Nowadays Kyiv is a large political, industrial, scientific and cultural centre. Its population is about 3 million. The city lies on both banks of the Dnieper. Kyiv is a garden city; only a seventh part of its territory is occupied by buildings.
Kyiv has a well-developed industry. Its factories and plants produce sea and river transport vessels, air liners, computers,motorcycles, consumer goods.
Kyiv is also one of the largest scientific centres. The Ukrainian Academy of Sciences and many research institutes are famous for their discoveries. More than 10 000 students study at Kyiv Shevchenko National University. There are over 20 higher educational establishments in Kyiv.
Kyiv is also the centre of political life in Ukraine. All major political events take place here.
Kyiv is the largest ancient centre of national Ukrainian culture. There are 20 museums, 1300 libraries, 41 theatres, 121 parks. Kyiv is growing and is being built, it also becomes younger and more beautiful.
1)News is broadcast at
regular intervals and there is discussion of current events, both national and
international.
2)The chanels of British television keep people informed about current events, the latest achievements in science and culture and offer some programmes which are both informative and entertaining.
3)Our family subscribes to some newspapers and the “Book review” magazine.
4)There is also serious concern about the negative effects of some TV shows in which scenes of violence and crime are presented.
5) In London people have a choice between a few TV channels: BBC1 , BBC2 and some commercial channels
6)And this is the difference
between the living theatre and the mass
entertainment of films, radio and television.
7) In future there will be some new kinds of mass media much more interesting than TV, radio and newspapers.
8) companies just “buy time” to advertise their products and the viewers have to watch advertisements for soap, washing machines, petrol and many other items during the programmes.
9)He doesn’t like tabloid newspapers because they’re full of gossip and scandal. He prefers more serious papers.