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Mindset for IELTS - Level 3 (Unit 07: Television, News And Current Affairs)

Reading - Matching Sentence Endings - (13-17)

This task requires you to match sentence beginnings with a list of possible endings (there will be more sentence endings than you need). Because the beginnings and endings will often all match grammatically and make sense, you can't guess the answers from grammatical or semantic clues. Instead, locate the part of the text mentioned in each sentence beginning and then read it in detail to identify the ending that matches.

13. Read the sentence beginning and two possible endings. Read the relevant part of the text (the second half of paragraph B) carefully and choose which one is correct.

The citizen journalist scoop on the Columbia Space Shuttle story is an example of

A. how we are interacting more with traditional media.
B. how participatory media is growing.

14. Complete each sentence with the correct ending (A-E) below.

1. Amateur journalists may lack the credentials of professionals
2. Newspaper editors were the gatekeepers of the news
3. Anyone could find themselves the subject of a news story

A. which means most of them are afraid of participatory journalism.
B. but now they can offer extra information to alter people's perceptions.
C. but this is less of a disadvantage than it used to be.
D. but formal qualifications are no longer required by media outlets.
E. but now they need to accept that this situation is changing.

GRAMMAR FOCUS: THE PASSIVE

15. Look at the passive sentence from the text. Identify the parts.

The traditional 'filter then publish' model has been replaced by 'publish then filter'.

1. the subject of the sentence

2. the agent

3. the past participle of the main verb

4. the verb 'to be' in the present perfect tense

5. the preposition introducing the agent

16. Rewrite the sentence from exercise 15 in the following tenses:

Present simple: The traditional 'filter then publish' model is replaced by 'publish then filter'.
Present continuous:
Past perfect:
Future simple with will:

17. Read these statements about the passive and say if they are true or false.

1. Any sentence can be changed from active into passive and vice-versa.
2. The passive helps the writer control the order of information in a sentence.
3. The passive is rarely used in spoken English.
4. Saying who or what did the action (the agent) is optional.
5. Academic English uses the passive voice fairly frequently.

Suggest answer

1. Some sentences would not make sense or would sound very wrong.For example, the active sentence I passed the IELTS test would sound wrong in the passive (The IELTS test was passed by me).

2. The passive allows us to shift focus from the person or thing doing an action to the person or thing affected by the action.

3. It is used a lot. However certain forms of the passive, such as those that use It as a subject (It is believed ..., It has been estimated ...) sound very formal when spoken.

4. Sometimes it is not important or relevant to say who or what does the action.For example, My bicycle was stolen- we don't need to say by a thief because this is understood.