ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
A Openings and closings page 122
B Reviews page 128
At least one of t hetasks in Paper2 can beexpectedto involvew riting for
publication. Suchtasksinclude anarticle,areviewand a piece of writingfor a
comp etition,all for publication in anEnglish-language magazine. The publication
is somet imes described not as a magazine but as a newspaper, orsometimes as
anewsletter(a thin, home-mad emagazine, sen t t o memb ersof a clubor
society).Alway s readthe instructionsfort he task carefullyto get a clear idea of
whoyou are w ritingfor.
Other writ ing tasksfor publication includearticles for guide booksand tourist
brochures, andleaflets andinformationsheets: these areall dealt with in Unit 10.9A Openingsandclosings
1.0 Model
Thefollowing arti cleappeared in theRadioTimesmagazin e,to introduce aTV
season of Brit ishfilms fromthe 1960s. The firs t andlast paragraphhave been
removed.Rea d the artic le, then chooset he best firstparagraphandlast
paragraph fromthoseprintedopposite. Make surethat t he opening, t he textand
theclosingallfit together.which presented Sean Co nnery to an
appreciative inte rnat io nal a udience.
Gener a lly speaki ng, ho we ve r, the
re turn swe r e le ssthanthe bean counte rs
I had expected.
17 All ina ll,then, backingBritainhad not
j be en a verylucrative venturefor the
Hollywoodstud ios. and inthe end they
w ithdrew th eir financial su p po rt,
le avingus toreflect ruefully that what
hado nce seemeda newawakeningwas
afterallno more thana fa lsedawn.
8 The cinema her e has ne ver re all y
recoveredfromth at setb ac k. True ,the
'60sunea rthed arich cro pof people,
m:.lIlYofwhom are stillaround, but no
British money was fo rthcomingtomake
u p for the los s of America n backing,
a ndsothe indigenous mo vieindustry
beganitsslide towards the sor rystate
weseetoday.
9 (Lastparagraphm issing)Some films succeeded there, of course -
Darlinga ndTomj on esa mo ngthe m.to
saynothi ng ofthe Jame sBon dpicture s.4 The g reat flurry of activitythai such
people provok ed bro ug ht its arti stic
rewards. Darling, for insta nce , won
Oscars for its sta r,Julie Ch ristie, and
writer, Fred eri ckRa pha el, and a
nomination fo r its d i rector. J o h n
Schlesinger. Oh, belie veme, opt imism.
confidence and e u pho ria ran high -
until theve rye nd of thedecadewhen.
a ll ato nce. thew ho le houseof cards
I collapsed.
I 5'x'harwe had fa iled 10 re alize wastha i
th isapparen treb irth of the Britishfilm
industrywas funde dalmos te nt ire lyby
America n mo ney. And thou gh th e
mo vies d id pretty we llin Britain and
weregreatlyresp e cted th roughout the
world ,theyfaredrath erbad l y whe re it
really counted- at the Amer ican bo x
office.1 ( Fi rstparag raphmissing)
2 The rewas a sudde nflo wer ing of new
acting ta lent; the re we r ene wwrite rs
and d ir ectors;therewas an outbreak of
moviesthat lo ok ed. sha rply andw ittily,
at aspec tsofBritishw or king-class life
tha t had rar elybeenexplored before.
Films we rechurnedout inre mar kable
numbers - 76 of them in 1 968. for
example , co mpa re d with thean n ua l 25
or sothat wecan managethesedays.
3 Before [he1960sBritish actors were , or
anywa y had(Qa ppe arto be, middle-
classunl essthey were co ntenttoplay
se rvants o r provide com ic relief. But
nowthis wasno lo nge r( fU C,and we
sawtheburgeoning of starsfromother
sectorso f society,people likeMichael
Caineand Tere nceStam p. Alo ngwith
themcamean energeticgenera tionof
directorsandw rite rs tointroducestro ng 6
eleme nts of social consc ious ness into 1
Britishfilms.122 • Task types