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Answer key: Units 7 and 8
3 A am looking (leaving out I), put me up, didn’t, 8 Media matters
meet up, I’d, I’ll be around, Don’t worry, it’s,
loads of, it’d be good
B no informal features Listening | Part 3
C to get everyone together, we’re asking, ask
someone over, It’s, hopefully, shouldn’t 1 1 when it was still a new medium available to mass
D Just a short note (leaving out This is), as well, audiences – probably in the 1950s
set the evening up 2 a detailed study
E no informal features 3 They enjoy it greatly.
4 Citizen journalism is written by ordinary people
3 Suggested answers rather than trained journalists.
1 (This is) Just to let you know (that) …
2 your holiday that’s coming up soon / the holiday 2 1 C 2 D 3 A 4 D 5 C 6 B
you’ve got coming up
3 will be taken from your credit card CD 2 Track 02
4 the week after you leave Interviewer: In today’s On Message I’m joined by Harry
5 I’m very sorry about this Cameron, the veteran journalist, who has witnessed
6 We try really hard many changes in his profession over the last nearly sixty
7 To start with, I wanted to know about / I asked years. Harry, welcome.
about Cameron: Thank you.
8 If you want / you’d like me to do it for you Interviewer: Harry, can you tell me what being a journalist
9 There’s something else we need to think about was like when you started as a junior reporter?
10 I can’t tell you what to do about this
Cameron: My main memory of those far-off days is the
sense of pride I felt at writing for a respected national
4 Suggested answers newspaper. It was a real honour. What you have to
A Good to hear from you – it’ll be great to get
together when you’re over here in November. remember is that in those days people got most of
Unfortunately, we’ve got people staying at that their information about the world from their daily
time, so we won’t be able to put you up – sorry. newspapers. Television was in its infancy – something
C Thanks for the/your invitation to the college get- only the rich could afford. The radio broadcast regular
together in June. It sounds great and I’ll certainly news bulletins, but newspapers gave people the
be there. pictures to go with the stories. Journalists like me
travelled the world and filed reports which kept people
up to date with everything important. I remember in
6 Suggested answers
At the beginning: comment on the fact that your the early 1950s reporting from a war zone in East Asia.
friend is planning to learn your language, ask about I wrote my report in my hotel bedroom. I could hear
the language course your friend is attending, give gunfire and see plumes of smoke. I phoned the report
some general information about your town through to my editor for publication a day or two later.
I was reporting something thousands of miles from
At the end: say you’re looking forward to seeing your home – something the public didn’t already know.
friend, suggest meeting during your friend’s stay
Interviewer: But people still read newspapers today,
don’t they?
7 a 4 and 9 b 1, 3, 6 and 10 c 2, 3, 5, 7 and 8
Cameron: Yes, of course, but I believe the function of
newspapers has changed. If you want to know what’s
going on in the world at any particular time, you don’t
read a newspaper, do you? You look on the Internet
or turn on the telly. Whatever channel you’re watching,
there’ll be regular news updates.
Interviewer: So, what can newspapers provide if not
current news?
Cameron: Well, I suppose different newspapers provide
different things, don’t they? The broadsheets give us
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