单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,Chapter 9 Press,Radio and Television,CONTENTS,Teaching Aims,Text A,Text B,Supplementing Reading,TEACHING AIMS,After studying this,unit,you are,required to,:,1.,H,ave a general idea of,British media.,2.,Learn something about British newspapers.,3,.,M,aster the difficult words and expressions,.,Text A,Introduction to British Media,TEXT A Preview,传媒业在英国相当兴旺。在英国这样一个拥有6000多万人口的国家，报纸、杂志、书籍、电视、播送以及各种音像制品等传媒，在人们日常生活中几乎无所不在。而且由于英语在当今国际交流中的主导地位以及英国在国际社会中的独特角色，英国的新闻产品和英文节目跨越和占据了世界传媒幅员上的大局部角落，并享有不可撼动的地位。,TEXT A,Reading,C,omprehension,Read the following sentences and decide whether they are trueT)or falseF),1.Watching TV is the most popular leisure activity to British people.,2.Daily Mirror operates 240 local and regional newspapers in the UK,as well as national newspapers such as the Trinity Mirror and the Sunday Mirror.,3.Normally,if UK households with a television set fail to pay the fee by which the BBC is funded,they will be punishable by prosecution,resulting in a fine or imprisonment.,TEXT A,Reading,C,omprehension,4.Many local radio stations are operated as independent entities rather than owned by large radio groups.,5.The Press Association is based in London,Nottingham(photographic department)and Howden and has correspondents throughout Britain.,6.Newspapers are traditionally classified into two types in the United Kingdom:Broadsheets which are smaller in size and tabloids which are bigger in size.,TEXT A Notes,1.,Virgin Media,:,Virgin Media(officially Virgin Media Inc.)is a company which provides television,fixed and mobile telephone and broadband internet services to domestic and business customers in the United Kingdom.Its executive office is in New York City,United States and its operational headquarters are in Hook,United Kingdom.,TEXT A Notes,2.,BskyB,：,British Sky Broadcasting Group(a.k.a.BSkyB;trading as Sky)is a public company satellite broadcasting company operating in the United Kingdom and Ireland.It is the largest pay-TV broadcaster in the United Kingdom with over 10 million subscribers.British Sky Broadcasting was formed in 1990 by the equal merger of Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting.,TEXT A Notes,3.Freesat：Freesat is a free-to-air digital satellite television joint venture between the BBC and ITV plc,serving the United Kingdom.The service was formed as a memorandum in 2007 and has been marketed since 6 May 2021.Freesat offers a satellite alternative to the Freeview service on digital terrestrial television,with a broadly similar selection of channels available without subscription for users purchasing a receiver.The service also makes use of the additional capacity available on digital satellite broadcasting to offer a selection of high-definition programming from the BBC,ITV,Channel 4 and NHK.,TEXT A Notes,4.,The Thomson Corporation,:The Company was founded by Roy Thomson in 1934 in Ontario as the publisher of The Timmins Daily Press.In 1953 Thomson acquired the Scotsman newspaper and moved to Scotland the following year.He consolidated his media position in Scotland in 1957 when he won the franchise for Scottish Television.In 1959 he bought the Kemsley Group giving him control of the Sunday Times.He separately acquired the Times in 1967.He moved into the airline business in 1965,when he acquired Britannia Airways and into oil and gas exploration in 1971 when he participated in a consortium to exploit reserves in the North Sea.,TEXT A Notes,In the 1970s,following the death of Lord Thomson,the Company withdrew from media selling the Times,the Sunday Times and Scottish Television and instead moved into publishing,buying Sweet&Maxwell in 1987.In 1989,Thomson Newspapers was merged with The Thomson Corporation.In 1996 The Thomson Corporation effectively doubled its size and ensured future profitability by purchasing West Publishing,a purveyor of legal research and solutions including Westlaw.,TEXT A New Words and Expressions:,vital,vaitl,adj.,极其重要的；必不可少的,It is,vital,to use the first assessment to establish an ongoing data collection and analysis system.,首次进行灾难评估时建立起不间断的数据收集和数据分析系统很重要。,2.,engender,indend,vt,.,使产生；造成；引起,This would,endanger,the many people using the recreational areas around the north side of the volcano at Spirit Lake.,这将危及使用斯必利特湖火山北坡周围休养地的许多人。,TEXT A New Words and Expressions:,3.chartered t:td adj.受特许的；领有执照的,He sent us an order on the chartered bank.,他寄给我们一份由特许银行付款的汇票。,accrue kru:vt.积累；获得,If fixed costs are covered by a company s domestic operations,then profits will accrue even faster from exporting.,如果以公司的内销就能收回固定本钱，那么利润会因为出口而增长得更快。,TEXT A New Words and Expressions:,5.,compulsory kmplsri adj.,必须做的；义务的；强制的，强迫的,They are not obliged to accept citizenship nor pay extraordinary,compulsory,taxes.,他们没有义务接受公民的身份，也不会被要求支付额外的强制税。,prosecution,prsikju:n,n.,起诉，检举；控告，控方,Sri