WorksheetsQUIZ LANGUAGE AND MEDIA
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
How many features are there in the textbook that makes the news worthy?
10
11
12
13
Which main feature(s) does this news title have?
“Four dead after Trump supporters ransack Congress”
Negativity
Superlativeness
Eliteness
Negativity & Eliteness
…….. of a story is its compatibility with preconceptions about the social group or nation from which the news actors come.
(a)
“Millions more in England in toughest Tier 4 as Covid cases rise at “dangerous rate”
Which remarkable feature makes this news worth watching?
Consonance
Superlativeness
Attribution
Eliteness
Relevance needs to be the same as proximity. True or False?
True
False
…………………… signifies that the more clear-cut the story is, the more it is favoured
(a)
What key news questions does the title give the answer to?
“Joe Biden's first speech as US president-elect 🇺🇸 US Election” - @BBC News (Nov 8th, 2020)
Who is involved? When did it happen?
Who is involved? Why did it happen?
Who is involved? What has happened? Where has happened?
Who is involved? Where has happened? Why did it happen?
It is a statement about TV news narrative structure. Is it TRUE or FALSE?
“Most stories on a news bulletin have a complicated structure”
FALSE
TRUE
Is it acceptable when editors use dialects (a form of language that people speak in a particular part of a country, containing some different words and grammar) in TV news?
Yes
No
What are characteristics of the news speaker’s pronunciation of words in the reading out of written language?
Clear, intelligible and standard
Clear, obvious and understandable
Clear, understandable and standard
In terms of Information density, no sentence should be ______________.
longer than 20 words
complex sentence
informal language
Which feature of language in TV news is presented in this title?
“UK free school meal supplier apologises for quantity of food parcels”
Active voice
Appositional noun phrase
Active voice & Appositional noun phrases
“____________ is the general absence of affective language that expresses the speaker’s feelings (anger, despair, grief etc.)”
Absence of personal viewpoints and opinions.
Absence of colloquial
Reduced emotionality
Which feature does the underlined part indicate in terms of structure of TV news?
“Kim Jong Un, the newly named “supreme commander” of North Korea, attends a service for his father, in the capital, Pyongyang”.
(a)
Why are up-to-date verb tenses highly recommended?
To reduce structural complexity
To inform the listeners as an event is happening
To reduce subjectivity
To avoid unfamiliar words
