TRABAJO PRCTICO N 4 TEXTOS: MASCULL, BILL (1995) Types of media. Programmes and people. News programmes.

Key Words in the Media. Collins Cobuild. Harpers Collins Publishers, London, pp. 1-6. 1-Lea los ttulos de los textos y la bibliografa. Reflexione sobre el posible contenido de los mismos. 2-Observe lo expresado en negrita y cursiva, reflexione sobre su significado y la forma de expresarlo en espaol. 3-Investigue en el diccionario de qu otra manera pueden escribirse los trminos programme y organisation. 4-Elabore la traduccin de cada uno de los textos. TEXTO 1

Types of media
News and entertainment are communicated in a number of different ways, using different media. The media include print media such as newspapers and magazines, and electronic media such as radio and television. The word media is most often used to refer to communication of news, and in this context means the same as news media. Media and mass media are often used when discussing the power of modern communications. TEXTO 2

Programmes and people

Programmes on radio and television may be referred to formally as broadcasts; and they may be referred to informally as shows, specially in American English. Programmes or shows on radio and television are often presented or hosted by a programme host. Popular music programmes are presented by disc jockeys or DJs. News programmes may be hosted, fronted, or anchored by anchors famous in their own right, sometimes more famous than the people in the news. Anchorman, anchorwoman and anchorperson are variations of the noun anchor.

In more traditional news programmes, the news is read by a newsreader or newscaster: newscaster is now a rather old-fashioned word. Reporters and correspondents, or television journalists, make reports. They and the camera operators who go with them are news gatherers. Together they form TV crews. Broadcasters are TV and radio organisations, the people working for them, or, more specifically, the professional media people who actually participate in programmes. TEXTO 3

News programmes
Programmes and reports are transmitted or broadcast live in a live broadcast, with events seen or heard as they happen, or recorded for broadcast later. A recording of an event can be referred to as footage of that event. A news programme might include: dramatic footage of events such as war disasters interviews and studio discussions: pictures of people participating in these are often referred to as talking heads, and informal expression used to show disapproval of what can be a boring form of television vox-pop interviews, or vox-pops getting the reactions of ordinary people street or clips, or extracts, of any of these things