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UNIT 7

THE MEDIA

LESSON 56

READING 10

LEARNING STANDARD

READING 3.1.5

Understand the main points in extended texts on a wide range of familiar topics and some unfamiliar topics 

READING 3.1.2

Understand specific details and information in extended texts on a wide range of familiar topics and some unfamiliar topics 

Poll

Which of these materials do you read the most?

• books and comics

• emails and text messages

• magazines and newspapers

• poems and prose

• articles and websites

Did you know?

• Mass media refers to the newspapers, television, radio and so on that communicate news and information to a large number of people

• How long have the following inventions affected mass media?

• The Printing Press (1439)

• The Radio (1910)

• The Internet (1990)

Open Ended

1. Based on the video shown, what should we save the world from?

2. How can we save the world?

3. Do you agree?

Poll

Do you follow the news? Why or Why not?

• It is good to be informed.

• News is sensationalised.

• A story might concern me personally.

• It makes me angry.

• It is depressing

Poll

Which of these media do you think provides the best news coverage?

• newspapers

• radio

• television

• the Internet

Exercise 4

Read the article again and choose the best answer A, B, C or D.

Multiple Choice

1. Which of the following makes newspapers impractical?

• A. They are no longer free online.

• B. They don’t have enough readers.

• C. They have been pirated too much.

• D. They cannot report news quickly enough.

Multiple Choice

2. According to the article, it is true that......

• A . some well-known papers can only be read online.

• B. digital papers cost less to produce than print papers.

• C. there is less reading material in a digital paper.

• D. readers can write their own articles for online papers.

Multiple Choice

3. What does ‘Here’ in paragraph 4 refer to?

• A. the comparison between print books and e-books

• B. the comparison between tablets and e-readers

• C. the advantages of reading e-books

• D. the differences between books and newspapers

Multiple Choice

4. What does the writer suggest about print books?

• A. No one steals them.

• B. E-books will never replace them.

• C. They have a lot of positive points.

• D. They have better prices than e-books

Multiple Choice

5. What is the final paragraph about?

• A. books read by people with gadgets

• B. suggestions about what to read

• C. all the drawbacks of reading devices

• D. the joy of reading a traditional book

Multiple Choice

6. What does the writer believe will happen in the future?

• A. People who use gadgets will read print books.

• B. Print books are more likely to survive than print

  newspapers.

• C. Kindle and iPad will become easier to use for reading.

• D. More people will read while on holiday

EXERCISE 5

Find words in the article which mean the same as these definitions. The paragraph number is provided in brackets.

Open Ended

1. belonging to the present time (1)

Open Ended

2. suitable for a particular purpose (2)

Open Ended

3. reasonably priced (3)

Open Ended

4. involving the user to exchange information (3)

Open Ended

5. real, able to be seen, touched, etc (5)

Open Ended

6. easy to use or understand (5)

EXERCISE 6

What is your opinion?

Open Ended

Look at the old newspaper headline in the photo. What might have happened or is about to happen?