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Задание 1

You are going to read the newspaper article about people who go to watch TV programmes being made. Choose from the list A-I the sentence which best summarises each part 1-7 of the article. There is one extra sentence which you don’t need. There is an example at the beginning.

A Studio audiences consist of all kinds of people.

B For some people, being in a studio audience is preferable to watching television at home.

C Common ideas about what happens when you are in a studio audience are not always correct

D Studio audiences play an important part in the making of a television programme

E Members of stidio audiences are sometimes not regarded with respect

F Despite the disadvantages, it is enjoyable to be in a studio audience.

G It is hard for some people to understand the reasons for wanting to be in a studio audience

H People become part of a studio audience for various reasons

I Viewers wonder what kind of people are in studio audiences

STUDIO AUDIENCES

What’s it like to be in the audiences when a television programme is being made? Cosmo Landesman found out.

0 –I

Like technical difficulties, studio audiences are just another common feature of television life, and yet to many of us they remain a mystery. Watching them getting excited on game shows, for example, we sit back and ask ourselves – just who are these people?

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Of all the audiences for live entertainment, the studio variety is widely considered to be the lowest of the low. I have heard it said that even people who work in television treat studio audiences with scorn – or, as one cameraman put it, ‘’like cattle’’.

2 –

I had assumed that studio audiences were made up of silly people desperate for two seconds of fame. But there’s no such thing as a typical studio audience. They come from all classes, professions and income groups. Television tries to attract different types of people for different type of programme.

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Those of us who prefer to watch television from home can’t see why anyone would want to watch television from a studio. Why would anyone bother to apply for tickets, travel long distances, and suffer hours of boredom in the discomfort of a studio just to watch what they can see at home?

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One theory is that people hope that for a second they might appear on television. I didn’t believe this until I spoke to Angela. Why had she come? ‘’It was a chance to appear on television.’’ Another theory is that people are curious to take a look behind the scenes. But the most common explanation I heard was simply a case of ‘’a friend gave me a ticket’’.