(2015) Коллоквиум 1. Ответы на вопросы (1157974), страница 2
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3. What age do British pupils normally take exams?
Answer: The General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) was introduced for 16 year-olds. "A" Level (Advanced Level) GCE exam (General Certificate of Education) at 17-19.
4. How can they enter Universities and colleges?
Answer: "A" Level (Advanced Level) GCE exam (General Certificate of Education) is necessary for University entrance. Good "A" Level results in at least two subjects are necessary to get a place at a university. However, good exam passes alone are not enough. Universities choose their students after interviews, and competition for places at university is fierce.
5. Which types of British universities do you know?
Answer: British universities differ greatly from each other. They differ in date of foundation, size, history, tradition, general organization, methodsm of instruction, way of student life. The oldest and best-known universities are located in Oxford, Cambridge, London, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Edinburgh, Southampton, Cardiff, Bristol, Birmingham. There is an interesting form of studies which is called the Open University. It is intended for people who study in their own free time and who "attend" lectures by watching television and listening to the radio and now working on the internet. They keep in touch by phone and email with their tutors and attend summer schools.
6. What degrees do British students receive on leaving universities?
Answer: After three years of study a university graduate will leave with the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, Science. Engineering, Medicine, etc. Later he or she may continue to take the Master's Degree and then the Doctor's Degree.
Section 5
1. What does the term “media” include?
Answer: The term “media” generally refers to the print industries (the press or newspapers and magazines) and broadcasting (cable and satellite television, radio and video).
2. What is the reason why the British continue to buy and read newspapers in our internet age?
Answer: grandmothers and grandfathers buy newspapers
3. Which categories are the British newspapers divided into?
Answer: There are national and regional newspapers. National papers are usually termed ‘quality’ or ‘popular’ depending on their differences in content and format (broadsheet or tabloid). Others are called ‘mid-market’. They are between these two extremes.
4. Do you know any names of the British newspapers or magazines (journals)?
Answer: The Times, The Sun, The Economist, The Spectator, etc.
5. What are the main British radio and television channels?
Answer: BBC1,2,4, Channel 4, Sky etc. Radio 1 - 5.
The BBC now has two television channels (BBC1 and BBC2). BBC1 is a mass-appeal channel with an audience share of 28 per cent. Its programmes consist of news, plays and drama series, comedy, quiz shows, variety performances, sport and documentaries. BBC2, with an audience share of 11 per cent, tends to show more serious items such as news analysis and discussion, documentaries, adaptations of novels into plays and series, operas, concerts and some sports. It also provides Open University courses. In 2001 The Labour government approved the expansion of BBC television services by the creation of a BBC4 channel (culture and the arts) and two channels for children.
Radio 1 caters for pop music; Radio 2 has light music, news, and comedy; Radio 3 provides classical and modern serious music, talks, discussions and plays; Radio 4 concentrates on news reports, analysis, talks and plays; and Radio 5 Live (established in 1990) has sport and news programs.
6. What is the BBC service?
Answer: The BBC’s external services, the World Service in English and 42 other languages abroad, were founded in 1932 and are funded by the Foreign Office. These have a reputation for objective news reporting and programmes. News reports, documentaries and current-affairs analyses, animal films are generally of a high standard.
7. What is Reuters ?
Answer: Reuters News Agency is an international news agency headquartered in London. It operates in more than 200 cities and offers quick and easy access to hot news in about 200 languages.
Section 6
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1. When was the term ballad used in its present sense?
Answer:
(Lets assume someone is correct)
After the 18th century when was used to describe love songs.
2 .What is one of the oldest printed fairy tales in England?
Answer: Tom Thumb. In this fairytale a childless poor couple asked Magician Merlin to give them a son even if he were no bigger than his father’s thumb. Tom Thumb uncounted many adventures.
3. What important information does the British folklore contain?
Answer: The main system of values, beliefs and traditions of British nations is mostly reflected in the ballads and fairy tales.
4. What English fairy tales and legends do you know?
Answer: Legends: Beowulf, the legend devoted to King Arthur, Robin Hood. Fairy tales: Tom Thumb, Three Heads in the Well, Tom Tit Tot, Cap o' Rushes, the Small-Tooth Dog, and the Rose Tree.
5. Which English writers do you know?
Answer: William Shakespeare, J.R.R. Tolkien, Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, William Somerset Maugham, Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austin, Bernard Shaw, Joan Rolling etc.
6. Which English writers have you read in English?
Answer: Personal answer, e.g. I have read Dreiser, Maugham, London, Byron...
7. What do you know about UK theater?
Answer: Britain has a long tradition of theater. It was introduced from Europe to England by the Romans. The reign of Elizabeth I saw a flowering of the theater. During the Revolution of 1642—1660, English theatres were closed by the Puritans. Today there are over 200 theaters in Britain: 40 of which are situated in London’s West End. The most famous British theaters are The Royal Opera and Royal Ballet, both based at Covent Garden, the National Theatre and the Barbican Theatre. The National is a part of the South Bank Arts Centre, located near the River Thames.
8. Have you read or seen any Shakespeare plays?
Answer: Yes / no / I’d like to
9. Have you seen any Shaw’s plays?
Answer: Yes / no / I’d like to
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