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If youre aged 16-25, were looking for
original articles of 1,000 words (or less) with an environmental or conservation theme. The closing date for entries is 30 December 2006.
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to convey complex ideas to readers of this general interest magazine in an engaging and authoritative manner.
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You are going to read a newspaper article. For questions 13 19, choose the answer (A, B, C
or D) which you think fits best according to the text.
Mark your answers on the separate answer sheet.
Groomed for TV
Martyn Harris looks back on his experience of being trained to appear on TV.
I am terrible on TV. I slouch, sneer, stammer,
fidget, forget my lines and swallow the ends of my
words. It rankles, because I know inside I am
scintillating, sensitive and sincere. Television can
make any fool look like
an
intellectual.
Newsreaders can contrive to look nice and even the
worst presenters can seem sensible, but I come over
as a shifty subversive. The single television
programme I have presented was so awful that even
my mother couldnt find a good word for it. After a
catastrophic radio show last year, when I addressed
the interviewer by the wrong name throughout, I
swore Id never do broadcasting again.
Until now, that is. I have my first novel out next
month, which is called Do It Again, and the PR
people inform me you just have to get out there and
promote it. Scotland one day, the south coast of
England the next. Its going to be hectic and I have
to get my act together. Which is how I find myself
being scrutinised for televisual potential by two
svelte creatures from Public Image Ltd, while
cameraman Alastair focuses on my trembling upper
lip. Public Image is the outfit which has been
teaching MPs how to look good on TV. They also
groom executives from major companies in
everything from corporate presentations to handling
broadcast interrogation, but as far as Im concerned,
if they can make politicians look like real people,
they are good enough for me.
He blinks a lot, doesnt he? says Diana, the
speech specialist, studying my image on a video
monitor. And the crossed legs look defensive. But
the voice isnt bad. Jeannie, who is introduced to
me as Public Images charisma consultant, takes a
step backwards to study the general posture. Needs
to get his bottom back in the sofa. And the jacket
makes him look a bit deformed. Where does he get
his clothes from?
Honesty is the most important thing, says
Diana. We dont want to turn people into actors.
We want to bring out the personality. And of course
speech is most important too. Lots of politicians
dont breathe properly, so they have to shout. They
give themselves sore throats and polyps on the vocal
chords. Breathe from the diaphragm and you can
speak quite loudly and for quite a long time without
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in the winter of 1978. Once again Walters uses her
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silly.which is full of suspense. Once
plotted bestseller
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rude.
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why she is such a star of British
Wendy, the outsider looking in, is able to glimpse the
crime fiction. predictable.
truth. But can she grasp its twisted logic in time to
a rather unexpected choice of central character
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prevent a tragedy whose roots lie buried deep in the
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an abundant amount of inconclusive information about a case
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says that she is only interested in doing it well.
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admits that sometimes it results in people looking foolish.
a character seeing through complexity in an attempt to avert disaster
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contemporary
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presents a great new heroine to the genre.
clues around to weave a tapestry, but its not clear
whos playing with whom. Is it the Wordman versus
the police, or the criminal versus his victims? And
just how far will the games go?
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Anjana Ahuja reviews a selection of science publications.
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Biographies are always coveted possessions. I recommend two of this years crop. The first is Oliver Sackss poignant memoir, Uncle Tungsten. It is a story
of a strange childhood bound up with the history of chemistry. Sacks, a neurologist who has written eloquent accounts (Awakenings, The Man Who
Mistook His Wife For a Hat) of how strange the human mind can be, dreams that elements in the Periodic Table are his friends. It is, admittedly, a slightly
bizarre book, but written with elegance and compassion.
My second suggestion is The Northern Lights, Lucy Jagos fictionalised account of the life of Kristian Birkeland. He was a Norwegian scientist who tried to
understand the Aurora Borealis, the dancing coloured lights that streak across polar skies. Birkeland, born in the middle of the 19th century, was a textbook
eccentric: obsessive, absent-minded and disorganised. As Jago explains, his theory that the dancing lights arose from the interplay between the Earths
magnetic field and charged particles streaming from the sun
was largely disregarded. It is a perfect winter tale of ice and light. However, some may find the blurring of fact and fiction, and the excitable speculation
about Birkelands final years a little trying.
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