Ask and answer with a partner. ask your partner questions using how long have and the phrases in the box. answer using for and since. live in your house. study english. like your favourite. be at school today have your favourite t-shirt. know your best friend.

1. The door is opened by you. 2. Questions were asked by us. 3.His project will be finished next week. 4. This exercise can be done. 5. I was invited by them to their conference. 6. A new film was seen by me. 7. Letters are written by my sister regularly. 8. New methods of students' train­ing are developed by universities. 9. A still higher degree might be got by students after graduating from the University. 10. The curricula of technological universities must be improved by the study of foreign languages, history and economics.

If young people wished to be actors-actresses earlier, modern school-leavers want to be journalists. They are attracted by a status of a free artist.

Some people think journalism is creativity, others - a craft, but it`s known: journalists will never change their uneasy profession to another. Constant change of events, talking with interesting people and active life attracts them a lot.

What is journalism? People answer differently. But there are some famous statements:

Journalism is romance.
Journalism is the Fourth power.
Journalism is newspapers and magazines.
Journalism is radio and television.
Journalism is correspondents.
Journalism is creativity.
Journalism is information.

And this list can be continued while journalism exists and creativity is necessary for people.

Journalist (fr. Jour - day) is a member of a periodical edition who picks, remakes information quickly, writes competently and well his interesting talks. Journalists make for us news in newspapers, on TV, radio and in the Internet. Because of that there are different journalist specializations:

- contributor of a periodical editions (newspapers, journals, magazines)
- journalists of electronic mass-media (TV, radio, Internet)
- photojournalists (sometimes photos aren`t only illustrations to an article, they can be a high-quality product).

Such trade as stringer has been widely spread recently. A stringer is an independent journalist who takes ideas and topics from hot places. It helps him to get the topical news directly from the event centre often with a risk to life. Often stringer-correspondent works as a regular journalist in some provincial broadcasting company, but he tries to earn money in the capital channel.

Today journalist works in a periodical edition, tomorrow he will be a TV or radio-correspondent. He often changes his specialization.