PHONETIC EXERCISES

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]

LEXICAL EXERCISES

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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