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Task 1. Subfolder GRAMMAR (Unit 13) contains 26 audio and video files featuring grammatical means of broadcast news media discourse.
Analyse files No. 1-13 in Subfolder GRAMMAR, define what grammatical phenomena each file reflects. Put it down to discuss in class.
You have to transcribe only a sentence fragment containing the grammatical phenomenon in question, not the whole audio or video file!
Task 2. Analyse the syntactical structure of the headlinebelow.
Read the article and determine its genre. Study the italicised words and terms in the material.
Austerity won’t trigger double-dip recession, economists say
Graeme Wearden
George Osborne’s programme of spending cuts and tax rises will not push Britain into a double-dip recession, according to a poll of the UK’s top economists published today.
The Financial Times (FT) surveyed 78 economists from across academia and the business world, and found that only one firmly believes the British economy will contract during 2011. The findings will be seen a boost to the government, as it faces criticism for raising VAT (value added tax) to 20 % today.
However, many of those surveyed remained pessimistic about the state of the British and world economies, with inflation rising strongly at home and the sovereign debt crisis bubbling away overseas.
The FT survey found that most leading economists believe Osborne’s deficit-reduction programme will slow growth this year, but that the economy will continue to expand at a modest pace.
However, several of those surveyed did caution that a double-dip recession remained a possibility, as the government implements a wide-ranging fiscal tightening while the global economic crisis is still being played out.
Raising VAT from 17.5 % to 20 % will, the chancellor believes, raise around £13bn to help reduce Britain’s borrowings. The deficit for the current financial year is expected to hit £155bn.
Retailers have warned that the increased tax will hurt them badly.
After growing strongly earlier in 2010, the UK economy probably slowed in the last three months of last year – a trend expected to continue in 2011.
The Сhancellor may be forced to rethink his deficit-reduction plans if the economy falters. Osborne’s austerity cutbacks were cited by 34 economists as one of the top three risks to the UK economy in 2011. The top threat was the European sovereign debt crisis, amid ongoing concern over Portugal and Spain’s ability to cover their borrowings. Experts believe this will be a “make or break” year for the euro, with some predicting that the single currency will not survive the next decade.
High inflation was also a major concern, with the Consumer Prices Index expected to hit 4 % in the next few months. Nearly half of the economists suggested that the Bank of England was losing credibility, having missed its inflation target throughout 2010.
The Guardian, January 4, 2011
Task 3. Watch Video 12.1 and get its major idea.Transcribe the clip.
Task 4. Identify an idiom in Video 12.1. Are there any clichés in the clip? What grammatical construction is in the last sentence of the brief?
What does the term double-dip recession mean?
Task 5. Listen to Audio Track 12.1 to get its idea.
Task 6. Listen to the track again and find English equivalents of the following Russian terms.
| общее количество безработных | искать работу |
| пособие | занятость |
| численность безработных | экономический спад |
| рынок труда | центр занятости |
| статистические данные | число вакансий возросло |
| самый высокий уровень (безработицы) | уровень инфляции |
| трудоспособный возраст | доходы |
| экономически неактивный безработный | получать пособие по безработице |
Task 7. Put the numbers in the box into the context of the report.
2.5m 3rd month 9.25m 49,000
1992 16 to 24s 1m 1 in 4
Task 8. Listen to Audio Track 12.1 again and answer the questions.
1. What are the verbs and nouns used by the journalist to denote movement in the upward / downward direction?
2. Find all the clichés in the track and correlate them with their Russian equivalents.
3. Are there any colloquial words in the piece? If so, what are they?
4. Name all the realia in the piece.
5. Why is the report permeated with phrasal verbs? Identify them all and comment on their use.
6. What grammatical constructions did you come across in the report?
Task 9. Translate the following sentence into Russian, paying attention to the italicised words and word combinations.
“As the economy struggles to recover from the recession, the difficulties facing anyone looking for a job have been underlined by the latest unemployment figures.”
Task 10. Read the newspaper article below. What genre is the piece? Prove your point.
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