Professional English
Cambridge English for
the Media
UNIT 4 a
EXTRA ACTIVITIES
Television
Try to complete these extracts from audio 4.1. Listen and check your answers. 1 Good morning. Let’s get s iVgiZY . You’ll find my ideas about last night in the email I sent. 2 Just to say I thought the p on the Prime Minister was excellent … 3 … and the l f from Georgia with the Scotland football squad was great. 4 So w d on that. 5 Donna’s p today. What have you got for us, Donna? 6 Lots of stuff on the w . 7 The t is that this guy’s an American. 8 We should be getting a package from our Asia c . 9 They’ve got d f that they shot themselves available for us. 10 It would be great if we could get the story as an e , wouldn’t it? 11 So those are the main n e . What do you think? 12 The American terrorist video has got to be the t s . 13 Could we get a p a l from the Washington bureau? 14 Yeah, that shouldn’t be a p . 15 Andrew, can we get a Scottish a on the trafficking story? 16 I could p i u using the police footage from Birmingham. 17 I think it’d be great if we could produce a whole programme on this issue here and abroad by using our own c c . 18 I’ll s w we can do about that. 19 It s g to me. 20 It would be an excellent start for the next winter series of our c a programme. 21 In the meantime, we’ll put our top r … on to getting people’s views on the trafficking issue. 22 So going back to our news programme, Donna, what’s the r o ? 23 Well, for the moment I’ll g w terrorism, trafficking … 24 Let’s m b h at 2.30.
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What is happening in the extracts? Write M, P, S, A/D or I next to each extract. Sometimes more than one answer is possible. Managing a meeting (M) Giving praise for good work (P) Offering suggestions (S) Agreeing with suggestions and making decisions (A/D) Giving information about news stories (I)
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Cambridge English for the Media Cambridge University Press 2009 www.cambridge.org/elt/englishforthemedia
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