Fill in the blanks with appropriate prepositions

Match the adjectives with suitable nouns.

Match the words and their definitions.

Insert the following words in the sentences below.

Study the following words.

I. Vocabulary work

The Press

Unit 3

III. Follow-up activities

1. Agree or disagree: “You cannot succeed if you don’t know the right people”. You can refer to Danny’s case or you can speak about Becky, Robyn, Elinor or Alicia.

2. Work in pairs. Persuade your interlocutor that things shouldn’t be done “by half-measures”. Choose your part: a. Becky is speaking to Danny about his future career; b. Robyn is speaking to Becky about her New York wedding ceremony; c. Elinor is speaking to Becky about her wish to have a wedding ceremony in Oxshott.

3. (a) You are a student taking a cross-cultural studies course. You assignment is to compare British and American wedding ceremonies and preparations for them in terms of cultural peculiarities. Deliver the results of your findings to your class in the form of a report. (b) You are a friend of Becky’s and have attended both of her wedding ceremonies. Share your impressions of them explaining which variant you would rather choose if you were in Becky’s shoes.

Do We Have the Press We Deserve?

Salacious, voracious, sibling, delve, ogle, harrowing, hapless, flawed, crass, besmirch, jeopardize, hallmark, gloat, liaison, freelance, muckraking, discreet, harass, fraud, lowbrow, prurient.

hallmark gloat liaison freelance

muckraking discreet harass fraud

1. … is a working association or connection.

2. Those gossip columnists really enjoy ….

3. She got a two-year sentence for ….

4. The thief … over the stolen jewels.

5. I feel rather … by all the pressures at the office.

6. She does … translation work for several agencies.

7. It wasn’t very … of you to ring me up at the office.

8. Clear expression is a … of good writing.

flagging   raunchy pompous catch-all recount priggish scoop impetus

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characterized by excessive self-esteem or exaggerated dignity, pretentious exaggeratedly proper to top or outmaneuver (a competitor) obscene, lewd, vulgar to narrate the facts or particulars of an impulse declining, weakening something designed to cover a variety of situations or possibilities

front hapless ambitious voracious indelible posh freelance salacious prurient catch-all muckraking gloating salacious lowbrow

page interest reporting readers dailies press victim press interest neighbours reporters photographers stain law

1. We … readers are partly to blame … the low standards … which we complain.

2. We are spoiled … choice, though … practice people choose the paper that best reflects personal views.

3. If you can’t affect decisions made … you … high, why worry … them?

4. The question that arises … this theatre … cruelty is why a government that guards its own privacy so jealously … the Official Secrets Act gives its citizenry no legal right … privacy.

5. The editor protested that it would prevent him even … publishing that Mr Browne was … home … bed … a cold.

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