Thursday, November 28, 2024

Museums

Choose from here:


The Natural History Museum (London);

The Maritime Museum of San Diego, the USA; 
Madame Tussauds; 
Anne Frank House; 
Automobile Museum, Mulhouse, France;
The Tank Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York; 
The State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia; 
The Louvre, Paris, France; 
The Science Museum, London, the UK



1) ___________ was a medieval fortress and the palace of the kings of France before becoming a museum two centuries ago. Main attractions: “Venus de Milo,” “Winged Victory of Samothrace,” and Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa.”






2) ________ occupies six buildings along the Neva River, the leading structure being the confection-like Winter Palace. This gloriously baroque structure was finished in 1764 and over the next several centuries was the main residence of the czars. Catherine the Great founded the museum that same year when she purchased 255 paintings from Berlin.  


3) _______ is the largest museum in the Western Hemisphere. Main attractions: “Adam and Eve,” the well-known engraving by Albrecht Dürer. 






4) Here, in  __________  70 million or so specimens, lies the evidence of what man has learned of all facets of creation over the last 250 years. So important is this collection, that parts of it have been presented over the centuries as evidence used to debate and argue the age of the planet and the evolution of life.



5) ________ is a wax museum in London with smaller museums in a number of other major cities. The museum was named after the wax sculptor who founded it. 







6) _______ is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist. During World War II, she hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms at the rear of the 17th-century canal house, known as the Secret Annex. The museum opened on 3 May 1960 and preserves the hiding place, has a permanent exhibition and has an exhibition space about all forms of persecution and discrimination.


7) _______ is a major museum in London. It was founded in 1857 and today is one of the city's major tourist attractions, attracting 3.3 million visitors annually. Like other publicly funded national museums in the United Kingdom, _______  does not charge visitors for admission. 








8)  ______ is built around the Schlumpf Collection of classic automobiles. It has the largest displayed collection of cars and contains the largest and most comprehensive collection of Bugatti motor vehicles in the world.

9) _______ was established in 1948, preserves one of the largest collections of historic sea vessels in the United States. 

10) ______ is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles in South West England.  With almost 300 vehicles on exhibition from 26 countries it is the largest collection of fighting vehicles and the third largest collection of armoured vehicles in the world.

Broadcasting the News

 1) Open Office.com PowerPoint presentation.

2) Share your document with your deskmate. 

3) Create a title slide together - what's the name of your channel / news programme, add your names 

4) Choose 1 domestic news - add only the headline and a relevant image. Take notes. 

5) Choose 1 international news. 

6) Choose 1 business and finance news.

7) Choose 1 sports news.

8) Choose 1 news for the gossip column / fake news

9) Decice which news is your breaking news and has to be the first. Move that slide to the front. 

10) Make sure you have divided your roles - who is reporting each news. 

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Media: Vocabulary

Task 1: Browse the newspaper Postimees and find:

1) front page

2) headlines

3) an article

4) review

5) advertising

6) the slogan of the newspaper

7) date, price, sequence number

8) domestic news

9) a poll or a survey

10) international news

11) editorial

12) business and finance

13) arts and entertainment

14) review 

15) sports column / section

16) health and beauty

17) classified ads (find real estate, vechicles, announcements, services)

18) obituaries

19) horoscopes

20) games and crosswords

21) weather forecast

22) birthdays

23) Tv and radio guide

24) who's the editor-in-chief (EIC)

25) who's the editor of sports column

26) who's the publisher

27) letter(s) from the reader


Task 2: Extra words about media

 Definitions: HERE

biased

censorship

credibility

free press

editorial

fake news / disinformation

mainstream media / mass media

obituaries

paparazzi

press conference

print media

propaganda

clickbait

hacker

influencer

phishing

troll

viral

whistle-blower

________

billboard

anchor

primetime



Thursday, November 21, 2024

A False Start

 1. Who is in the photo?




2. What is this thing used for? Which company invented it? (clue: it can be used in the kitchen and it's a company known for electronic devices)


 3. Who is in the photo? 

4. What is the name of this artist?


5. What's his name?


6. This achieved something very remarkable. What did he do?




Thursday, November 7, 2024

Honours System

Task 1: Let's discuss

 1) Do you think we should select the best teacher, give titles to the best mother or father, vote for the best athletes etc? Does being popular and well-known mean the person is the best? 

2) Do you know the honours system used in Estonia? Who selects the nominees? Where do the ceremonies take place?

3) What do you know about the Nobel Prize?

4) Which awards do you  know that are given for films or best songs? 

5) Why some people don't accept the awards or titles they are given?


Task 2: Watch. British honours system: VIDEO


Task 3: Study the words

Duke / Duchess (hertsog / hertsoginna)

Marquess / Marchioness (markii / markiis)

Earl / Countess (krahv / krahvinna)

Viscount / Viscountess (vikont / vikontess)

Baron / Baroness (parun / paruness)

The Houses of Parliament / British Parliament: The House of Commons (650 members) and The House of Lords / (Peers) (790 members)

British honours: honours (6 different orders of chivalry, 4 orders of merit), decorations (to recognize special deeds, usually given to military forces) and medals (given for special service, long service or conduct)

Knight / Lady 

Commander

Companion

Sir / Dame


Tuesday, November 5, 2024