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Exercise 1: [Camcorder]
Match the word with its meaning.
Answers:
1. Camcorder: An all-in-one camera and recorder
2. Travelogue: A narrated film or video about travel
3. Docusoap: A TV series based on the lives of real people
4. Infotainment: A TV programme with a mixture of news and entertainment features
5. Celebrity chef: A chef known for presenting cookery shows and advice on TV
6. Telethon: A long TV programme that provides entertainment in order to raise money for charity
7. Game Show: A type of TV show in which people answer questions or play games to win prizes
8. Docudrama: A show or film based on events which really happened
9. Rerun: A programme that is being shown again
10. Sitcom: A series about a particular group of characters that deal with situations in a humorous way
11. Tabloid TV: TV programmes which are meant to excite and shock
Exercise 2: [TV jumble]
Rearrange the letters to reveal a type of programme on TV.
Answers:
1: documentary
2: travelogue
3: talent show
4: makeover show
5: cartoon
6: soap opera
7: debate
8: talk show
9: sports
10: cookery show
11: game show
12: reality show
13: comedy
14: news
15: drama
[Audio] Exercise 3: [Caesar's seizures]
Listen and put the words containing the /zh/ sounds in the box called 'Treasure' and the others in the box called 'Teaser'.
Answers:
Treasure:
delusion
azure
base
rouge
closure
leisure
composure
seizure
treasury
Teaser:
dilution
assure
base
rude
closer
lesser
composer
Caesar
treachery
Exercise 4: [Genre]
Choose the the appropriate word from the options given.
1. Genre means a particular .......... or .......... .
2. Portrait is a popular .............. of painting.
3. Animation is a new..................of film.
4. Street plays are a.....................of theatre which try to educate the lay public about social and political issues.
5. When was the show......................?
6. When will the show be..................?
7. When is the show being..................?
8. Is the show being ...................now?
Answers:
1. type/category
2. genre
3. genre
4. genre
5. broadcast
6. broadcast
7. broadcast
8. broadcast
[Audio] Exercise 5:
Say the following words in pairs and then listen and compare.
1. ledger leisure
2. teachery treasury
3. dilution delusion
4. Caesar seizure
5. composer composure
6. base beige
7. closer closure
8. lesser leisure
9. leather leisure
10. bathe beige
11. Ruth rouge
12. method measured
13. roof rouge
14. seeker seizure
15. cedar seizure
16. rude rouge
17. letter leisure
18. Babe beige
19. lettered leisured
20. leper leisure
[Audio] Exercise 6: [Illusions, delusions]
Listen and drag and drop the words to complete the tongue twisters. Then try saying them quickly.
1. treasure can't measure leisure
2. beize leather for leisure
3. babe in beige
4. visions of azure skies
5. illusion of treachery in treasury
6. illusion is delusion
7. usual lesions
8. visual illusions
9. confusions 'n illusions abound
10. Caesar has seizure as Ruth dabs on rouge
Now make some of your own!
[Audio] Exercise 7:
Listen and choose the correct answer.
1. If you are a successful travel journalist, you have to pay to go on a holiday. True/ False
2. "If you find out what you love to do, you never have to work again." This means
a. You enjoy your work so much that it doesn't feel like work True/ False
b. You are thrown out of your job. True/ False
c. Love is like dope, you become incapable of working. True/ False
3. Disrupted body clock refers to:
a. changing the time in your watch to the local time of the country/area True/ False
b. The internal mechanisms of your body that regulate periodic body functions
like sleep etc. True/ False
4. Life of a travel journalist is always 'five star' True/ False
5. Travel shows are generally very popular. True/ False
6. 'Vicarious' means -someone performs an activity, but you feel it as your own- True/ False
7. 'snatches of conversation' refers to
a. small bits of conversation True/ False
b. to steal a dialogue True/ False
8. A traveller's experiences are usually deeper than those of a tourist. True/ False
9. Huxley died in 1963, before TV became popular Do you think his is view is relevant today?
Answers:
1. False
2. a. True
b. False
c. False
3. a. False
b. True
4. False
5. True
6. True
7. a.True
b.False
8. True
[Audio script]
The good thing about being a travel journalist is that if you are successful you get paid to go on a holiday. It is said that if you find out what you love to do, you never have to work again! But more often than not, it is a lot of hard work, long journeys... not always comfortable, a disrupted body clock, strange�not always palatable food, long weeks away from family, usually not enough money.
