Everyone's a Journalist

Everyone's a Journalist

In this lesson you will read an article about two pieces of news that happened some years ago, then you'll answer questions about this article and the language in it.

Everyone's a journalist

You will read an article on the following page called "Everyone's a journalist". Here are the questions for you to think about while you are reading, but you have to answer them on the pages following the reading.

1 What’s the connection between social media and the photos?

2 Which news stories not shown in the photos are mentioned in the article?

3 What is the danger of relying on social media to get news

Use this link to open the text on a different tab https://drive.google.com/file/d/175v1dEYfP6nMgBqaQZHM_H_JCk8CoFgC/view?usp=sharing

Open Ended

1 What’s the connection between social media and

the photos?

*You can go back to the article if you want to.

Open Ended

2 Which news stories not shown in the photos are

mentioned in the article?

*You can go back to the article if you want to.

Open Ended

3 What is the danger of relying on social media to get news?

*You can go back to the article if you want to.

Read again

Read the article again, and after you have read it you will have to answer to some questions about it. Have a look at them so you know what to pay attention to:

1 How many people died in the Hudson River plane crash?

2 How did people spread images and videos of Chelyabinsk?

3 What did NASA tell people about on Twitter?

4 How did Carel Pedre use social media?

5 What was the problem with some of the photos of Hurricane Sandy?

Multiple Choice

1 How many people died in the Hudson River plane crash?

• No one

• 155 passengers

• the pilots and crew

Multiple Choice

2 How did people spread images and videos of Chelyabinsk?

• By email

• By print

• By social media sites

Multiple Choice

3 What did NASA tell people about on Twitter?

• About the meteor

• About the discovery of ice on Mars

• About the landing on Mars

Multiple Choice

4 How did Carel Pedre use social media?

• to advertise his radio programme

• to contact his family

• to help people find family members after the earthquake.

Multiple Choice

5 What was the problem with some of the photos of Hurricane Sandy?

• They were fakes.

• They were too traumatic to share on social media

• They were illegal

Multiple Choice

Match this defition to words from the article.

"a place where something happens"

• disaster

• scene

• eyewitness

• dramatic

• discovered

Multiple Choice

Match this defition to words from the article.

"full of action and excitement"

• fakes

• hoaxes

• disaster

• dramatic

• discovered

Multiple Choice

Match this defition to words from the article.

"found (for the first time)"

• fakes

• hoaxes

• disaster

• dramatic

• discovered

Multiple Choice

Match this defition to words from the article.

"a very bad situation in which people die or are hurt"

• eyewitness

• hoaxes

• disaster

• dramatic

• discovered

Multiple Choice

Match this defition to words from the article.

"a person who sees an event happen"

• eyewitness

• hoaxes

• disaster

• dramatic

• discovered

Multiple Choice

Match this defition to words from the article.

"jokes or tricks"

• eyewitness

• hoaxes

• disaster

• dramatic

• fakes

Multiple Choice

Match this defition to words from the article.

"things that look real but aren't"

• eyewitness

• hoaxes

• disaster

• dramatic

• fakes