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新北师大版高中英语选择性必修二Unit6 The Media
Lesson2 Questions about Media
The Internet has grown rapidly these years.
Look at the following pictures and try to draw a conclusion for each picture.
The Internet has made a great impact on our life.
The Internet has made a great impact on the media.
The Internet has made a great impact on the media.
Example: The Internet has changed communication greatly.
Talk about the influence of the Internet on your life and on the media.
Activate and Share
1. Listen to the programme and write down the questions the presenter collected for the professor in the left column of the table.
Listen for Understanding
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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 newspapers in the future?
Listen for Understanding
2. Read the following statements. Group the professor’s answers for each question in the right column in Activity 2. Then listen to the programme and check.
Listen for Understanding
( ) a Fewer people and companies chose to advertise in the newspaper.
( ) 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.
( ) e Every article has reader’s comments below it and anyone can express what they think.
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( ) f In my opinion, newspaper businesses will find it much harder to survive in the future.
( ) g Big media corporations are being cut out.
( ) h Anyone can decide what is news.
( ) i Most countries have seen a drop in n