TASK 8. Translate the sentences below into your mother tongue, paying special attention to the media vocabulary.

	Once the programme was broadcast, the BBC received forty telephone calls, and hundreds of letters poured into our recently acquired PO Box, many containing donations.
	How many times have you flicked through the TV channels only to find nothing worth watching?
	Most MTV Hollywood films are just trailers with delusions of grandeur, taking their cues from pop videos and ads in an attempt to accommodate a generation raised on channel hopping and the fast-forward button.
	Never forget that the producer of the program is trying to grab you before you zap away to another news show.
	Broadcasting seven days a week from 3 pm to 3 am, and increasing to eighteen hours a day within two years, Ovation will offer a daily cultural news review, interviews, profiles, live or pre-recorded dramatic performances, dance events, museum visits and concerts (possibly with radio simulcast), as well as specially promoted monthly ‘blockbuster specials’.
	Tune in to the Breakfast Show tomorrow to win VIP tickets to the Lollapalooza festival on Long Island.
	Now Americans boast of their own ‘princess’— Maria Shriver, attractive niece of the late John F. Kennedy, wife of film star Arnold Schwarzenegger and powerful TV news anchorwoman.

TASK 9. Fill in the gaps in the conversation below with one of the words and expressions from the box.

commercials	couch potato	sitcom	trials and tribulations	game show	soap opera
mystery	documentary	trivia	science fiction	prime-time	kick back

Janet: Let's do something! Why don't we go out for dinner or go dancing.
Jack: I'm watching TV.

Janet: You're always watching TV. Stop being such a ________ (1). Get up, and let's do something!
Jack: I am doing something. I'm watching TV.
Janet: You're always watching a new episode of some stupid ________ (2)! It's a waste of time, and a waste of brain power.
Jack: Sometimes it's nice just to ________ (3), relax and laugh a little. There is nothing wrong with a little comedy in one's life. In fact, that's why I married you.
Janet: Ha, ha! VERY FUNNY!
Jack: Besides, I am watching something serious.
Janet: What? I bet it's some ridiculous _________(4) with perfect looking people complaining about the _________(5) of daily life.
Jack: Nope, wrong again.
Janet: Then it must be a _________ (6) news program describing how some woman went crazy and killed her husband.
Jack: No, I watched that last night. You had better guess quickly - the _________ (7) are almost over.
Janet: Is it a murder _________ (8)? Or some _________ (9) show like Star Trek?
Jack: No.
Janet: A _________ (10) where they test your knowledge of useless _________ (11)?
Jack: No, it's a _________ (12) on dolphins in the Caribbean.
Janet: Hey, that sounds interesting!
Jack: Why don't we make some popcorn and then watch the rest of it together.

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