Why do people do it then? Because it is fun! Or... because they have to. They are seekers, trying to understand the truth of the human condition. As Aldous Huxley once said, "to travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries." What we discover about a place is generally different from what we assume about it.
To present a successful travelogue one needs to have a love for life, an eye for the unusual, a taste for adventure, and a thirst for the unknown. The presenter also needs to make regular notes about people, snatches of conversation, small details which can make the experience come alive for viewers. This is a major difference between a traveller and a tourist. A tourist just sees whatever is the highlight of the destination, but a traveller seeks to explore the unknown, to find the underlying motivations...
Small wonder then that travel shows are among the most popular ones on TV. The viewer can see the world from his favourite couch, sample exotic food, vicariously of course, and it is all free.
Exercise 8: [Show time]
Look at the names of the TV shows and guess the type of show.
Answers:
1. Moonwalk Documentary on Michael Jackson
2. Abracadabra Docutainment - the truth about magic
3. Vrooooom Sports show - famous F1 Races
4. Yesterday Once More Old music
5. Mp3 Pop music
6. Globetrotters Travel show
7. Bookworm Talk show with an author
8. Go Green Gardening reality show
Exercise ?:
You are in charge of programming a TV channel from 7am to 11 pm. News time is fixed. Choose from the list of programmes to make an interesting schedule. Drag and drop the programmes in the slots you wish. Club them together as required.
Programme Genre Time
Dancing with Celebs Talent show 30 minutes
Moonwalk documentary on MJ 30 minutes
Breakfast with Mum cookery show 30 minutes
Dare devils reality show about biking stunts 60 minutes
Abracadabra truth about magic 30 minutes
Vrooooom Famous F1 Races 30 minutes
Jack and Jill Old Soap Opera 30 minutes
News hour (at 10 pm) news 60 minutes
News at 8 pm news 30 minutes
News at 7 am news 30 minutes
Mp3 pop music 60 minutes
Yesterday once more old music 30 minutes
Movie Hollywood blockbuster 120 minutes
Movie rerun of old movie 120 minutes
Globetrotters Travel 60 minutes
Tete a tete talk show with a Page 3 person 30 minutes
Bookworm Talk show with an author 30 minutes
Career ladder Docutainment 30 minutes
Go Green Gardening reality show 30 minutes
Toon Time cartoons 30 minutes
Time slots:
Am
1. 7.00 - 7.30 News
2. 7.30 - 8.00
3. 8.00 - 8.30
4. 8.30 - 9.00
5. 9.00 - 9.30
6. 9.30 - 10.00
7. 10.00 - 10.30
8. 10.30 - 11.00
9. 11.00 - 11.30
10. 11.30 - 12.00
11. 12.00 - 12.30
12. 12.30 - 1.00
13. 1.00 - 1.30
14. 1.30 - 2.00
15. 2.00 - 2.30
16. 2.30 - 3.00
17. 3.00 - 3.30
18. 3.30 - 4. 00
19. 4.00 - 4.30
20. 4.30 - 5.00
21. 5.00 - 5.30
22. 5.30 - 6.00
23. 6.00 - 6.30
24. 6.30 - 7.00
25. 7.00 - 7.30
26. 7.30 - 8.00
27. 8.00 - 8.30 News
28. 8.30 - 9.00
29. 9.00 - 9.30
30. 9.30 - 10.00
31. 10.00 - 11.00 News Hour
[Audio] Exercise 9:
Guess and fill in the missing words. Then listen and check.
Shin: What's wrong with television these days!
Chan: Hunh...what do you mean?
Shin: Well it's filled with these crass, cheap 1 ............shows.
Chan: They are not 2 ............! They celebrate the human condition! I love them!
Shin: Ha! I think reality shows are based on pre-written 3 ..........demeaning other people and exploiting little kids for our 4 ...........!
Chan: Well maybe some, 5............... not all! I admit some of them celebrate stupidity but there are some excellent ones too. Some teach us about car maintenance, give dating tips, give a platform to showcase our 6 ........... ....
Shin: Dating tips! When does that come on 7...........?
Chan: I thought you hated reality shows!
Shin: Ahem... I still do... my interest is purely 8 ...................
