Practical Tasks

Task 1. Analyse the syntactical structure of the following headlines. Trans­late the headlines into Russian in writing.

1. Halting Holocaust obfuscation.

2. City donors lash out at Cameron.

3. Steam versus electric locomotives.

4. Milk drinkers are turning to powder.

5. Metal works reorganization conference at Montreal.

6. Coal handling problems at electric station.

7. PM to make life “hell” for gangs.

8. School chief: 5,000 heads are no good.

9. Mother’s ruin? Make mine a double!

10. Chrysler demo defies “rescue” that means the sack.

Task 2. Analyse the use of tenses in the following headlines. Translate the headlines into Russian in writing.

1. Floods hit Scotland.

2. Lorry crushes into shop-window.

3. Police find crack in UK.

4. Standards of living to plunge, says Bank Governor.

5. Stay-in-Strikers at Chicago to crush bosses.

6. 1,000 British aircraft stop work.

7. Will we carry on camping?

8. Doctor testifies in horse suit.

9. US opens route to Afghanistan through Russia’s backyard.

10. Boy, 3, left in car by teacher, dies.

Task 3. Analyse the following elliptical and nominative sentences used as headlines. Translate the headlines into Russian in writing.

1. Paris protest march staged by students.

2. Boxing champ Kell Kniffed on holiday.

3. Makes you proud to be British.

4. The divisive politics of the eurozone.

5. Food safety fears as supermarkets put price squeeze on their suppliers.

6. Whither modern medicine?

7. Why polar expedition?

8. Don’t count on Britain to buy your energy after breakaway, Scots warned.

Task 4. Watch Video 2.1 and fill in the grid as in Task 5, Unit 1.

Task 5. Find five different syntactical and grammatical types of newspaper headlines, put them down to discuss in class.

Task 6. Analyse lexical features of the following headlines. Translate them into Russian in writing.

1. Syria crackdown as unrest spreads.

2. National Gallery launches bid to buy the Titian.

3. BP shares hit by Gulf of Mexico judgment.

4. West tightens the sanctions screw on Putin.

5. Australia scraps “useless” carbon tax.

6. Shake loose the cold war.

7. Hard-liners rise in Pakistan floods.

8. The farmer who wouldn’t cow-tow.

9. Anglo-French drive in Egypt halted.

10. Nowhere to hide for Bedouine in the line of fire.

11. Farthers4Justice vows to step up attacks on the nation’s artworks.

12. Michael Gove plans radical overhaul of GCSE grades.

Task 7. Analyse the stylistic features of the following headlines. Trans­late them into Russian in writing:

1. Awkward alliance.

3. I’ve been such a fuel (Osborn1 U-turn on fuel tax rise).

4. Another day, another TV heroine brutalised.

5. Serene glamour in Normandy.

6. How Moscow killed communism.

7. Calais ‘is besieged’ by gangs of migrants.

8. Is this the loneliest seahorse in Britain?

9. Naomi Campbell: “I’ve got dirty diamonds”.

10. Quiet thunder.

11. In for a penny, in for a pound – discount battle it out for high street business.

Task 8. Watch Video 2.2 and fill in the grid as in Task 5, Unit 1.

Unit 3

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