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itechnika Poznańska | Studium Języków Obcych piece written for you. For a longer piece,
you must seek the non-obvious. This is
XII Ogólnopolska Olimpiada a good quality in the best of newspaper
Języka Angielskiego writing, but an absolute essential for any
dla studentów Wyższych writer who hopes to complete the terri-
Uczelni Technicznych fying amount of words that GQ requires.
If you write for GQ you are condemned
Etap II to try and join the best. There is no other
way. GQ is not restricted by the same
Write the answers on the answer sheet the way still, leaving the rest panting dis- conventions of reader expectation as a
provided. tantly in its wake. Sport, is of course, a newspaper. You need not worry about
blindingly obvious subject for a men's offending people or alienating them;
I. LISTENING COMPREHENSION magazine - but it could not be tacked in the whole ethos of the magazine is that
(5 x 1 point = 5 points) a blindingly obvious way. Certainly, one readers are there to be challenged. There
of the first things GQ was able to offer will be readers who would find some of
(…) here not included was a new way of writing about sport, its pieces offensive or even impossible in
but this was not so much a cunning a newspaper, or even in a different mag-
II. READING COMPREHENSION plan as a necessity. The magazine was azine. But the same readers will read the
(7 x 1 point = 7 points) doomed, as it were, to offer a whole new piece in GQ and find it enthralling. That
range of freedoms to its sport writers. is because the magazine is always slightly
You are going to read the introduction Heady and rather alarming freedoms. uncomfortable to be with. It is not like a
from a book on sports. For question 1-7, Freedom of vocabulary was simply the cozy member of the family, nor even like
choose the answer a, b, c, or d which most obvious one and, inevitably, it ap- a friend. It is the strong, self-opinionated
you think fits best according to the text. pealed to the schoolboy within us. But person that you can never quite make up
space and time were the others, and your mind whether you like or not. You
SPORTSWRITING these possibilities meant that the craft of admire him, but you are slightly uneasy
sports writing had to be reinvented. Un- with him. The people around him might
Offices and bars are full of casual ob- like newspapers, a magazine can offer not altogether approve of everything he
scenity, but most British newspapers are a decent length of time to research and says; some might not care for him at all.
... well, not necessarily careful about to write. These are, you would think, But they feel compelled to listen. The
language, but careful about bad words luxuries - especially to those of us who self-confidence is too compelling. And
anyway. The phrase 'family newspaper' is are often required to read an 800-word just when you think he is beginning to
an ineluctable part of our lives. News- match report over the telephone the in- become rather a bore, he surprises you
papers are not in the business of giving stant the final whistle has gone. Such a with his genuine intelligence. He makes
gratuitous offence. It is a limitation of discipline is nerve-racking, but as long as a broad joke, and then suddenly he is
newspaper writing, and one everybody you can get it done at all, you have done demanding you follow him in the turn-
in the business, whether writing or read- a good job. No one expects a master- ing of an intellectual somersault.
ing, understands and accepts. There are piece under such circumstances. In some
many other necessary limitations, and ways the ferocious restrictions make the 1. What does the writer say about news-
most of these concern time and space. job easier. But a long magazine deadline papers in the first paragraph?
Newspapers have dominated sports gives you the disconcerting and agora-
writing in Britain for years, and have phobic freedom to research, to write, to a. They tend not to include articles read-
produced their own totem figures and think. To write a piece for a newspaper, ers will find very challenging.
doyens. But ten years ago, a new player at about a quarter of the massive GQ b. Articles in them do not reflect the way
entered the game. This was the phenom- length, you require a single thought. people really speak.
enon of men's magazines; monthly mag- The best method is to find a really good c. They are more concerned with profit
azines for men that had actual words in idea, and then to pursue it remorselessly than with quality of writing.
them - words for actually reading. GQ to the end, where ideally you make a d. They fail to realize what kind of writ-
was the pioneer and, in my totally un- nice joke and bale out stylishly. If it is an ing would appeal to readers.
biased opinion as the long-term author interview piece, you look for a few good
of the magazine's sports column, it leads quotes, and if you get them, that's your 2. What does the writer imply in the sec-
ond paragraph?
a. GQ magazine contains articles that
are well worth reading.
b. Some of the more recent men's maga-
zines are unlikely to survive.
