Advanced Vocabulary for IELTS 7.0 +: The Entertainment Industry and the Mass Media (Part 1)
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This blog on the “Advanced Vocabulary for IELTS 7.0+ : Entertainment Industry and the Mass Media (Part 1) strengthens your grasp of the list of vocabulary under the topic. These exercises sharpen fluency, accuracy, and lexical range for a Band 7.0+.
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The IELTS Writing and Speaking test expects you to use different words under the topic of “The entertainment and mass media.” The words under this topic can be used to describe favorite films, theatre experiences, or even cinematography concepts.
In order to boost your lexical resources score, it is not just enough to know the words alone, you must also master its verb, adjective, and noun collocations.
Hence, this blog will help you learn different words under the topic, “The entertainment and mass media” along with some practice exercises and explanations.
Why Focus on the Entertainment and Mass Media Vocabulary in IELTS?
Learning advanced entertainment and mass media terms is valuable for:
- IELTS Speaking Part 3: answering questions on movies, favorite activities, or even topics about mass media.
- IELTS Reading: understanding passages about entertainment, fun activities, cine media, and social media as well.
- IELTS Writing: discussing entertainment or mass media topics in the Task 2 essays.
Properly practicing with this list of vocabulary on the topic of entertainment and mass media, you will use precise vocabulary naturally, which directly boosts your lexical resource score.
Practice Exercise: The Entertainment Industry and the Mass Media
Marketing and Advertising
(a) Identify the verb-noun collocations by matching the verbs in Column 4 to the phrase-endings in Column B.
| Column A | Answer | Column B |
| (a) drum | (i) a marketing campaign | |
| (b) plug | (ii) up interest | |
| (c) launch | (iii) brand awareness | |
| (d)target | (iv) a niche | |
| (e) catch | (v) a product | |
| (f) corner | (vi) the viewer’s attention | |
| (g) create | (vii) a press release | |
| (h) issue | (viii) the market | |
| (i) reinvent | (ix) market research | |
| (j) carry out | (x) your brand | |
| (k) generate | (xi) goodwill |
(b) Match each word/phrase in Column A to the correct definition in Column B.
| Column A | Answer | Column B |
| (a) cold calling | (i) the point in time in the day after which adult-content programmes can be aired | |
| (b) mass marketing | (ii) the period of the day when the most viewers/ listeners are tuning in | |
| (c) subliminal messages | (iii) public exposure of your brand or company that is harmful | |
| (d) negative publicity | (iv) ringing someone on the telephone without invitation to | |
| (e) generic advertising | (v) targeting the whole market in your advertising campaign | |
| (f) prime time | (vi) information delivered to your subconscious | |
| (g) brand recognition | (vii) promoting not a single brand but a category or class of product | |
| (h) the classifieds | (viii) the specific pages of a newspaper or magazine arranged in categories that feature advertisements and jobs | |
| (i) the watershed | (ix) how well your brand is known in the target market and beyond | |
| (j) billboard / hoarding | (x) a short catchy tune or song used in a commercial | |
| (k) jingle | (xi) a well-known phrase associated with an ad / person | |
| (l) logo | (xii) a selection of people brought together whose responses to certain things are studied in the hope that this will give an insight into general market feeling | |
| (m) slogan/ catchphrase | (xiii) a symbol or design that identifies a product | |
| (n) focus group | (xiv) a large outdoor advertising sign |
(c) Use a selection of the words/phrases in Column A above to complete sentences 1-12 below. You will not need to use all the words/phrases in Column A, and you should not use any word/phrase more than once.
- I found a job that might be of interest to you in ___________ under ‘Teaching Posts’.
- They allow graphic imagery like that to be shown after ___________ .
- The ___________ has become a product in its own right; so catchy is it that it has entered the Billboard Top 100.
- MacDonald’s scores very highly in the ___________ stakes; it is one of the best-known in existence.
- ___________ advertising slots are always more expensive on account of the number of people tuning in.
- I think companies that engage in___________ are doing themselves more harm than good; after all, who wants to have to answer the phone to unsolicited callers?
- The ___________ gave us surprising feedback which may prompt us to rethink our market-entry strategy and product positioning.
- The Irish Tourism Board has begun a €20-million ___________ campaign on behalf of the hospitality industry.
- The unpopular artist craved attention, but not the type of ___________ she got when it was revealed that she was a tax dodger.
- Their ___________ has undergone a redesign to make it more distinctive and memorable to behold.
- It is claimed that the new army ad campaign is sending ___________ to young people encouraging them to join up.
- The ___________ became so well-known that even now, ten years on, it is more strongly associated with the brand than anything they’ve used since. As a result, they are considering using it again as the caption for some of their printed adverts.
Answer Key: The Entertainment Industry and the Mass Media
Marketing and Advertising
(a)
- ii
- v
- i
- iv
- vi
- viii
- iii
- vii
- x
- ix
- xi
(b)
- iv
- v
- vi
- iii
- vii
- ii
- ix
- viii
- i
- xiv
- x
- xiii
- xi
- xii
(c)
- the classifieds
- the watershed
- jingle
- brand recognition
- Prime time
- cold calling
- focus group
- generic advertising
- negative publicity
- logo
- subliminal messages
- slogan
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