Plan: Introduction

Chapter 3. Methodical recommendations

Following activities and exercises can be done during the practical and theoretical lessons on stylistics

Exercises
Exercise 1. Read the article. Comment on its vocabulary and syntactical patterns. Identify its status in accord with the basic newspaper features.
TWO REPORTERS KILLED IN IRAQ
Dominic Timms, The Guardian,
Friday, May 7, 2004
The death toll among journalists working in Iraq reached another grim landmark today after gunmen opened fire on reporters, killing two and injuring a third; bringing the number of media fatalities in the Gulf conflict to 30.
The two journalists, who worked for Polish state television, were killed after a car they were driving in ran over a mine and was fired upon by unidentified gunmen, according to Lt Col Robert Strzelecki, a spokesman for Polish forces in Iraq. Waldemar Milewicz was killed together with an Algerian journalist travelling with him, who has yet to be identified.
The third journalist, cameraman Jerzy Ernst, was wounded in the arm and airlifted to an American hospital. All three worked for the Polish TVP station.
The two men were killed near the town of Mahmoudiyah, 20 miles south of Baghdad, local police said. They were travelling on a highway linking the Iraqi capital with Najaf and Karbala, scenes of fighting between local militias loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Two CNN journalists were killed in the area in January. Translator and producer Duraid Isa Mohammed and driver Yasser Khatab died of multiple gunshot wounds after the convoy they were traveling in came under attack.
The latest killings come just hours after US president George Bush appeared on Iraqi TV in a damage limitation exercise, after pictures of US soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners were broadcast around the Arab world. The PR exercise was widely scorned across the region after Mr. Bush stopped short of making a public apology; When the President of the United States of America comes to Arab TV and tries to talk about this issue, people are expecting an apology. If he did the apology yesterday, that would be something very, very helpful; said Ilukman Ahmed, a journalist for al-Arabiya TV, who interviewed the president.
Today’s deaths bring the number of journalists killed around the world in the last year to 44, the highest level in nearly a decade, according to figures published by press freedom campaigners Reporters Sans Frontieres.
The majority of the deaths occurred in Iraq, which has turned into one of the most dangerous wars ever for the media. Among them was Terry Lloyd, the ITN journalist killed at the start of the war in Iraq in March 2003, when his convoy came under fire from American troops.
The president of RSF, Pierre Veilletet, described the last 12 months as a; black year;.