Caiet de exerciţii Exercises for advanced students

9. Write an essay giving your opinion about the role of media in one of the following situations:
a. The rise and fall of super-stars in music industry (example: Michael Jackson).
b. The image of the president of a country for the citizens (example: the role of media during the
Watergate scandal, which lately brought to the resignation of president Richard Nixon).

10. Do the following exercises:

a.Complete each sentence with a word formed from one of these verbs: catch, censor, circulate,
cover, criticise.
1. The new gallery was given the seal of approval by the Observer’s art ………, who wrote several
enthusiastic articles about it. 2. Roy Richardson is one of the BBC’s veteran cricket……….3. Under
the Government’s wartime ………rules, all newspaper articles had to be checked by officials before
being printed. 4, The tabloids have excellent ………of scandal and sport: the quality papers deal
with everything else. 5. The local newspaper’s………fell dramatically when the editor was sacked.
6. That jingle from the teabag ad is so ………that I can’t get it out of my head.
b. Choose the correct word or phrase from the pair in brackets to complete each sentence:
1. The actors have been ………the play all this week. (rehearsing/repeating).
2. The audience applauded wildly when the director appeared on the ……… to take his bow.
(scene/stage)
3. I’ve been watching a fascinating new ………of art programmes. (serie/series)
4. Although the play has a large number of ………, it is comparatively easy to follow the plot.
(characters/persons)

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