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Types of theMedia

Television

&Radio

The Press

The MobilePhones

Chat showDocumentaryGame show

Reality showSoap opera

Sitcom

NewspaperTabloid

Quality paperPopular

newspaperLocal

newspaper

Magazine

Socialmedia

Web pageBlog

Chat room

Text message updatesText voting

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6th Year

Unit 3: The Media

Popular newspapers gossip, no serious news.

Quality Newspapers (broad sheets) more pages,seriousarticles about business,politics, science.

Local newspapers report a lotof localnews.

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Name of the programme Type When is it on? Age group (Who is it mostly watched by?) Characteristics

- I listen to the radio every morning while Im getting ready for school/work. And you?- I dont. I usually watch the news on TV while Im having breakfast.

Go to You Tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5pyzJyU10Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5pyzJyU10Qhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5pyzJyU10Qhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5pyzJyU10Q

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What videos do British teens

usually watch?

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local B

quality C

popular

1)The Sun2)The Mirror3)The Daily Telegraph4)The Times5)The Independent6)The Guardian7)Oxford Times

Give the full names of the television

services:

BBC

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ITV

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A commercial B not commercial

1) The BBC

2) ITV

3) Channel 4

4) Channel 5

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The most favourite tv programmes ofBritish teenagers:

Neighbours BBC News

The Simpsons Doctors

Sports tv East Enders

Friends MTV

Vets Top of the Pops

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What do you think:

Is cable TV a terrestrial type of

TV?

Yes No

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Each student answers a question and asks the next student in line the next question,

making a chain of questions and answers. Use the information from the answers in the

previous exercise (while watching activity sheet) and do the quiz.

1) What popular British newspapers can you name?

2) What quality British newspapers can you remember?

3) What is the full name of BBC?

4) What programmes do British teens enjoy watching?

5) Have you ever watched any of those programmes?6) What kind of videos do British teens usually watch?

7) What types of media are used for broadcasting news?

8) How much TV do British people watch per day?

9) BBC is a terrestrial type of television.

What other type of television was mentioned in the video?

Read the list of things we can watch on broadcast television. Mark them as follows:

If you think there are too many of these on television in your country.

If you think there about the right amount of these.

If you think there should be more of these.

If you dont have these in your country at all.

______ a- advertisements that use attractive people to sell products like cars or perfumes

______ b- government advertisement campaigns against things like drink-driving

______ c- programmes with live sports coverage

______ d- children s programmes which include violence

______ e- long complicated murder mysteries or thrillers

______ f- interviews with politicians

______ g- chat shows

______ h- game shows

______ i- soap operas

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THE MEDIA- Part 2

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PRACTICE_________________________________________________

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Hoaxes________________________________________

One Monday morning many years ago the headline on the left appearedin the New York Times, one of the citys most famous newspapers. Thestory described a disaster at the Central Park Zoo: escaped wild animalswere roaming the streets of the city and hunting humans for food. Thereporter said that 49 people were already dead and that the police were

expecting the number to increase during the night. At least twelve of theanimals were still free. In an announcement to the city, the mayor saidthat the animals were dangerous and he told the people that herecommended them to stay at home until all the animals were capturedand taken back to the zoo.

The people, of course, panicked. Everyone stayed at home behind lockeddoors and life of the city stopped. Other newspapers read the story andprinted it, but no one read the final paragraph. In this paragraph thewriter told his readers that not one word of his story was true. He saidthat it was all a hoax and that he was printing it because he wanted the

city to improve the safety of the zoo.But was this the truth? Did he really write the story because he feared for safety of the New Yorkers? Or did he

just want to sell more newspapers?

1- Look at the picture and the headline. Whatdo you think the story is about?

2- Read the story and check your answers. Isa hoax a real story or not?

3- Correct these sentences about the story.They are all false.

a- The wild animals were not dangerous topeople.

b- The police didnt expect any more peopleto die.

c- The police wanted to kill the escapedanimals.

d- The story didnt cause a problem for thecity.

e- The story was completely true.4- Match these words with their meanings.

a- Increase __ to catchb- capture __ to grow, become morec- mayor __ to walk around

__ political leader of a city

Work it out: reported speech

5- A) Who said these phrases in the story?

Forty-nine people are already dead

I recommend you to stay at home until the

animals are captured.

Not one word of my story is true.

B) When we report speech, some wordschange.Look at the sentences in exercise 5 A) to completethe table.

C) What happens to the present tense verbsin these sentences when they are reported?

6- Rewrite these sentences in reported

speech.

1-The animals are dangerous.The mayor said that____________________________________2-Its all hoax.The writer told us that_________________________________3- Were doing everything we can.The police said that they________________________________4-Weve got most of themThe police said that____________________________________

actualwords

reported words

verbs is

arewant

other youmy

DISASTER! Wild animals

in New York City!

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7- A) Look at the reported statements in thestory. Which two verbs introduce them?Complete the rules:

To introduce reported statements we use___________ + that+ sentence

or___________ + noun/pronoun + that+ sentence

B) Complete the paragraphs with: told or said

Yesterday my little brother Alec came in and(1)____________ us that there was a ghost in theold house down the road. Of course, we (2)___________ that we didnt believe him and we(3) _____________ him not to be silly, but he (4)___________ that it was true. He (5)

___________ us that he and his friend playedthere every day after school, and he (6)____________ that he could record the noises inhis MP3 player. He went back to the house thenext day and took his MP3 player. They came backlater and (7) _____________ that there wasdefinitely a ghost on the tape. We listened and

mum started laughing. She (8) ______________my brother that the ghost was just a hare! Shehad seen it the day before.

C) What are the actual words in the story?Example:Alec: Theres a ghost in the old house

8) What do you think of hoaxes?

1- Is it right for newspapers, TV, radio or theInternet to play tricks on people?

2- Have you ever played a trick on anyone? What?

Editing.9- A) Read the following story about a hoax.What was the hoax?

The BBC tried to.

1- to sell plants to the British people.

2- tell people that spaghetti grew on trees.

One of the best hoxes on British television was

presented in a serious documentary. It was a

serious documentery about farming and it was

presented by one of the most well-respected

presenters on the BBC. The presenter said that

spaghetti has grown on trees in Switzeland and

italy. (There is a tradition in Britain to play tricks

on your friends on the 1stof April. This was an

April Fools Day trick). hundreds of people believed

the programme and wrote to the BBC- they

wanted to buy spaghetti plants!

B) The story is badly written. Find thecorrect

1- two mistakes with capital letters.2- Two spelling mistakes3- One mistake in reported speech

C) Some words are repeated too much. Findthe repetitions, cross them out, and replacethem with these words:

Introduced- programme- factual- He

D) These things are all mentioned in the text.Write the order they appear (1-4) in the firstlines.

the April Fools Day tradition ___ ___introduction to the hoax ___ ___the story of the hoax ___ ___the result ___ ___

Can you think of a better order for thisinformation? Write it in the second lines

Writing

10) Your school magazine wants to print apage of tricks and hoaxes. Make notes aboutthe best hoax or trick you have read or heard

about.

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PRACTICE________________________________________________