Daily Archives: 10.01.2016

A Good Journalist as I See Him

  1. The public right to know of events of public importance and interest is the main task of the mass media.
  2. They serve to inform people of different events that take place or may happen.
  3. They not only entertain people or even help to make their lives better, they also bring to people different information.
  4. Usually daily mass media carry some international, state and local news.
  5. I think a person of journalist plays a great role in mass media.
  6. I believe the duty of journalists is to serve the truth.
  7. To my mind, a good journalist has to gather and present the news with intelligence, objectivity, accuracy and fairness.
  8. Journalists can speak unpopular opinion and agree or disagree with the majority through the pages of the papers.
  9. A real journalist must be free of obligation to any interest other than the public’s right to know.
  10. Many writers during long periods of their lives worked as journalists.
  11. Mark Twain is one of them.
  12. He worked as a journalist in newspapers in Nevada and California during the years of the Civil War.
  13. His witty style, characterizing all his following works, was formed during his work in “Territorial Enterprise”.
  14. So, a good journalist’s credo has to be – any information should be true, democratic, it should address contemporary life and embrace all aspects of life.
  15. He has to be a born writer of great talent.
  16. The conversation has to be witty, humorous and often exact and precise.

Academy Awards

   Academy Awards is the name for prizes given annually in the United States by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for excellence in the crea­tion and production of motion pictures. First presented in 1929 for films shown in 1927 and 1928, the Academy Awards, commonly known as Oscars, are among the film industry’s most coveted prizes.

A Good Morning

   When I was a boy I lived a long way from school. I had to walk through the forest to get to our school. I usually took my father’s gun with me. One day, coming from school, I heard cries from Mr. Epperly’s house. His dog, Old Ranger, had fought with a mad dog, half an hour before. Now all the people were afraid of Old Ranger because the dog could have become mad too. They all asked Mr. Epperly to shoot Old Ranger. Mr. Epperly said he could not do it himself. He asked some people to do it but nobody agreed. Mr. Epperly came up to me and said: “Joe, why can’t you take the dog with you to the forest on your way home and shoot it?” I told Mr. Epperly I did not want to shoot Old Ranger. “I’ll give you one dollar if you do it,” he said.

Task 16. Kelly Ryan

   Kelly Ryan lives in Kentucky in the USA and starts her new school year in August. She doesn’t go back to just one school, but two. As well as ordinary high school, she goes to virtual high school. Kelly wants to study history of art, but her local high school doesn’t teach it. So she’s taking it on the Internet.
   Kentucky is one of the two states in America at the moment that of­fers virtual high school classes to all their school students — the oth­er is Florida. This is just the beginning. Virtual schools and universities are starting up all over the world. Some education experts think that in 20 years’ time, there’ll be no more real classrooms — only virtual ones.
   So how does virtual school work? When Kelly gets home from regular school, she logs on to the Internet on the family computer. On the home page of her course web site she reads any messages from her teacher and other students. On the ‘What’s new’ page the teacher explains what the next piece of work is and where to find out about the subject on the Internet. Each student has a virtual course book. Kelly does her work here and only she and her teacher can look at it. She uses e-mail to talk to other students of the course (no more than 25) and her teacher. There is a text page where the teacher puts video clips, pieces of text to read and pictures to look at. Any extra materials, such as books, are sent through the post to Kelly’s home.

Dinner for Mr. Martin

    When I was a child, I was afraid of many things. I was afraid of the dark, of dogs, of older boys, even of people shouting. My mother was always trying to teach me not to be afraid. She often told me: “What will you be doing when you grow up if you are afraid of everything? How will you be living? How will you be working?” One day she told me a story about herself. A story that I remembered so well.