TV3 Unit 6

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Unit 6 The media and the message

Reading and vocabulary - Who controls the news?

News

How often do you read the news?

Where do you get your news from?

In a Google Doc or your notebook

Read: Armed with a smartphone.

Do exercise 2 and 3

Finished? 

Do exercise 4, 5 and 6 in SB or exercise 1, 2, 3 and 4 Online WB+.

Grammar and listening - The big picture

What types of advertising can you think of?

What do you think is the correct order of the pictures on page70-71?

What do you think is happening?

Speculation

Speculation is something that we do a lot. We also use a lot of modals for it.

You might use the wrong modals if you don't practice enough.

Therefore do exercises 3, 4 and 5 SB or  exercises 1, 2, and 3 of the online WB+.

Speculation

• What can you see?
• Why do you think it's there?
• How might people react?
• What might be its purpose? 

Speculation - Advertising

Find an advertisement that you really like or really despise.

Speculate about the following things:

- Who is the target audience of the advertisement?

- What might be its purpose?

- How might people react?

6C Making the headlines

Fame (think of different ways to get famous)

Would you want to be famous?

Idioms with in and out

On page 72 of your SB you will find a list with idioms.

Which of those phrases go with in and which go with out? Explain their meaning (you can use a dictionary for this)

Then do exercise 5. 

What is the function of a headline?

Headlines 

Headlines are used to get the reader's attention. Nowadays the more attention something gets, there are usually more clicks that follow which means more money. Hence we get a lot of clickbait articles.

Write your own short clickbait article (100-150 words). Make sure that you include a very suitable clickbait headline. 

6D - Truth or Lies?

Read Seeing is believing

Do exercise 2, 4 and 5. 

Emphasis and inversion

Do exercise 6 and 7 on page 75.