Английский язык:1) Просмотрите текст. Какие из предложений верные/ неверные. 2)Ответьте на вопросы своими словами:

11-year-old Damon Weaver had only been reporting for his school’s TV channel in Florida for a short time when he got what all reporters dream of: a scoop with a celebrity. Damon’s school teacher thought that the young reporter’s exclusive interview with rapper LL Cool J was so good that he posted a video of it on YouTube™. The clip got thousands of hits from people all over the USA and soon went viral. Damon’s online success gave him a great idea. For some time, he had wanted to become the youngest American to interview a president. So he launched a video campaign on YouTube to convince the White House. Finally, Barack Obama agreed to a ten minute face-to-face encounter. Since then, Damon’s presidential exclusive has had thousands of hits from all over the world on YouTube and many prestigious newspapers have run the story. Damon is now more convinced than ever that he wants to become a journalist. Although Damon was probably the youngest journalist to use online media so successfully, he wasn’t the first person to see the potential of internet broadcasting for achieving his dreams. Since YouTube began in 2005, thousands of ‘wannabe’ film makers, performers and artists have been posting videos of themselves in the hope of becoming overnight stars. In Spain, El Koala shot to fame after his song became an online summer hit. Two years later, an 11-year-old British boy was invited to sing at one of the media events of the decade, the funeral of music legend
Michael Jackson. The King of Pop had seen Shaheen Jafargholi’s cover version of one of his songs on YouTube and liked it. However, the new media isn’t only about becoming famous for 15 minutes. Some promising careers have started there too. Last year, a young unemployed make-up artist from northern England, Lauren Luke, started filming demonstrations of her work
from her bedroom and posting them on YouTube. Since then, her videos have had over 56 million hits worldwide, she has appeared on the BBC© and been featured in national newspapers in Britain. Two top cosmetic companies have even asked her to work for them. So, it would seem that technology is changing the nature of the relationship between the media and the public. Newspaper editors and TV or radio presenters used to have the power to tell their audience what was important or cool. However, since broadband Internet and the arrival of YouTube revolutionised the broadcasting industry, it’s been getting less and less clear who’s setting the agenda.


Задание 1 Просмотрите текст. Какие из предложений верные/ неверные
1)Damon Weaver interviewed LL Cool J on YouTube™.
2)Damon was one of several young journalists to interview the US president.
3)Damon was the first person to use YouTube to become famous.
4)Michael Jackson was familiar with Shaheen Jafargholi’s singing before he died.
5)Lauren Luke got a job by posting a video on YouTube.

Задание 2 Ответьте на вопросы своими словами:
1)How has YouTube influenced the life of Damon Weaver?
2)Why does the text say that YouTube has the potential for helping people to achieve their dreams?
3)Why does the text say that YouTube is not only about becoming famous for 15 minutes?
4)What similarities are there between the examples of Lauren Luke and Damon Weaver?
5)What, according to the text, is responsible for changing the way the media and its audience relate to each other?