SESSION 9: EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

SESSION 9: EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

NOTE: IN ORDER TO WORK WITH THE TEXT, UNDERSTAND AND PREPARE IT BETTER I RECOMMEND THESE EXERCISES:

THERE WILL BE TWO TYPES OF EXERCISES:

1. EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT: THESE ARE EXERCISES FOCUSING ON THE READING COMPREHENSION, WORKING WITH VOCABULARY AND EXPRESSIONS.

2. EXERCISES FOR DISCUSSION: EXERCISES FOCUSING ON THE PREPARATION FOR THE DISCUSSION.

1. EXERCISES WORKING WITH THE TEXT

1.1 TRUE/FALSE: Look at the article and guess whether these sentences are True (T) or False (F):
a. A clothes company has upset the Vatican over an advertisement.
b. The clothes company never usually uses shock tactics in its ads.
c. A Benetton ad shows a doctor kissing two religious leaders.
d. The Vatican is now happy that the ad is no longer being used.
e. A new ad campaign is aimed at getting people to like each other more.
f. Most of the leaders in the ads are actually kissing each other.
g. Representatives of a Cairo imam suggested the ads were ridiculous.
h. The Vatican is concerned about the feelings of Catholics worldwide.

1.2. SYNONYM MATCH: Match the following synonyms from the article:
1. campaign ............. a. falsified
2. mating ................ b. fight
3. doctored ............. c. withdrew
4. pulled ................. d. ridiculous
5. measures ............. e. drive
6. battle ................. f. kissing
7. seemingly ............ g. self-respect
8. smooching ........... h. breeding
9. absurd ................ i. apparently
10. dignity .............. j. actions

1.3 PHRASE MATCH: Match the following phrases from this article (sometimes more than one option is possible):
1. once again in .......................... a. absurd
2. The company has a history of ....... b. the headlines
3. photos of two horses ................. c. of hate
4. it has used doctored .................. d. measures
5. take the proper legal ................. e. Imam
6. battle the culture ...................... f. using shocking ads
7. political ................................. g. of the Pope
8. A spokesman for the .................. h. mating
9. irresponsible and ...................... i. photos
10. damaging not only to the dignity .. j. rivals

1.4 GAP FILL: Put the words into the gaps in the text:

PULLED - MATING - SHOCKING - LIPS - GIANT - FURTHER - COMPLAINTS - DOCTORED

The clothing (1) ____________ Benetton is once again in the headlines over a controversial advertising campaign. The company has a history of using (2) ____________ ads for its products. In the past it has used photos of two horses (3) ____________, an AIDS victim and a bloodied newborn baby on billboards and in magazines. This time it has used (4) ____________ photos of world leaders looking like they are kissing. One of these shows what looks like Pope Benedict XVI brushing (5) ____________ with Imam Ahmed el Tayyeb – one of Egypt’s top religious leaders and imam of Cairo’s al-Azhar. Benetton (6) ____________ the ad after (7) ____________ from the Roman Catholic Church. However, the Vatican has told its lawyers around the world to "take the proper legal measures" to stop (8) ____________ use.

SMOOCHING - RIVALS - DIGNITY - PART - BELIEVERS - SPOKESMAN - LIPS - ABSURD

Benetton’s new ads are (9) ____________ of a campaign called “Unhate,” which it says aims to "battle the culture of hate”. Similar images show political (10) ____________ seemingly with locked (11) ____________. These include Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas kissing the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, (12) ____________ North and South Korean leaders, US President Barack Obama kissing Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. A (13) ____________ for the Imam described the advertisement as "irresponsible and (14) ____________," while the Vatican said it was "damaging not only to the (15) ____________ of the Pope and the Catholic Church but also to the feelings of (16) ____________ ".