Name: _____________________ Surname__________________ Form :___ Class: ___ N.:___ Evaluation: ____________ Teacher Signature: __________Parents’ Signature: _____________ Obs.: I Read the text very carefully. The Importance Of Radio Radio plays a major role in many listeners’ lives. There are listeners that don’t know what they listen to and don’t care much but most of the people talk about “their” station as if it was an integral part of their everyday lives, even a “close friend”. Radio is a source of companionship, energy and intellectual stimulation; at the same time, it is a source of relaxation and escape. The results of a survey about the importance of radio say that 21 per cent of the people consider radio “absolutely essential”; 70 per cent “important” in different areas and only 9 per cent consider radio “not at all important”. Radio is especially important to wome n. Radio can also reach communities at the very end of the development road – people who live in areas with no phones and no electricity. Radio reaches people who can’t read or write. Even in very poor communities, radio penetration is vast. There are more than 800 million radios in third world countries. An average of one in ten people has a radio. These people need practical information, they don’t have internet access, they don’t have regular access to telephone, so the only choice is radio. So, we can agree with the statement: If we couldn’t listen to radio, we could feel something very important was missing from our life. (adapted) Produced by: Brígida Sousa http://pwp.netcabo.pt/brisousa/ Powered by: www.livredoponto.wordpress.com
C. Match these words taken from the text with their equivalent or
explanation.
1. ____ don’t care (lines 2,3) a. a thing from which something comes 2. ____ integral (line 4) b. usual 3. ____ source (line 5) c. not worried 4. ____ relaxation (line 7) d. essential 5. ____ reach (line 12) e. a way of resting and enjoying yourself 6. ____ regular (line 17) f. get to
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A. On the right there are words related to newspapers and journalism. On the left are the meanings of these words. Can you match the items on the left and right?
1. ____ a person who writes for a paper
2. ____ a newspaper with small pages, short articles and lots of photos
3. ____ a newspaper with large pages and long, quite serious articles
4. ____ a story in only one newspaper
5. ____ the title of a news story
6. ____ the person who is in charge of a newspaper
7. ____ an article which gives the opinion of the editor
8. ____ a piece of writing in a newspaper
9. ____ the way that a newspaper reports a story
a. headline
b. quality paper
c. editorial
d. journalist
e. tabloid
f. article
g. exclusive story
h. coverage
i. editor
B. Match the correct programme names with the corresponding pictures.
5. Three listeners won these CDs. ________________________________________________________________
B. Fill in the blanks with the PRESENT PERFECT of the verbs in brackets.
1. They ________________________ (have) the same television for years.
2. What ________________________ (you / do) to my radio? Are you crazy?
3. She ________________________ (never / be) to a concert.
4. We __________________________ (just / finish) our first news coverage.
5. My editor ___________________________ (already / read) my article and she
loved it.
6. Patrick _________________________ (not / buy) the CD you mentioned yet.
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C. Fill in the table with the corresponding time expressions.
the day he was born
four days last Saturday a week Monday
twenty-five minutes
2000 yesterday ages three
months a long time
the day before yesterday
I met her a year we got married
For Since
IV Do you like watching TV? How many hours a day do you watch TV? What programmes do you like? Why? What types of programmes don’t you watch? Why not? What does your family do if different members want to watch different programmes? _____________________________________________________________________
