Angol ujságolvasási és forditási gyakorlatok [antikvár]

- 1 -PREFACEBritish newspapers have a special -vocabulary and style v/hich may seem difficult to understand even for the advanced learner of Englie'i. This "book, designed for upper-intermediate and advanced students, aims to help them understand this special language and encourages them to read faster and more efficiently.The book offers a broad selection of articles accompanied by advertisements, cartoons, theatre reviews, etc. to make it lively and interesting. The extracts are all taken from British newspapers, with the exception of a few in unit 3, which come from the Hungarian "Daily News",The book is divided into 14 units. Each unit, except the first one, corresponds to a section or page in a newspaper. The units follow the order in which their subject matter generally appear in a British newspaper.Almost all units have more than one section. Each section contains newspaper extracts followed by exercises to improve reading skills. Some aim at a better understanding of newspaper headlines; others try to improve the students' skills in identîly-.ing _ the subject matter /i.e. skimmin?/, reading for specific information /i.e. scanning/ or finding the central idea of the articles. These exercises are meant to be done as quickly as possible in order to increase the general speed of reading and understanding. The articles can, of course, be studied in