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• Unit 1 The media

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Unit 1 The media

• Activity 1 The Media
• Activity 2 Newspapers
• Activity 3 Listening to a Conversation
• Activity 4 Finding Your Way around a Newspaper
• Activity 5 News in Conversation(Listening)
• Activity 6 Reading More Newspaper Articles
• ( Supplementary materials)

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Activity 1

• Task 1 Mass Media
• Task 2 Examples of Mass Media
• Task 3 Spreading News

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Task 1 Mass Media

• What does mass media mean to you?
• Does it equal to multimedia?
• Mass a large number
• Media You can refer to television, radio,
  newspapers and magazines as the media.
• The mass media are television, radio, and
  newspaper. E.g. The mass media now play an
  increasing role in shaping our opinions.

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Task 2 Examples of Mass Media

• TV and radio programmes
• Films
• Ads
• the Internet
• News agencies are responsible for spreading
  information to newspapers so news agencies can
  also be classed as an example of media.

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Task 3 Spreading News

• Press all published newspapers and magazines.
• Newspaper the oldest and most basic type of mass
  media.
• Newspapers magazines
• (Generally speaking, zero article is used in
  front of the names of magazines)

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Activity 2 Newspapers

• Task 1 A News Item
• Task 2 Identifying Personal Details
• Task 3 Distinguishing Fact from Conjecture
• Task 4 Expressing Fact and Conjecture
• Task 5 Avoiding Repetition
• Task 6 Examining Newspaper Headlines
• Task 7 Other Aspects of the Article

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Task 1. A News Item

• Text 1 Good-bye Fergie (P.13)
• 1. Skim Text 1 and do the choices on P.12
• 2. Who are the main characters in Text 1?
• 3. This part is mainly about_______.
• 4. How do you understand the title of this
  article?

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Task 2 Identifying Personal Details (P.14)

• Now lets go to the detailed info of Text 1.
• Ask at least one question about the contents of
  Text 1 by using the W5H1 ( the basic 6 factors of
  news-reporting ).
• There is one more name Forgie(in the title)

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Task 3. Distinguishing Fact from Conjecture(P.15)

• Conjecture is the formation of ideas or opinions
  from incomplete or doubtful information.
• Sensational 1. Something that is is so
  remarkable that it causes great excitement and
  interest. 2. You can describe sth. as when you
  think that it is extremely good.
• Scandalous immoral and shocking

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Task 4Expressing Fact and Conjecture(P.16)

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Task5 Avoiding Repetition (P.18)

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Task6 Examining Newspaper Headlines(P.19)

• Headline ?Features of
  Headlines?
• 1. A is the title of a newspaper story, printed
  in large letters at the top of the story. E.g.
  The headlines that day were full of news of the
  kidnapping.
• 2. The headlines are also the main points of the
  news which are read on radio or TV. E.g. And now
  for the main headlines again.

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Task7 Other Aspects of the Article (P.20)

1. The author/writer of the article.
2. Related articles ( comments, certain features )
3. Three types of articles (news) reports,
   features, and leaders.

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Activity 3 (P.22)Listening to a Conversation

• Task 1 Identifying Names of Publications
• Task 2 Listen for Details
• Task 3 Extracting Information
• Task 4 Listen for Specific Information

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Activity 4 Finding Your Way around a Newspaper

• Task 1 Components of Newspaper
• Task 2 Which section?
• Task 3 Selecting Headlines
• Task 4 Identifying Features of Headlines

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Task 1 Components of Newspaper(P.26)

• 1.caption the words printed underneath a picture
  or cartoon which explain what it is about.
• 2. An announcement
• 3. An ad.
• 4. A cartoon.
• 5. A contents list
• 6. A book review.
• 7. An editorial
• 8. A headline.
• 9. Whats on
• 10. A crossword

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Task 2 Which section?(P.29)

• Indicate the newspaper section
• 1. Milosevic says 'sorry' in prison interview
• 2. Pickpockets menace tourists in Paris
• 3. Coke, Nike unaffected by spreading US gloom
• 4. Five years in jail for the Mormon with five
  wives
• 5. Moscow to get Diana statue by flamboyant
  sculptor.
• 6. Kangaroo tail 'bribe' has poll rival hopping
• 7. Mexican president marries spokesman
• 8. Short stature linked to shorter life study
• 9. Top Wimbledon seed to Sampras
• 10. Drugs give gamblers relief from temptations

