A. You will hear a recording. Below is a transcription of the recording. Some words in the transcription differ from what the speaker(s) said. As you listen, circle the words that are different.
“No news is good news” may be true for most of us most of the time- after all, we don’t look forward to unpleasant things happening to us – but “Bad news is good news ” is true for those who work in the news media, and, I suspect, for the rest of us, at least some of the time. It is tied up with stories and our
seemingly unsatisfied need for stories. Have you ever been grasped by a story where nothing goes wrong for the characters? There’s an accident in a Kingsley Amis novel that nicely illuminates this: the main character Jake comes home to find his wife chatting to a friend about a hairdresser both women know
who has moved with his family to somewhere in Africa. Jake listens in, expecting tales of cannibalism and such like, but no, the friend has just received a letter saying they love the place and are settling in nicely. Jake leaves the room in disgrace.
We demand to be entertained, and while we don’t object to a happy ending, the characters have to have experienced loss, pain and hardship in one form or another along the way to have earned it.
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Solution
"No news is good news" may be true for most of us most of the time- after all, we don't look forward to unpleasant things happening to us - but "Bad news is good news " is true for those who work in the news media, and, I suspect, for the rest of us, at least some of the time. It is tied up with stories and our seemingly unsatisfied (insatiable) need for stories. Have you ever been grasped (gripped) by a story where nothing goes wrong for the characters? There's an accident (incident) in a Kingsley Amis novel that nicely illuminates (illustrates) this: the main character Jake comes home to find his wife chatting to a friend about a hairdresser both women know who has moved with his family to somewhere in Africa. Jake listens in, expecting tales of cannibalism and such like, but no, the friend has just received a letter saying they love the place and are settling in nicely. Jake leaves the room in disgrace (disgust).
We demand to be entertained, and while we don't object to a happy ending, the characters have to have experienced loss, pain and hardship in one form or another along the way to have earned (deserved) it.
B. You will hear a recording. Below is a transcription of the recording. Some words in the transcription differ from what the speaker(s) said. As you listen, circle the words that are different.
Leisure travel was, in a sense, a British invention. This was mostly due to economic and social factors; Britain was the first country to become fully industrialized, and industrial society offered greater numbers of people time for leisure. This, coupled with improvements in transport, especially the railways, meant that large numbers of people could get to holiday resorts in a very short time.
Modern mass tourism of a sort we can easily recognize today began in 1841 when Thomas Cook organized the first packet tour, in which everything was included in the price – travel, hotel and entertainment. To cater for the large numbers of new holiday-makers, holiday camps were established, both on the coast and in the countryside, and they became immensely popular. Their popularity declined, however, with the rise of cheap overseas tours, which gave many people their first opportunity to travel about.
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Solution
Leisure travel was, in a sense, a British invention. This was mostly (mainly) due to economic and social factors; Britain was the first country to become fully industrialized, and industrial society offered greater (growing) numbers of people time for leisure. This, coupled with improvements in transport, especially the railways, meant that large numbers of people could get to holiday resorts in a very short time.
Modern mass tourism of a sort we can easily recognize today began in 1841 when Thomas Cook organized the first packet (package) tour, in which everything was included in the price (cost) - travel, hotel and entertainment. To cater for the large numbers of new holiday-makers, holiday camps were established, both on the coast and in the countryside, and they became immensely popular. Their popularity declined, however, with the rise of cheap overseas tours, which gave many people their first opportunity to travel about (abroad).