Monthly Archives July 2015

О GETTING STARTED

In this section you are going to think about the positive and negative influences of the media. You will also take notes on statistical information about television ownership.

READING AND THINKING ABOUT THE TOPIC

1 Read the following passage.

The media has become one of society’s most impor...

APPLYING WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED

1 Work as a class. Choose a day when you will all buy the same edition of the same newspaper. Read the paper before you go to class.

In small groups, analyze the following sections of the newspaper. Decide how good you think each section is...

GUESSING VOCABULARY FROM CONTEXT

1 The following items contain important vocabulary from Part One of the lecture. Work with a partner. Using the context and your knowledge of related words, lake turns trying to guess the meanings of the words in bold.

1 whether or not the story is accurate

2 The public would ...

When you brainstoi-m about a topic, you allow yourself to think about it freely and can generate unexpected ideas and reactions. A good way to brainstorm is to use a word map that indicates your ideas about different aspects of the topic.

1 Work with a partner. Look at the word map below...

GUESSING VOCABULARY FROM CONTEXT

The following items contain important vocabulary from Part One of the lecture.

Work with a partner. Using the context and your knowledge of related words, take turns trying to guess the meanings of the words in bold.

1 So many new stories appear every day that it’s imp...