X. Answer the questions about your family and yourself

IX. Match expressions from list A with single word equivalents from list B.

1.	made to sell for profit	a.	effect
2.	from the time that	b.	affect
3.	influence	c.	avoid
4.	of the present time	d.	gossip
5.	to influence or change	e.	confidential
6.	even, yet	f.	violent
7.	to keep away from	g.	still
8.	to dislike greatly	h.	contemporary
9.	to talk about other people	i.	since
10.	intended to be treated as private	j.	society
11.	characterized by or acting with extremely rough physical force	k.	commercial
12.	all the people	l.	hate

1. Does your family subscribe to any newspaper or a magazine? If yes, which?

2. Do you and the members of your family read newspapers and magazines? Do they have any preferences?

3. Do your friends prefer to subscribe to a newspaper or a magazine or buy them in the news-stands / news agents?

4. If you read a newspaper or a magazine, do you begin from the very first page or fro your favourite section?

5. Do you like to read gossip in the celebrity column? Do you think that it is an intrusion into privacy?

6. What is your opinion about advertising in mass media? Do you like it? Is it necessary?

7. Some people say that they prefer not to watch TV or listen to the news programmes and not to read newspapers because they feel very many negative emotions afterwards? What is your opinion?

8. If you have a choice to watch TV, to listen to the radio, to read a book or a newspaper or a magazine, which would you prefer and why?

XI. Agree or disagree:

1. Television kills conversation. Does it?

2. TV makes people think and talk more. Is that true?

3. Comedies can have more influence on viewers. Can it?

4. TV is terribly bad for people’s eyes.

5. People get addicted to certain television series.

6. Children don’t get enough fresh air.

Now give your opinion about TV, its advantages and disadvantages in your short dialogues; try to use all words and phrases you’ve learned.

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