1. East or West, home is best.
2. A man without a house is a bird without a nest.
3. Theres no place like home.
4. Home is where the heart is.
5. Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.
6. He who goes abroad an ass will return an ass.
7. Men make houses, women make homes.
8. A womans work is never done.
9. He who wishes to be comfortable will stay at home.
10. Charity begins at home.
Ex. 30. You work for an estate agent and you had to look over a house your company is going to sell. Now you must write a report for your boss.
Type: semi-detached, detached, cottage, flat etc.
Style: traditional, modern
Location: centrally located, isolated, remote, peacefulness
Size: big, small, medium sized
Features: garage, garden, view, close/far to public transport, central heating
Price: cheap, expensive, reasonable
Suggested points to cover
To: Mr J Smith
From: Mr Paul Jones
Subject: Proposed sale of house at 7, Apple Street
Regarding the sale of house at 7, Apple Street I have to report the following
Good points: semi-detached, big enough for 3 people, centrally located, modern, garage or parking area, improvements by the current owner, good view etc.
Bad points: no central heating, situated on a main traffic route, noisy neighbourhood, not close to the underground, part of the house needs repair, garden neglected etc.
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THE PRESS
ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY
Types of newspapers: the quality press, the popular press, popular newspapers/ tabloid newspapers (tabloids), quality newspapers, a national n., a regional n., a provincial/ local n., a daily, a weekly, a monthly, a publication, a supplement.
Parts of the newspaper: Sections: Home /National news, International news, regional news, politics, financial news, business news, Law Reports, the editorial, horoscope, strip cartoons, crossword, small ads, sports reports, results service, scandal, a letter page (in reply to smth that was in the paper); obituaries, share prices, announcements, programme listing, a review, a column, a forecast, pin-ups; headlines.
Types of articles:
1. straight news article,hard news
2. feature articles (about fashion or social trends), soft news,human interest stories, personal observation, second-day news stories, background articles, analyses of trends, entertaining and educational descriptions
3. opinion articles: editorials, columns, reviews, comments
Additional Vocabulary
A copy of, an issue, today's issue, yesterday's issue, to be issued,
audience/readership,
editor, sub-editor, news editor, a reporter (news-gatherer), a columnist, a reviewer,
to write regularly for the press, to review (smth) for a newspaper
to print, with large print,
to circulate, a circulation, a total/ daily circulation,
to subscribe (to), subscription,
to present/ to picture/ to feature/ to cover / to treat news (serious news / events/ developments, a story)
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to follow the (current) events/ developments at home and abroad, national/ international affairs,
to give wide (full) coverage to (of), give full attention to, to follow closely,
to give (devote) some (a lot of, little) space to, to be cut (back)/ to be given less space,
to focus on, to be concerned with, to carry out investigation, to provide eye-witness description, to be newsworthy
to produce, to print, to publish, to edit,
to inform the readers of, to provide the readers with (some material, details, data, facts), to influence the readers opinion,
to be addressed to/ to be intended for/ to be meant for /
to come out, to clip, to distribute, to deliver, to have smth delivered to sbs house,
to be twice the size of/ to be half the size of,
to profess, to describe in a colourful way, to describe in detail, to interpret the story, to offer smbs interpretation,
to flavour the story, to report on smb, an uncommon situation,
a context of a future/recent event
to describe lifestyles, to lead convincingly, to lead to an opinion, to lead to judgment,
to offer a solution to a problem
take up one vertical column
to be accompanied by a photograph
to tell about the contents
to make judgment about smth
Miscellaneous: an informative article, news flash, the topic of the day, to be of topical interest, to give priority to smth, priority number one, the background of the event, fact-finding interview, formal interview, to conduct an interview, simple outline, the style is clear-cut, the language is free from slang, Fleet Street, educational, dull and biased, in a sensational manner, shiny paper, a photography magazine, the press is entertaining/serious/heavy, to censor, intrusive/offensive, investigative, privacy, to arouse comments, screaming headline, to come to a conclusion, to bring smth into focus, to reflect and interpret events, to pin-point, to raise a question, to take up smth (a question, a case, a point, a problem), the front page news, comment column, the most prominent topic.
A popular or tabloid newspaper focuses more on sensation than real news whereas a quality newspaper professes to be more interested in real news than in sensation. A tabloid usually has a smaller format than a quality paper, it has larger headlines and shorter stories and, in Britain, it prefers stories about film stars, violent crimes and the royal family.
A journal is the name usually given to an academic magazine.
A coloursupplement is a magazine which comes out once a week (often on Sundays) as an addition to a newspaper.
Acomic is a magazine, usually for children or teenagers, with lots of picture stories and/or cartoons.
EXERCISES
Ex.1. Which words go together? Tick the box.
Newspaper, magazine, section, supplement
Evening, daily, monthly, Sunday, Fashion, tabloid, quality, business
