Методические указания по английскому языку для студентов 3-5 курсов исторического факультета. Часть 1. Коныгина Г.И. - 13 стр.

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That is the end of Part 3. Now turn to Part 4.
                                           Part 4.
You will hear an interview with someone who started a news service called Children’s
Express. For questions 24-30, choose the best answer A, B or C.
You now have one minute in which to look at Part 4.
Presenter: Welcome back. I’m talking to Bob Wilson, who started Children’s Express,
which is an organization that supplies reports and articles to newspapers, magazines and
TV and radio stations in the US. And as we heard before the break, Children’s Express
is entirely staffed by children - they do the interviews, they put together the reports.
Bob, is it intended that the children should become journalists?
Bob: Well, although many of them do, it’s really about children beginning to look at the
world in a different way, beginning to think about the serious issues in the world today.
We want them to be responsible citizens when they grow up and in the meantime, they
have some powerful messages to deliver to the adult world. And of course, if kids get
responsibility for covering the world, it’s amazing how interested they become - you
know, they begin to read newspapers and news magazines, they think about issues, so
it’s a really stimulating exercise for them.
Presenter: Now tell me about your youngsters. How old are they and where do they
come from?
Bob: They range from eight to eighteen. They’re broken down into reporters and editors
- the reporters are thirteen and under and they’re guided by editors who are fourteen to
eighteen years old. All the training is done by the teenage editors, there’s no adult
involvement at all - the training is passed down from generation to generation. The kids
come from the widest possible backgrounds. There are kids from poor economic
backgrounds and we’ll get some middle-class kids as well, so it’s a real mix.
Presenter: And, erm, where have their stories appeared?
Bob: Well, we’ve done television and we’ve done radio on the most important radio
shows in public radio in the US, and, uh, we’ve gone into major newspapers and been
published in features sections of newspapers which are read by adults. So we’re very
proud of the adult readership, they’re the ones after all that have the vote and the
influence.
Presenter: That’s quite an achievement isn’t it, to have reached a situation where in
fact you’re taken very seriously by serious newspapers.
Bob: We have a major newspaper that we report for every week, we do a full page for
the Indianapolis Star every week. They did a readership survey and they found that