Lexical exercises

PHONETIC EXERCISES

VOCABULARY

Nouns

1. advertising – реклама
2. available receivers – доступный приемник
3. broadcasting – радиовещание
4. cable TV – кабельное телевидение
5. capacity – вместимость, мощность
6. commerce and public affairs – торговые(коммерческие) и общественные дела
7. cultural and educational program – культурно-развлекательная программа
8. current events – текущие события
9. definite profile –определенное очертание
10. delivery methods – методы доставки
11. detailed reviews – подробный обзор
12. entertainment – развлекательное мероприятие
13. frequencies available – рабочие частоты
14. individual style – индивидуальный стиль
15. mass media – средства массовой информации
16. satellite TV – спутниковое телевидение
17. spare time – свободное время
18. tabloids – бульварная газета
19. the views of establishment – виды заведений
20. TV channels – телевизионные каналы

Verbs and verbal phrases

1. to appeal – привлекать, притягивать
2. to attract large audience – привлекать большую аудиторию
3. to be accessible to – быть доступным, достижимым
4. to be owned by– принадлежать
5. to be very proud of one’s peculiarities – гордиться своими особенностями
6. to bring cultural and educational program – приносить культурную и образовательную программу
7. to choose anything – выбирать что-либо
8. to create public opinion – создавать общественное мнение
9. to develop the tastes – развивать вкусы
10. to entertain – развлекать
11. to erode – разрушать
12. to inform – информировать
13. to listen to the radio – слушать радио
14. to raise the cultural level – поднимать культурный уровень
15. to subscribe – подписываться

Exercise 1. Pronounce the following words correctly.

[۸] public, cultural, hundredth, agricultural, government

[ai] skyscrapers, inside, primary, style, subscribe

[ei] raise, educational, basically, entertainment, cable, nation, available

[כ:] more, sport, inform, important, broadcasting

[e] accessible

[aiə] entire, admiring

[∫] corporation, federation, station, discussion.

Exercise 2. Pronounce the titles of the newspapers correctly.

The Financial Times [fai’næn∫әl ‘taimz],

The Daily Mirror [‘deili ‘mirə]

The Times [taimz]

The Daily Mail [‘deili ‘meil]

The Guardian [‘ga:djən]

The Daily Star [‘deili ‘sta:]

The Daily Telegraph [‘deili ‘teligra:f]

The Sun [s۸n]

The Daily Express [‘deili iks’pres]

Exercise 1. Arrange the words in the alphabet order.

Inform, entertain, broadcasting, capacity, erode, subscribe, coverage, appeal, profile, frequency.

Exercise 2. Analyze the following words, define the parts of speech and translate the words into Russian.

Establishment, educational, advertising, subscriber, businessman, coverage.

Exercise 3. Make up pairs of synonyms.

Entertain, influence, create, spare, different, corporation, choose, raise.

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produce, various, select, increase, affect, reserve, interest, potbelly.

Exercise 4. Make up pairs of antonyms.

important, large, a lot of, sometimes

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little, always, unimportant, small

Exercise 5. Make up all types of questions to the following sentence.

Millions of people watch TV and read newspapers in their spare time.

Exercise 6. Give the Russian equivalents for the following.

Mass media, to influence the people, to attract large audience, advertising, to raise the cultural level, educational programmes, to develop tastes, current events, spare time.

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