Listening Exercises for you 2

Private Lives - Part 2 

Here is the second part of the BBC learning series called “private lives” along with a quiz and its script. As the previous one first download the audio file and take the quiz and then download the PDF file and check your answers. I hope you enjoy it.

Quiz:

1. Almost any piece written in a newspaper or magazine on a particular subject can be called________.

a) the news agenda      

b) an article

c) a column

d) a page

2. ________ is a regular section of a newspaper usually written by the same person.

a) a column

b) an article

c) the news agenda

d) a page

3. If we say, 'the newspapers are __________ a certain event', it means they are reporting the news about it.

a) publishing

b) editing

c) covering

d) printing

4. When an event is so important that newspapers put their reports on it on the first page, we can use the term _____________.

a) a front page story

b) a chief page report

c) boss of the news

d) hard news

5. A journalist who is the main correspondent on key stories in a certain area (e.g. business, local news etc.) and has a team of junior reporters working in the same area is a ________ reporter.

a) hard news

b) front

c) boss

d) chief

6. An 'edition' of a newspaper is ____________.

a) its version targeted at people living in a particular area

b) all of its copies published at the same time

c) one of the many times that the newspaper is published

d) any of the above

You can download the audio file here: private_lives_2.mp3 (5.11 mb)