Fluency practice: the media

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

First Practise Vocabulary

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In pairs, make conversation about your

answers to these questions:

• What do you think the main purpose of television news is? 

    To inform, entertain or influence?  Explain.

• Do you think people generally take the news at face value? 
    Explain.

• What are some of the differences between television news            and the news in the newspapers?

In pairs, make conversation about your

answers to these questions:

• What makes a good news story, in your opinion. For example,

   celebrities and their cars, a general election, the discovery of a

   cure for a bad disease etc

• Have you ever been at the location of a big news story? Were       the television reports true? If not, what does this make you            think about the reliability of television news

 Think of three news stories from your lifetime. One from the

current month, one from this year and one from any period.

• What news story have you chosen?

• When did it happen?

• What happened?

• Where were you when you heard the news?

• How did you find out?

 Think of three news stories from your lifetime. One from the

current month, one from this year and one from any period.

REPORT

TV, Radio, Newspapers, Internet.

Discuss and write lists for each media, in each case identifying the advantages and disadvantages of each. 

TV, Radio, Newspapers, Internet.

Class Discussion

You are a television news editor. All these events have happened today. Your job is to decide on the order to report them in on the national TV news at 6:00. There won’t be time

for everything, you will only be able to broadcast six things. Decide what, and say why:

Ÿ A local boy has bought a new bike from the shop (red with 18 gears)

Ÿ The President of your country has been involved in a road accident. He is hurt but his life is not in danger

Ÿ An old woman from a small village on the sea has won $10,000,000 on the national lottery

Ÿ A cat has scratched its owner’s sofa

Ÿ A company from your country has won a multi-million pound contract to supply car parts to Ferrari

Ÿ There is a train workers’ strike which has resulted in there being no train services all day

Ÿ Weathermen predict that severe weather will hit the capital tomorrow

Ÿ The national economy may go into recession if the government does not solve the unemployment problem 

Ÿ A group of schoolchildren have painted pictures of the school dog

Ÿ Your country has won the World Team Darts Championship

Ÿ The national health service advises people not to eat cheese because of a food scare. A bacteria can be found in certain cheese which should be avoided until the problem can be solved 

Ÿ A local film maker has been nominated for an Oscar

Vocabulary once more

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