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Task 3 Selecting Headlines(P.30)

• You seldom need to read a news item intensively.
• Find out what has happened, what interests us.
• Headlines will guide us.
• Identify the NEW info / KNOWN info

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Task 4 Identifying Features of Headlines(P.32)

• ( Source Slides 35-38)

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Activity 6 Reading More Newspaper Articles

• 1. 89-year-old sails across Atlantic twice
• 2. Hillary's brother caught in the act by jealous
  fiancé

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89-year-old sails across Atlantic twice

• An 89-year-old grandmother has fulfilled a
  lifetime ambition by finishing an 8,000-mile
  round trip across the Atlantic.
• Helen Tew arrived back in Beaulieu River
  Sailing Club, Hants, in a 26ft boat designed by
  her late husband 60 years' ago.
• Mrs Tew said that she had been inspired to
  make the crossing ever since her father refused
  to let her join him on a similar trip in 1934.

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Hillary's brother caught in the act by jealous
fianceBy Ben Fenton in Washington(Filed
22/08/2001)
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Hillary's brother caught in the act by jealous
fiancéBy Ben Fenton in Washington(Filed
22/08/2001)

• HILLARY CLINTON's brother Tony Rodham has been
  beaten up by a jealous man who allegedly caught
  him making love to the man's fiancée, police said
  yesterday.
• The alleged incident happened while Mr Rodham was
  staying at his family's holiday home at Lake
  Winola, near Scranton, Pennsylvania, last
  weekend.
• He was allegedly engaged in sexual intercourse
  with 36-year-old Kelly Quick at about 5am on
  Sunday when her fiancé, Daniel Coyne, climbed
  over the railings of the cottage's porch and
  spotted them through a window.

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• According to court documents, Mr Coyne walked
  into the building and confronted the couple,
  kicking Mr Rodham and shouting at him. The
  commotion awoke Hugh Rodham, the former First
  Lady's other brother, who arrived and ordered Mr
  Coyne to leave the house.
• It is alleged that the 45-year-old shop steward
  at a local timber mill returned shortly
  afterwards and attacked Tony Rodham again. He
  later surrendered to police and was charged with
  burglary and assault.

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• Both of Mrs Clinton's brothers have caused
  repeated embarrassment to their sister through
  their efforts to exploit their relationship with
  her. Tony Rodham, who is 47, was in the news
  recently after Congress began an investigation
  into his efforts to obtain pardons for friends
  from Bill Clinton in the final days of his
  presidency.
• He has worked in the past as an insurance
  salesman, prison guard, repossession enforcer and
  private investigator. Mr Rodham, who is living in
  Washington, lists his present occupation as a
  "consultant". He was married to Nicole Boxer,
  daughter of Senator Barbara Boxer of California,
  but the marriage ended in divorce last year.

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Affairs(events and info)(P.6)

• Affair1. an event or a situation when you are
  talking about it very generally. E.g. The wedding
  was a quiet affair An enquiry will be connected
  into the whole affair. 2. affairs refer to all
  the important facts or activities that are
  connected with a particular subject. E.g. a
  specialist in Eastern European affairs
• current affairs(events and info that are related
  to our present lives)political and social events
  which are discussed in newspapers and on
  television and radio programmes. E.g. the BBCs
  current affairs programmes.
  

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Current(P.6)

• Something that is current is happening, being
  done or being used at the present time(NOW, THESE
  DAYS).e.g. Our current methods of production are
  too expensive The conversation shifted onto what
  is current in art and music.
  

