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Unit 6 The Media
Lesson 2 Questions about Media
Warming-up
Example:
The Internet has changed communication greatly.
Talk about the influence of the Internet on your life and on the media.
Warming-up
Possible answers:
On the Internet, my mother buys commodities. She says it saves her a lot of time and money.
I get to know some online friends, but my mother says this occupies too much of my time for studying.
Warming-up
In the past, my whole family would sit in front of the TV watching Xinwen Lianbo; now we no longer do that, but read on our separate mobile phones for what interests us. I kind of miss that old time.
Listening
Question
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Listen to the programme and write down the questions the presenter collected for the professor in the table.
Do you think the Internet has affected traditional media, news, for example?
How has it changed the way we use language?
Do you think we will still read newspaper in the future?
Read the following statements.
Listening
Group the professor’s answers for each question in the column. Then listen to the programme and check.
Question Professor Jessop’s answer
Question 1: Do you think the Internet has affected
traditional media, news, for example?
Question 2: How has it changed the way we use language?
Question 3: Do you think we will still read newspaper in
the future?
b g h j
c d e k
a f i
Listening
Learn the Skill Builder.
Listening
( ) a Fewer people and companies chose to advertise in the newspapers.
( ) b Make a recording of a high-definition video of an event, and
upload it to the Internet by smartphones.
( ) c The Internet has introduced a lot of new words to our language.
( ) d The word “microblogging” did not exist before the Internet.
Listen to the programme again. Decide whether Professor Jessop’s answers are facts (F) or opinions (O) before each statement.
F
F
F
F
Listening
( ) e E