Answer the following questions. 1. How are the young presenters described?

1. How are the young presenters described?

2. Are the adjectives positive or negative and what effect do they produce?

3. Why do the TV presenters call the teenages "youff"?

4. What makes their appearance ridiculous?

5. Why does the narrator call them 'odious brats"?

6. Is there any link between the producer's name and reality?

7. How is the anchore man described and why does

8. What were the reasons for his being on probation?

9. Being a very promising editor what was Terry sure of?

10. In spite of the fact that the whole programme was total chaos, why did the kids watch it?

VOCABULARY TASKS A Word search

I. Find a word or phrase in the text that has similar meaning.

1. Something that attracts someone to a situation they may wish they had avoided.

2. say something badly when acting a play

3. an annoying child who behaves badly

4. check their behaviour for a specific period of time.

5. to hate someone or something and have no respect for them.

6. something that makes one person or thing more likely to succeed that others.

7. a major change to make something look or operate better.

8. in charge, or in the position of a leader

II. Match these phrases with their definitions.

1. to lay the blame carefully arranged and looking nice

2. on probation in charge of, in the position of the leader 3.as far as srnb is not an important person concerned

4. neat as a pin so far as the matter is important

5. at the helm to say that someone is responsible for an

accident

6. a little fish a period of time during which someone

who has been given a new job is watched to see if he can do it

III. Collocation

Match the nouns as they occur together in the text

baseball caps

video tape programme

ex-art student

anchor man

quality tape

glass gallery

control panel

street credibility

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