Are these statements true or false? Correct the false ones.

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B. Write 14 sentences with the above word combinations.

A. Match the words on the left with the words on the right.

Translate the following sentences into English using the phrases and word combinations.

1. Для некоторых молодых писателей литература – лишь способ обеспечить себе положение в обществе.

2. Морально сомнительная «жёлтая пресса» в основном уделяет внимание публичным и скандальным фигурам.

3. Классическая литература – фундамент цивилизации,

формирующий наше воображение и стремления.

4. Книга – не только сумма составляющих ёё частей. Авторская идея и ценности гораздо важнее её физических составляющих.

5. В режиме диктатуры партия власти способна запрещать неугодные ей книги.

6.Что качается передачи информации телевидение моментально оказывается эффективным.

7.Российская Государственная библиотека ежедневно предоставляет доступ к различным научным трудам

8. Морально сомнительные издательства могут быть запрещены для продажи несовершеннолетним.

published unwillingnes

constituent speech

the ability to publish

general figure

litigious courses

further powers

publishing of civilization

upholders product

the printed impact

free parts

physical imaginings

shape access

moral word

provide components

1) The published product is more than the sum total of its constituent parts.

2) Students on editing courses are taught that books are not upholders of civilization.

3) The printed word should be treated differently as it affects the

whole question of free speech, debate and argument

throughout the land.

4) A book is more than its cover, pages and ink thereon.

5) Writers have a responsibility to question a book's moral impact on society.

6) Writing a book landed Salman Rushdie with a price tag of 10 million pounds on his head.

7) The role played by publishers in the human rights movement has not been important.

8) The basic work of protecting human rights begins with documentation.

9) The power to communicate applies to books alone.

10) Dictators tried to burn, or the politically correct, to ban books because they smack of permanence.

17. Answer the following questions:

1. How can books change life?

2. What is the real product within the published product?

3. What does the ability to publish provide?

4. What are students on publishing courses taught?

5. Why should the printed word be treated differently?

6. What responsibility do publishers have?

7. Do you agree that the role played by publishers in the human

rights movement has been pivotal? Give your examples.

8. What does the basic work of protecting human rights begin

with?

9. Does the power to communicate apply to books alone?

10. Why can newspaper articles and television programmes be more immediate in their effectiveness?

11. Why are many media of communication necessarily

ephemeral?

12. Why have the dictators tried to burn or ban the books?

18. Work in pairs. Discuss the questions No. 1, 5, 6, 7