Стр.84 Unit 10 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 8 класс
10 The media Read, listen and talk about the media. Practise the Passive. Focus on taking part in a conversation; listening for gist.
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10 The media
Read, listen and talk about the media.
Practise the Passive.
Focus on taking part in a conversation; listening for gist.
Write a letter to a magazine.
GRAMMAR AND SPEAKING
1 In pairs, look at the photo and answer the questions.
What sort of newspapers or magazines are the people reading?
What daily newspapers do you read?
Do you read sports/gossip/fashion/computer/ music magazines? How often do you read them?
2 In groups, do the quiz ‘Mad about media’.
Mad about media?
Try our quiz and see how much you know ...
1Newspapers are read by 1 billion people in the world every day.
a 100 million
b 300 million
с 1 billion
2 The five most popular newspapers in the world are all sold in the same country – which one?
a Japan
b China
c the USA
3 The printing press was invented by Johann Gutenberg in 1447.
a 1447
b 1503
c 1655
4 When were the first photographs printed in a newspaper?
a 1880
b 1920
c 1965
5 Which of these international magazines has been published for the longest time?
a Newsweek
b Rolling Stone
c National Geographic
6 Which of the magazines in Question 5 is the most popular? (It is bought by about nine million people around the world.)
7 The Sun is the UK’s most popular daily newspaper. Every day it is bought by about _ people.
a 1.2 million
b 3.7 million
c 10.4 million
8 How many newspaper websites have been created since 1990?
a dozens
b hundreds
c thousands
Work it out
3 Match passive sentences 1-3 with active sentences a-c and choose the correct answer in the grammar rule.
Passive
1 The Sun is bought by about 3.7 million people every day.
2 The printing press was invented by Gutenberg in 1447.
3 Thousands of newspaper websites have been created since 1990.
Active
a Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1447
b People have created thousands of newspaper websites since 1990.
c 3.7 million people buy The Sun every day.
We use the Active/Passive when we are more interested in the action than the person who does it.