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Some major news agencies in the world(grid)
Title Acronym Country Translation
Xinhua News Agency Xinhua China ???
Reuter(s) News Agency Reuter B. ???
Associated Press AP USA ???
United Press International UPI USA ?????
Agence Francaise de Presse AFP F. ???
Deutsche Presse Agentur DPA G. ???
Agencia Efe, S.A. EFE SP. ???
Telegrafnoie Agentstvo Soveetskovo Soiuza TASS USSR ???
Kyodo News Agency Kyodo Jap. ???
Middle East News Agency MENA Egypt ???
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Major News Agencies in the World

• Xinhua News Agency XinhuaChina (???)
• Reuter(s) News Agency Reuter B.(???)
• Associated Press AP USA(???)
• United Press International UPIUSA(?????)
• Agence France-Press APF---F. (???)
• Deutsche Presse Agentur DPA G. (???)
• Ansa News Agency --- ANSA IT. (???)
• Agencia Efe, S.A. --- EFESP. (???)
• TASS USSR-- (???)
• Kyodo News Agency KYODO JAP. (???)
• Middle East News Agency MENA Egypt(???)

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Guidelines for skimming

• 1. Run the eyes over the text rapidly, read only
  the familiar words and phrases and ignore the
  unfamiliar ones.
• 2. Try to recognize the key words and phrases.
• 3. Read only the first and the last sentence of
  each paragraph, for, as a rule, the gist of a
  paragraph is found there. But , of course, there
  are always exceptions.
• 4. Read the first paragraph and the last
  paragraph of a text for the same reason as 3.

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The Features of Newspaper Headlines(I)

• 1. Abbreviations and acronyms are widely used.
• E.g.1. UFO sighted
• (UFO unidentified flying object)
• E.g. 2. PM to see MP
• over foot and mouth
• (PM Prime Minister,
• MP Member of Parliament)
• EU, WTO, WHO, NATO, UNESCO?

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The Features of Newspaper Headlines(II)

• 2. Omission of some words.
• 1) articles
• Boy, 7, Killed by Ejection From Cockpit of Navy
  Jet
• ( A boy, 7, killed by Ejection from the Cockpit
  of a navy jet)
• 2) linking verbs
• (The ) Bankers (keep/are) silent
• as (the) dollar falls
• 3) all forms of to be
• Pompeii reported seriously damaged
• Pompeii is reported to have been seriously
  damaged

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The Features of Newspaper Headlines(III)

• 4) pron.
• Anny and baby are well
• (Anny and her baby are well)
• 5) prep.
• Police killers jail death not unexpected
• ( the death in the jail of the man who killed a
  policeman)
• Sharp Refugee Rise Worries HK
• (sharp rise in arrivals of refugees)

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The Features of Newspaper Headlines(IV)

• 3. Tenses often used in newspaper headlines
• 1) simple present to refer to a past event
• 2) to do to indicate the future
• 3) simple past to indicate the past event

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1) simple present to refer to a past event

• Heart pioneer Barnard dies CHRISTIAAN
  BARNARD, the South African
• surgeon who carried out the world's
  first heart
• transplant, died yesterday at the
  age of 78.
• (Http//www.telegraph.co.uk Monday 3 September
  2001)
• More examples
• 1?Non-aligned body makes new effects
• 2?Judge issues KKK restraint
• 3?Mount St. Helens erupts
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2) to do to indicate the future

• Australia to ship out refugeesBy Barbia Dutter
  in Christmas IslandTHE indigo waters off
  Christmas Island were churned up by military
  activity yesterday as naval vessels and
  helicopters made urgent preparations to transfer
  438 stranded asylum seekers into a troop ship and
  out of Australian territory.
• More examples
• 1?Australia to import diesels from China(China
  Daily)
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• 2?Florida Freeze To Increase Area Produce Prices
• (The Washington Post)
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Heart pioneer Barnard dies

• By Tim Butcher in Durban(Filed 03/09/2001)
  CHRISTIAAN BARNARD, the South African surgeon
  who carried out the world's first heart
  transplant, died yesterday at the age of 78.
• Dr Barnard was found dead at a hotel in Cyprus
  where he was on holiday. A post mortem
  examination was being carried out but early
  indications were that he died of heart failure.
• Dr Barnard successfully transplanted the heart of
  a car crash victim into 53-year-old Louis
  Washkansky at Cape Town's Groote Schuur hospital
  on Dec 3, 1967.
• "His death is a great loss to the country after
  all the contributions he made," said Nelson
  Mandela. "He was very vocal against apartheid."
• Although best known as a pioneering surgeon, Dr
  Barnard was a notorious womaniser with three
  broken marriages and numerous affairs with stars
  such as Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida.

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