Task 1. Match the headings with the articles

IV. Additional tasks

III. Follow-up activities

1. You are participants of a panel discussion on the subject “Do we have the press we deserve?”. Choose your own part, e.g. chairman of the Press Council, an editor, a journalist working for a quality paper/tabloid, a famous politician/actor/sportsman harassed by reporters, a reader etc.

2. Conduct a mini-survey. You are to interview 10 people (chosen according to a certain principle) to find out about their reading habits. Present the results of your survey in class.

1. Whales have brains more complex than any species, including man

2. Jury disqualify Bay Bea: Britain go into lead

3. Pack up and go!

4. New bid to end hunger strikes

5. Missing links?

6. “What’s this, overtime?”

7. Now U.S. doctors slam civil defense

8. Small talk

9. The slim blue line

10. France rushes industry takeover

a. If half as much energy and enthusiasm were channelled into planning a holiday wardrobe as in planning the holiday itself much confusion would be happily avoided.

Packing puts even the most orderly of organisers into a panic. Each summer our fashion department is flooded with pleas for what to pack for readers who are accompanying their husbands on business trips to Europe, taking coach journeys

through the Alps or sabbatical to the Far East, and for the lucky few, planning far away cruises to the tropics.

b. Britain, who finished joint second behind the United States in yesterday’s third inshore race of the international series, took the team lead in the Admiral’s cup last night after the International Jury disqualified the American yacht Bay Bea.

c. The French government has overruled its own doubters and decided to act swiftly to nationalise industries as planned in President Mitterrand’s election programme – amounting to one fifth of French industry.

A three-stage programme to be unveiled in the national Assembly today by the Prime minister, Mr Mauroy, is expected to announce the takeover of banks (including extensive industrial holdings held by banks), armaments and steel in the autumn.

d. The government decided last night to send in a representative to the Maze prison in an attempt to end the IRA hunger strike.

An official from the Northern Ireland office is expected to read out to the prisoners a statement outlining terms for a solution.

e. They used to be the essential small accessory for the big businessman. But in the past few years, the price of pocket tape recorders has come down – and you’re now as likely to find one in a handbag or a trouser pocket as in the hand of a captain of industry. They are emerging from the business machine world to be used for shopping lists, interviews, telephone conversations – and even for listening to music.

f. More young policewomen are joining the fight against crime as growing numbers of men quit the force.

And if present recruitment trends continue eventually there could be more women officers than men, police chiefs were told yesterday.

g. They have been hunted to the brink of extinction to make mink food, margarine, cosmetics, fertilizer, whale steaks and lubricating oil.

There are cheap, plentiful substitutes for all whale products. But the massacre of the whales continues, led by Norway, Iceland, Spain and Japan. This year, more than 15,000 of these highly-intelligent marine mammals will suffer agonizing deaths as they are chased down at sea and blasted with massive harpoons.

h. Meet people in London with whom you have something in common. LINKUP offers a fresh approach to making friends in London by linking you with on going groups of members who share your interests.

LINKUP groups go out together in town and locally for meals/drinks/films/theatre/music/walks/swimming/Sunday brunches/parties etc., escape to the country or just meet at someone’s place for a coffee. Each group is different, of course, but the atmosphere is always informal and friendly.

i. “If the civil defense budget were in my hands, I would spend all $120 million on morphine,” says one American scientist who has studied the effects of nuclear war. “Civil defense money is worse than wasted now. It misleads. It may let people believe they can get away in a nuclear war. They can’t.”

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