Media studies examines different forms of communication like television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the internet. The document provides an overview of a lesson on media studies that asks students to define media studies, list different media areas, and research the history of television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the internet by recording 3 key facts about each. The lesson is aimed at helping students understand and analyze different media concepts.

1. Keanah Osborne
Lesson 1
Title: What is Media Studies?
Key Words
 Media Studies
 Media areas
L/O’s:
By the end of the lesson:
All Must – research, understand key media concepts (main tasks)
Most will – analyse key concepts (extension 1)
Some will- evaluate key concepts (extension 2)
Main Task 1 - Answer the following questions
1.What is media studies? Write a short definition.
A Media study is the different ways of
communicating with large numbers of a vast
variety of different people.
2.Write down between three and five different
‘media areas’.
Examples of different ‘media areas’ are:
television, the radio, the Internet, the newspaper
and magazines.

2. Main Task 2
Research the history of the following media areas and record 3 key
facts in the boxes below (e.g. date invented or first used, key
people/organizations, important advances). The first one has been
done for you…
Key Media Areas
TV
1.First British TV broadcast: 1932
2.First broadcasts made by the British
Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
3.Early Television Broadcasting
technology was developed by
Scottish engineer, John Logie Baird.