2 GŁOS POLITECHNIKI | MAJ 2011
you must seek the non-obvious. This is
XII Ogólnopolska Olimpiada a good quality in the best of newspaper
Języka Angielskiego writing, but an absolute essential for any
dla studentów Wyższych writer who hopes to complete the terri-
Uczelni Technicznych fying amount of words that GQ requires.
If you write for GQ you are condemned
Etap II to try and join the best. There is no other
way. GQ is not restricted by the same
Write the answers on the answer sheet the way still, leaving the rest panting dis- conventions of reader expectation as a
provided. tantly in its wake. Sport, is of course, a newspaper. You need not worry about
blindingly obvious subject for a men's offending people or alienating them;
I. LISTENING COMPREHENSION magazine - but it could not be tacked in the whole ethos of the magazine is that
(5 x 1 point = 5 points) a blindingly obvious way. Certainly, one readers are there to be challenged. There
of the first things GQ was able to offer will be readers who would find some of
(…) here not included was a new way of writing about sport, its pieces offensive or even impossible in
but this was not so much a cunning a newspaper, or even in a different mag-
II. READING COMPREHENSION plan as a necessity. The magazine was azine. But the same readers will read the
(7 x 1 point = 7 points) doomed, as it were, to offer a whole new piece in GQ and find it enthralling. That
range of freedoms to its sport writers. is because the magazine is always slightly
You are going to read the introduction Heady and rather alarming freedoms. uncomfortable to be with. It is not like a
from a book on sports. For question 1-7, Freedom of vocabulary was simply the cozy member of the family, nor even like
choose the answer a, b, c, or d which most obvious one and, inevitably, it ap- a friend. It is the strong, self-opinionated
you think fits best according to the text. pealed to the schoolboy within us. But person that you can never quite make up
space and time were the others, and your mind whether you like or not. You
SPORTSWRITING these possibilities meant that the craft of admire him, but you are slightly uneasy
sports writing had to be reinvented. Un- with him. The people around him might
Offices and bars are full of casual ob- like newspapers, a magazine can offer not altogether approve of everything he
scenity, but most British newspapers are a decent length of time to research and says; some might not care for him at all.
... well, not necessarily careful about to write. These are, you would think, But they feel compelled to listen. The
language, but careful about bad words luxuries - especially to those of us who self-confidence is too compelling. And
anyway. The phrase 'family newspaper' is are often required to read an 800-word just when you think he is beginning to
an ineluctable part of our lives. News- match report over the telephone the in- become rather a bore, he surprises you
papers are not in the business of giving stant the final whistle has gone. Such a with his genuine intelligence. He makes
gratuitous offence. It is a limitation of discipline is nerve-racking, but as long as a broad joke, and then suddenly he is
newspaper writing, and one everybody you can get it done at all, you have done demanding you follow him in the turn-
in the business, whether writing or read- a good job. No one expects a master- ing of an intellectual somersault.
ing, understands and accepts. There are piece under such circumstances. In some
many other necessary limitations, and ways the ferocious restrictions make the 1. What does the writer say about news-
most of these concern time and space. job easier. But a long magazine deadline papers in the first paragraph?
Newspapers have dominated sports gives you the disconcerting and agora-
writing in Britain for years, and have phobic freedom to research, to write, to a. They tend not to include articles read-
produced their own totem figures and think. To write a piece for a newspaper, ers will find very challenging.
doyens. But ten years ago, a new player at about a quarter of the massive GQ b. Articles in them do not reflect the way
entered the game. This was the phenom- length, you require a single thought. people really speak.
enon of men's magazines; monthly mag- The best method is to find a really good c. They are more concerned with profit
azines for men that had actual words in idea, and then to pursue it remorselessly than with quality of writing.
them - words for actually reading. GQ to the end, where ideally you make a d. They fail to realize what kind of writ-
was the pioneer and, in my totally un- nice joke and bale out stylishly. If it is an ing would appeal to readers.
biased opinion as the long-term author interview piece, you look for a few good
of the magazine's sports column, it leads quotes, and if you get them, that's your 2. What does the writer imply in the sec-
ond paragraph?
a. GQ magazine contains articles that
are well worth reading.
b. Some of the more recent men's maga-
zines are unlikely to survive.
2 GŁOS POLITECHNIKI | MAJ 2011
