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Worksheets1552101 Mass Media Midterm 2021
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 20mins
What is the meaning of ‘Mass Media’?
Sending information to many other people.
Sending information in newspapers.
Electronic media with information.
Sending information to certain people.
What are three examples of mass media?
Paintings
Newspapers
Radio
Television
Books
What is the meaning of ‘news’?
The main idea should be in the first sentence.
Information sent to many people.
Electronic media that is as up-to-date as possible.
Information about what is happening now.
Which of the following are 'print media'? Choose 2
Internet
Radio
Magazines
Television
Newspapers
What are the advantages of electronic media?
It goes immediately into people’s houses
All the news is as up-to-date as possible
They are only published once a week or once a year.
They are intended only for a local audience.
They are one of the oldest forms of mass media.
Which is one of the newest examples of mass media?
Radio
Television
Intranet
Internet
In which tense do news stories usually report on something that has happened?
Passive tense
Past tense
Present tense
Future tense
What are the four W’s?
Write
What
Where
Who
Who
Where
Why
Whom
Who
What
Where
hoW
Who
What
When
Where
Why do we include the four W’s in the first sentence of a news story?
So the reader can get a good idea about the story before reading the whole story.
So the news is as up-to-date as possible.
So the reader can read the story.
So the reader has to read the whole story.
What is the meaning of ‘main idea’?
The headline and the story.
The Four W's.
Where the news is happening.
The story in detail.
What is the meaning of ‘details’?
The headline and opening sentence.
Pieces of information in the Four W's.
The main idea, but not the headline.
Pieces of information that are not part of the main idea .
Identify WHO in the following sentence:
Imposter Red killed Yellow in the Admin of The Skeld during the Reactor Meltdown.
Imposter Red
Yellow
Skeld
Admin
Identify did WHAT in the following sentence:
Imposter Red killed Yellow in the Admin of The Skeld during the Reactor Meltdown.
Imposter Red
Reactor Meltdown
Killed Yellow
In the Admin
Identify WHERE in the following sentence:
Imposter Red killed Yellow in the Admin of The Skeld during the Reactor Meltdown.
Killed Yellow
Admin of The Skeld
Imposter
Reactor Meltdown
Identify WHEN in the following sentence:
Imposter Red killed Yellow in the Admin of The Skeld during the Reactor Meltdown.
Killed Yellow
During the Reactor Meltdown
Imposter Red
In the Admin of The Skeld
What is a headline?
The main idea.
The Four W's.
The details of the story.
The title of the news story.
How is a headline different from a sentence? Choose 3
No articles (a, an, the)
No capital letters
No subject
No conjunctions (and, but)
No auxiliary verbs
What is a byline?
Auxiliary verbs.
The name of the author of the story.
The name of the publication.
The abbreviations in the headline.
Why don't some stories have a byline?
The story is unsourced and speculative.
The story is an opinion piece.
The story was written by a group of many people.
The story has been censored.
Identify two famous news agencies.
Associated Press
Consolidated Reporters
Reuters
