Writing. Part 2. Домбровская И.В - 54 стр.

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        However, there are also many drawbacks. The main one is the long hours
that go with it. Many executives work ten hours a day, six days a week, and as a
result their personal and social lives suffer. Executives also tend to suffer from
stress and this, combined with long hours and a generally unhealthy lifestyle,
can seriously affect their physical and mental well-being.

Exercise 6
Read the article below and give your comments as if an examiner. While
assessing, try to identify who the article is written for (a general audience,
businesspeople, adults or teenagers), what the purpose is (to entertain,
inform, persuade etc), whether the register is formal, neutral or informal.

                              Reaching for the stars
        Many celebrities find the price of fame too much.
        He looks tired, anxious and as if he hasn’t slept for days. He has stubble
on his chin and his eyes are red. He glances quickly over his shoulder and runs
into the hotel lobby, but he’s not escaping from the police. He’s escaping from
people who love him. And love him too much.
        This man is an Italian film star who can earn three million dollars for a
movie, who drives a Ferrari, and has several expensive homes. But, like many
others in his profession, he claims he doesn’t enjoy his life. Every time he leaves
his house he has to pass through a group of fans who are not satisfied with an
autograph. They want to touch him, take photographs, and much more.
        Last month, one fan managed to break into his apartment and look
around, before she was arrested by police. He says, ‘At first I loved all the
attention, it was very flattering, but now I have no privacy. It’s like being in
prison.’
        This man is not alone. Another star got so fed up with her fans’ desire to
touch her that she now employs three bodyguards. ‘I need them. I can’t walk
down the street without their protection,’ she says.
        So when the Italian actor leaves the hotel he has a scarf pulled around the
face, dark glasses, and another man leaves just before him, dressed in identical
clothes.

                                      Reports
                     Answer the following T/F statements.
1)   A survey report is written in a formal style.
2)   Present tenses cannot be used in reports assessing good and bad points.
3)   Linking words are not important in reports.
4)   Subheadings, numbers or letters can be used to divide the report into
     sections.