Chan: Liar!
Shin: Seriously, why are they so 9 ...............?
Chan: Probably because people can 10 ...............with them. One of them is up there, making it big. 'I can too!' This is the feeling.
Shin: And the 11 .............. insulting 12 ................... It's outright cruel. How can people stand it. I detest such stuff.
Chen: I guess it helps us forget our humiliating moments. And frankly, some of the participants do need a reality 13 .................. !
Answers:
1. reality
2. cheap
3. scripts
4. entertainment
5. definitely
6. talent
7. air
8. academic
9. popular
10. identify
11. judges
12. participants
13. check
[Audio script]
Shin: What's wrong with television these days!
Chan: Hunh...what do you mean?
Shin: Well it's filled with these crass, cheap reality shows.
Chan: They are not cheap! They celebrate the human condition! I love them!
Shin: Ha! I think reality shows are based on pre-written scripts, demeaning other people and exploiting little kids for our entertainment!
Chan: Well maybe some, definitely not all! I admit some of them celebrate stupidity but there are some excellent ones too. Some teach us about car maintenance, give dating tips, give a platform to showcase our talent....
Shin: Dating tips! When does that come on air?
Chan: I thought you hated reality shows...
Shin: Ahem... I still do... my interest is purely academic.
Chan: Liar!
Shin: Seriously, why are they so popular?
Chan: Probably because people can identify with them. One of them is up there making it big. 'I can too!' This is the feeling.
Shin: And the judges insulting participants. It's outright cruel. How can people stand it? I detest such stuff.
Chen: I guess it helps us forget our humiliating moments. And frankly, some of the participants do need a reality check!
[Image] Exercise 10 - step 1: [Prime time crime]
You are going to create a Murder Mystery. Label the teasers (an opening shot). Then choose one before moving on to the next exercise...
Options:
1. A high-pitched scream
2. Shattering glass
3. A dead body being dragged
4. A bullet whizzing past
5. A sharpshooter
6. Cars falling off a cliff
Step 2
Characters: Choose any five:
Inspector Keensite
Inspector Mindseye
Robin - Victim's best friend and partner
Dave - Victim's brother
Tia - Victim's wife
Reeta - Victim's ex- girlfriend
Sam - Victim's driver
Harry - gatekeeper
Jagatram - Spiritual guru
Minnie - 5 year old child
Step 3:
Figure out relationships between characters
Step 4:
Give each character a personality. Add both positive and negatives.
Here are some hints to start you on...
Middle-aged, young, handsome, ambitious, wealthy, loves family, polished, domineering( dominating in a negative way), inquisitive, intelligent, talks in riddles, comes up with acidic one liners, never looks at people in the eye, self centered, gorgeous looks, tends to flirt, confident, impulsive, talkative, greedy, alert, manipulative, sensitive, genuine, sad, very disturbed by the tragedy...
1.
2
3.
4.
5.
Step 5:
Location: Choose one
1. Party in posh apartment
2. Mountain resort
3. Factory floor
4. College campus
5. Dark lonely street corner
Step 6:
Choose one murder motive:
Inheritance, jealousy, extra-marital affair, business rivalry...
Step7:
Choose murder weapon:
Gun, knife, rope, poison, car malfunction
Step 8:
Find clues. Choose three:
1. finger prints
2. witness
3. telephone records
4. funds transfer
5. CCTV footage, but, not very clear
6. post mortem report
7. murder weapon
any other...
Step 9:
Sequence of events. Organize the following events in a sequence of your choice. You can add or delete events according to your story.
1. Police discuss forensic (post mortem) report
2. discovery of body; by whom, where
3. Reaction to discovery of body
4. who informs police
5. Police investigations
a. visit scene of crime
b. look for clues- how, where, find which ones
c. police make a list of suspects
d. police question people
e. police frame a theory
6. Reaction of suspects to questioning
7. Any suspicious behaviour during investigation
8. solution to mystery.
Step 10:
Now that you have the main ingredients sorted out, cook up an interesting murder mystery.
Start with a tantalizing teaser (step 1) and let the story unfold...
Write this down or narrate it to a friend. You can record it, then play it back and correct it. Make other improvements. Try adding the sound effects with your voice. It sure is a lot of fun. Post it to your friends and enjoy their comments!