Reporter: 3.Why did you start reading The New Yorker?
Jerry: This magazine is for the reader who likes good fiction, interesting essays, and exciting music and movie reviews. So, this magazine is just for me.
Reporter: 4. Do you have any magazine-reading rituals?
Jerry: I keep things very simple. No favorite chair but I do prefer to have a hot drink at hand. Usually I start at the back of the magazine and work my way to the front. Sometimes I sit cross-legged on the floor. Either way, it’s a wonderful way to spend part of an afternoon.
Unit 8, Lesson 7, ex.1 a) - Why will television never take place of newspapers?
- Have you ever tried swatting a fly with a television?
b) - What’s on television tonight, son?
- Same as usual, dad: the goldfish and a lamp.
c) - Knock, knock.
- Who’s there?
- Watson.
- Watson who?
- What’s on television?
d) - Knock, knock.
- Who’s there?
- Alison.
- Alison who?
- Alison to my radio.
Unit 8, Lesson 7, Ex. 3 Do you watch the news on TV or listen to it on the radio? Person 1: Yes, I sometimes watch the news on TV and listen to it on the radio.
Person 2: Yes, I do.
Person 3: Mostly on television. Not very often on the radio.
Person 4: No, I don’t. I don’t like the news.
Person 5: Yes, I’m interested in the news, but I mostly watch in on TV.
What programmes do you watch? Person 1: I watch gardening shows – I love gardening and shopping programmes, too. I watch other programmes as well.
Person 2: Various – from chat shows to lifestyle programmes.
Person 3: All the programmes I have time for: chat shows, game shows, dramas, sitcoms, music programmes, lifestyle programmes, soaps – all of them.
Person 4: I love watching anything on TV.
Person 5: Soaps, music programmes, chat shows, wildlife and animal programmes, DIY programmes, charity shows, you name it – the whole lot.
