14. On February 12, 2010, British Prime Minister Brown took part in a video-conference with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia to launch a High Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing. 15. The UK government has followed a forthright policy in dealing with climate change since the Kyoto was signed in 1997.
UK unit6
of the oldest of the early\English\work is a long poem from Anglo Saxon times called Beowulf.
2. The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey chaucer is often studied by middle school and college students today. 3. Shakespeare's plays fall into three categories. They are tragedies, comedies and history plays.
4. Name two of the tragedies written by Shakespeare: Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.
5. Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte are noted for their respective novel Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights which are largely the love stories of a woman for a man.
6. Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Gaskell are regarded not only as novelists but also as social critics in the 19th century.
7. The author of Ivanhoe was Sir Walter Scott; Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist tells the story of an orphan child drawn into crime in the London underworld.
literature can be broadly divided into two stylistic periods: Modernism and Postmodernism.
9. Virginia Woolf was one of the most famous writers of the 20th century.
Her work was concerned with the individual consciousness, especially the female consciousness. She sometimes used the technique of the stream of consciousness in her writing. 10. The Heart of Darkness was written by Joseph Conrad; the author of the book 7984 was George Orwell.
11. The best-known novel by William Golding is titled Lord of Flies.
12. In popular fiction, lan Fleming's fantastic James Bond stories are well-known, especially for their numerous film versions.
Unit 9
1. Britain's three most popular activities are watching TV, listening to the radio and reading newspapers.
2. Britain has one of the world's oldest established newspaper industries. The which appeared in 1791, is the world's oldest national newspaper, while The Times, which began publishing in 1785, is Britain's oldest daily newspaper.
3. The quality newspapers carry more serious and in-depth articles of particular political and social importance.
4. The Guardian is regarded as the most left-wing newspaper in Britain.
5. The other category of newspapers is the tabloids which are often called\gutter press\
6. Officially speaking the British newspapers are free from government control and censorship and can print what they like, but many British aws limit the freedom of newspapers. 7. The BBC stands for the British Broadcasting Corporation. 8. For a long time the BBC had two channels. BBC One entertains people with sports, drama, current affairs, etc.; BBC Two provides special interest audience with documentaries and shows
.9. The News of the World, which began publishing in 1843, is considered as one of the tabloids.
10. The Financial Times carries business stories, and this paper is printed not only at home but also in many other countries of the world such as Germany, France, Spain and Japan.
11. The media are also affected by the Official Secret Act, a legal act which demands that all government information is kept secret unless the government agrees to release it. 12. The media have many functions. They provide people with information about political and social problems. They carry advertising and also play an important role in forming a national culture.
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