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Greetings and topic introduction.

How often do you usually watch TV or listen to the radio?

 When do you usually do these things? Which are your favourite and least favourite channels?

 News

People primarily read the newspapers for… news! News can be a breaking story, a long running story?

It is important it is read today. We rarely pick up yesterday’s newspaper to read about current news.

Think about an article you have read recently. Why was it in the news? Was it a breaking or a long running story? How important and significant was it?

Understanding news articles

News stories unswer the following questions:

What happened?

When did it happen?

Who was involved?

Where did it happen?

Why/how did it happen?

These questions are answered briefly in the first and in the second paragraphs of the article.

Do you watch the news on TV?

Where do you get your news?

Discuss. Look at the list of sections from a newspaper.

1. Do newspapers in Russia have all these sections?
2. Do they include other information?
3. What other sections might a newspaper include?

Look at the types of programmes below. Do you usually find them on TV or on radio or on both?

Students answer the teachers questions and identify the types of programme and where it is found.

documentaries

sports coverage

crime mysteries

travel news

“reality” shows

cartoons

national news

game shows and puzzles

phone-ins

local news

soap operas

sit coms

adverts

.  Students answer the teachers questions

Topic on the blackboard.

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What’s in the news for the week?

a)

b) Watching news “Pig Flu” pandemic”

Students present the Internet articles on the most important events.

Discuss the articles and answer the other students’ questions.

Discussion of the film.

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Work in small groups. You are in charge of a new programme on a local TV station and it is tour job to select the three leading stories for the programme. To night you have the following seven news items to choose from. Discuss each one and choose the best three.

Students work in small groups. They make a presentation of the chosen items for a TV programme.

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Let us check the home task. You have read the newspaper article “Hot on the Trail of Angelina Jolie”.

a)Match the words from the article to the definitions:

b) Look at the highlighted words and expression in the text and complete the sentences:

c)Read the article and choose the best answer for the question

d)Discuss the questions:

1 Would you describe  Paparazzi as “scum”?

2 Do you think it’s ethical to invade a celebrity’s privacy?

Answering the teacher’s questions.

1. Why do you think people like to read about famous people in magazines and newspapers?
2. What motivates someone to work as a “paparazzi”?
3. What skills do you need?
4. Is it always an exciting job?

Student give their answers:

1 Many people don’t hunt to kill. They just do it for the thrill of a chase.

2 Wolves hunt in groups or as a pack.

3 We hit the jackpot when we won the lottery and made a million dollars.

4 She was furious when she saw the stories of her private life splashed across the front page of a tabloid newspaper.

5 The hunters were closing the net on their prey but the lion still managed to escape.

6 We have the escaped prisoner cornered in the building. We need more police to help capture him.

1-C

2- A

3-A

4-C

5-B

6-D

7-C

8-B

Students discuss the questions.

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Reading and vocabulary.

News stories.

1. Read the headlines and 2 or 3 o them and try to guess what the article is about.
2.  Can you guess which headlines these words relate to?

3. Read the articles and match them to the headlines quickly.
4. Work in pairs

5. Discuss in groups

1. Which of the stories have happy endings for the people concerned?
2. Which have unhappy endings?
3. Which story in the most romantic, the funniest and the most unbelievable ?

Read the headlines

Work with the vocabulary:

air traffic controller

baseball  bat

hijack

marriage register

slippers

wallpaper

giant cheque

ink

pay off debts

soft toys

Read the articles

Guess the meaning of the words from

the context.

Tried to rob a bus?

Threaten to commit suicide?

Caused panic in Chicago airport?

Was raising money for charity?

Was fined 130 euro by a judge?

Rescued his ex-wife from a burning house?

Was presented with a giant cheque?

Thought there was a hijacker on board the plane?

Caused 165,000 accidents last year?

Caused 700 injuries every year?

Task sheets with headlines and vocabulary

Texts with articles

Ex.4, p.63

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Language focus

The Passive

Read the sentences about the news stories and underline the main verb in each.

( which verb is active or passive?)

Forming the passive

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Ex. 1, p.63

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Summing up You worked well. I give you the following marks:

Hometask: Go to the International Herald Tribune Web site at www.iht.com and find a news story that interests you. Complete the following grid.

Do the crossword.

Crossword