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1. English through the news
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Where do you get your news
from?
• Newspapers ?
• TV ?
• Radio ?
• Social Networks?
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What's your favourite section?
• Current affairs, international, politics (hard stuff)
• Human (or pet!) interest stories (soft stuff)
• Finance
• Sport
• TV & Showbiz
• Lifestyle (fashion, home, health)
• Fun (x-words, puzzles, horoscopes)
• Travel
• Editorial
• Other
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How often do you read the
news?
• Every day
• Every couple days
• Just at weekends
• Seldom
• Never
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5. British newspapers love “playful”
headlines.
Flapjack whack
rap claptrap
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6. Solution:
School ban on 'dangerous'
triangle oat snacks
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Guess the article
Choose eight key words from interesting article
(Bernhard escapes) and write on board.
• S work in teams of 3-4 to make up story
including these words.
• When S finish T tells them about original article.
• S read out own versions – can be fun and good
introduction to newspapers at more advanced
level
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8. Write a short news report with
these words
Bernhard, witness, loose, photo,
escaped, hunt, detectives, owner,
danger, hunt, hopline, Australia
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9. Did you get what it was about?
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http://www.thelocal.
de/20120620/43253

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Topic-based tasks????
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11. Spot the mistake
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What does this say about men and women?

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What’s she doing?

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online?
What would you never buy on line?
What do you regret buying online?
What do you most like to buy online?
What would you never buy online?
What do you regret buying online?

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Give S story Hic and click
with key words blanked out.
• S guess missing words.
• S read news story to check their ideas
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Guess the missing words!

16. Gossiping Grans
•Use tabloid reports involving bit of scandal. Example The Sun 10.07
Rapper’s Chainsaw Masseur-cre.
•Best, however, if S find own scandal articles. Either distribute tabloid
newspapers in class or have them “research” online/in German gossip
magazines etc. The challenge is to relay info in English – mediation
style!
•Pre-teach useful phraes for gossiping (Have you heard about? Did you
know? And responses “Really?!” I don’t believe it! You don’t say!).
•Once everyone has a story to gossip about S circulate, gossiping to
each other about their “news”.
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17. What’s going on?
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18. Explain “Cry wolf” incident to S.
Roleplay “perpetrator” and “victim” in talk show.
How did you feel about incident?
How do you feel now?
“Audience” discussion: Should youngsters who
play “cry wolf” pranks, like the one above, be
punished?
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Cry wolf

19. What’s going on?
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20. Imagine your own kingdom
US dad takes unclaimed African kingdom so daughter can be princess
•
W
hatw
ould
yourflag
look
like?
•W
hatwould
yourm
otto
be?
•W
hatlaws
w
ould
you
pass?
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How to remember difference
between British newspapers.
• The Independent is read by people who own the newspapers.
• The Financial Times is read by people who own the country;
• The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country;
• The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the
country;
• The Times is read by people who actually do run the country;
• The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the
country. The Morning Star - a communist paper - is read by people
who think the country ought to be run by another country;
• The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it already is.
• And The Sun is read by people who don’t care who runs the
country, as long as the Page Three Girl has big b***s.
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