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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 women.
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.
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A. Are these statements TRUE or FALSE? Correct the FALSE ones.

1. Most radio listeners don’t care about what they listen to. ___ _____________
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2. There are several advantages in listening to the radio. ___ ________________
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3. Twenty-three per cent of people consider radio extremely essential. ___ ____
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4. Radio plays an important role in poor countries. ___ _____________________
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5. Poor communities listen to the radio to get informed. ___ ________________
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B. Now answer the following questions.

1. What are the advantages in listening to the radio?

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2. Who is radio particularly important to?
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3. Where is it very important?
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4. Why is radio their only choice?
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5. Do you like listening to the radio? Why / why not?
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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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II
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 a. headline

2. ____ a newspaper with small pages, short articles
b. quality paper
and lots of photos
3. ____ a newspaper with large pages and long, quite c. editorial
serious articles
d. journalist
4. ____ a story in only one newspaper
e. tabloid
5. ____ the title of a news story
f. article
6. ____ the person who is in charge of a newspaper
g. exclusive story
7. ____ an article which gives the opinion of the editor
h. coverage
8. ____ a piece of writing in a newspaper
9. ____ the way that a newspaper reports a story i. editor

B. Match the correct programme names with the corresponding pictures.

documentary musical advertisement news interview weather forecast

love story cartoon thriller science fiction film comedy horror film

1. __________________ 2. ____________________ 3. ________________

4. __________________ 5. ____________________ 6. ________________

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7. __________________ 8. ____________________ 9. _________________

10. _________________ 11. ___________________ 12. ________________

III
A. Rewrite these sentences in the passive voice.
1. Radio plays a major role in many listeners’ lives.
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2. My sister bought a modern stereo.
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3. Reporters write news stories.
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4. Marconi invented radio.
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5. Three listeners won these CDs.
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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

four days last Saturday a week Monday
born
twenty-five three
2000 yesterday ages a long time
minutes months
the day before
I met her a year we got married
yesterday

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?

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UPS!

Are you
watching TV
again?

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