constructions, homogeneous members of the sentence, rhetorical questions, asyndeton, inversion.

What persuasion techniques does the author use?

12. Translate the following sentences into English using the phrases and word combinations:

1. Когда мне нужно принять какое-либо решение, я всегда сначала думаю о семье, а потом уже о карьере. 2. Они используют самое современное оборудование и вычислительные машины. 3. Это учреждение включает в себя функции издательства и типографии. 4. Эта рукопись восходит к XIII веку. 5. Учителя Англии жалуются на то, что им мало платят и к ним плохо относятся. 6. К сожалению, вас неверно информировали. 7. Сначала он был уверен, что сможет бросить курить, как только захочет, но потом понял, что он уже очень сильно пристрастился к сигаретам. 8. Закон вступил в действие в 1976 году. 9. За последние десять лет нашли и употребление многие термины, связанные с компьютерами и новыми технологиями. 10. Боюсь, что Ваше поведение выходит за рамки воспитанного человека.

13. Describe if the following sentences are true or false.

1. Television cannot be called a separate medium at it embraces functions of several media such as newspapers, megazines, movies and recordings. 2. The media influence you all through your lifetime and you can not get away from it. 3. Watching television is psycologically addictive. 4. TV commercials stimulate our motivation to buy and determine our choice of trade marks. 5. Luckily children get exposed to mass media at a very early age. 6. All young people growing up with the media learn from them much more than the adults wish them to. 7. Through television we absorb high standarda of performance by talented musicians and actors. 8. Though whole new vocabularies have come to existence with the new developments in the media, these are only terms familiar to specialists in the field. 9. The impact of the mass media is overestimated. Little does it change our vocabulary or influence our ideas and attitudes. 10. Most of the media's output is not only cheap but emotionally and intellectually harmful.

14. Finish the sentences in your own words.

1. If you answers parallel those of most young people, you add to the proof that ... 2. Parents and teachers agree that ... 3. An experiment recently conducted in Europe by the Society for Rational Psycology showed that ... 4. According to a recent research report ... 5. Before they are old enough for school ... 6. The most powerful ideas are the ones .... 7. Words introduced in the media frequently enlarge into .... 8. The impact of the mass media is very strong. It changes .... 9. Some adults, for that matter, either do not know or refuse to admit the following basic fact of media prduction:... 10. The owner's policies, therefore .... 11. Some of the media's output has...

15. Match the words on the left with the words on the right.

1 a television                                          a stuff

2 the most powerful                               b. our emotions

3. the print                                             c. output

4 psychologically                                  d. response

5 absorbed                                           e medium

6 popular                                              f commercial

7 a predetermined                               g addictive

8 stimulates                                         h ideas

9 the media's                                       i usage

10 superficial                                       j media

Write ten sentences incorporating these word combinations.