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Unit Two : English Around Us
Lesson 1
The language of newspapers and advertisements
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• matched newspaper reports and headings
• discussed the language of these reports and headings
• written headings for newspaper reports
• read two advertisements and answered comprehension questions based on them
• written a personal advertisement for an English Daily
A Match the following newspaper headings with a story.
Headings are
1. Lady of might gone forever
2. Beware batsme
3. Glowing tributes paid to lady of light
4. Oil Prices steady
5. Good news for cricket lovers
6. Overweight people more prone to heart attack
7. Obesity confines him to his house for 25 years
stories are
1. COLOMBO, Oct. 10: Srimavo Bandarnaikc, who 40 years ago became the world's first woman premier, died of a heart attack today after voting in parliamentary elections. She was 84, reports A P
2. NEW YORK Nov. 20: The cricket or baseball batsman who keeps his eye on the ball may not be doing the right thing after all, according to Nature Neuro-science magazine published in New York, reports DPA.
3. London, Oct. 10: An Englishman weighing 318 kilograms stepped outside his house for the first time in 25 years on Monday to pose for the cameras as friends cheered him. Reports DPA
In exercise A (1) what tenses have been used for the headings? Are the newspaper articles also in the same tense? (2) Rewrite the headings as full sentences.
B Now read the following reports and write appropriate headings for them.
1. BANGKOK, Nov. 7: Thailand's Public Health Ministry has warned against the use of cellular phones by children under 12 years of age, saying it could affect the development of their brains, reports AP.
2. DHAK.A, Oct. 28: To many there is a scary outlook for Dhaka city in several respects. Air pollution has reached such startlingly high levels that it has surpassed that of Mexico city and now has the most polluted air in the world, according to a seminar on environmental studies.
C From your reading of the articles in exercises A and B, answer the following questions.
1 How old was Bandaranaike when she became premier?
2 What are batsmen being made aware of?
3 Where did the obese man stay for 25 years?
4 Who could be most affected by the use of cellular phones? How?
5 What prospect about Dhaka city is scary for people?
D Read the following advertisements and answer the questions that follow.
CAREER opportunity
As a leading manufacturer and retailer of finest quality clothing, we invite applications for posts of sales persons who are good-looking, smart,
energetic and hard-working. Both male and female candidates are eligible.
Qualifications: O level/HSC
Fluent in English
If you are interested, apply with a recent
passport size photograph and CV by Dec. 20
Write to GPO Box no. 3560
We don't believe in failure! Do you?
No knowledge of computers! Don't worry! We are here to help you. We offer crash programs for those who really want to learn. Course starts every month. Scats limited, offered on first come first served basis.
You can find us at:
The International IT Institute
House no. 12, Road no/19, Dhanmondi, Dhaka
1 What sort of people arc the two advertisements aimed at?
2 What is the purpose of each advertisement?
3 Why didn't the first advertisers give their address?
4 Would you be interested in any one of the advertisements? If so, which one and why?
5 How do the advertisements directly address the public?
6 Is there any difference in the styles of the two?
7 What questions come to your mind when you read them?
E You want to be a private tutor for students up to class V. Write an appropriate advertisement to put in an English newspaper. Remember advertising in newspapers is expensive. So your advertisement should:
- be very brief
- contain all the information you think necessary
- say how you can be contacted
Focus:
Skills.
Intensive reading, writing. Functions.
Identifying different genres. Grammar/Structure.
Present simple. Vocabulary.
obesity, confine, prone, tribute, premier, surpassed.
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Unit Two : English Around Us
Lesson 1
The language of newspapers and advertisements
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• matched newspaper reports and headings
• discussed the language of these reports and headings
• written headings for newspaper reports
• read two advertisements and answered comprehension questions based on them
• written a personal advertisement for an English Daily
A Match the following newspaper headings with a story.
Headings are
1. Lady of might gone forever
2. Beware batsme
3. Glowing tributes paid to lady of light
4. Oil Prices steady
5. Good news for cricket lovers
6. Overweight people more prone to heart attack
7. Obesity confines him to his house for 25 years
stories are
1. COLOMBO, Oct. 10: Srimavo Bandarnaikc, who 40 years ago became the world's first woman premier, died of a heart attack today after voting in parliamentary elections. She was 84, reports A P
2. NEW YORK Nov. 20: The cricket or baseball batsman who keeps his eye on the ball may not be doing the right thing after all, according to Nature Neuro-science magazine published in New York, reports DPA.
3. London, Oct. 10: An Englishman weighing 318 kilograms stepped outside his house for the first time in 25 years on Monday to pose for the cameras as friends cheered him. Reports DPA
In exercise A (1) what tenses have been used for the headings? Are the newspaper articles also in the same tense? (2) Rewrite the headings as full sentences.
B Now read the following reports and write appropriate headings for them.
1. BANGKOK, Nov. 7: Thailand's Public Health Ministry has warned against the use of cellular phones by children under 12 years of age, saying it could affect the development of their brains, reports AP.
2. DHAK.A, Oct. 28: To many there is a scary outlook for Dhaka city in several respects. Air pollution has reached such startlingly high levels that it has surpassed that of Mexico city and now has the most polluted air in the world, according to a seminar on environmental studies.
C From your reading of the articles in exercises A and B, answer the following questions.
1 How old was Bandaranaike when she became premier?
2 What are batsmen being made aware of?
3 Where did the obese man stay for 25 years?
4 Who could be most affected by the use of cellular phones? How?
5 What prospect about Dhaka city is scary for people?
D Read the following advertisements and answer the questions that follow.
CAREER opportunity
As a leading manufacturer and retailer of finest quality clothing, we invite applications for posts of sales persons who are good-looking, smart,
energetic and hard-working. Both male and female candidates are eligible.
Qualifications: O level/HSC
Fluent in English
If you are interested, apply with a recent
passport size photograph and CV by Dec. 20
Write to GPO Box no. 3560
We don't believe in failure! Do you?
No knowledge of computers! Don't worry! We are here to help you. We offer crash programs for those who really want to learn. Course starts every month. Scats limited, offered on first come first served basis.
You can find us at:
The International IT Institute
House no. 12, Road no/19, Dhanmondi, Dhaka
1 What sort of people arc the two advertisements aimed at?
2 What is the purpose of each advertisement?
3 Why didn't the first advertisers give their address?
4 Would you be interested in any one of the advertisements? If so, which one and why?
5 How do the advertisements directly address the public?
6 Is there any difference in the styles of the two?
7 What questions come to your mind when you read them?
E You want to be a private tutor for students up to class V. Write an appropriate advertisement to put in an English newspaper. Remember advertising in newspapers is expensive. So your advertisement should:
- be very brief
- contain all the information you think necessary
- say how you can be contacted
Focus:
Skills.
Intensive reading, writing. Functions.
Identifying different genres. Grammar/Structure.
Present simple. Vocabulary.
obesity, confine, prone, tribute, premier, surpassed.