EF4UI Unit 8B Reporting verbs - Half.pptx

Media and news

1. English file Upper-Intermediate Unit 8B – Reporting verbs

2. Family words – riddle quiz (5 mins) Family discussion questions – interviewing your partner (10 mins) Reading activity (1) – discussing new vocabulary (10 mins) Reading / speaking activity (1) – Whose brother is he? (5 mins) Speaking and listening activity – Interviewing your partner about a photo (5 mins) Grammar – Possessives different ways – highlighting (5 mins) Grammar – Possessives writing short sentences (5 mins) Grammar – Possessives – recognising the correct form (5 mins) Grammar – Possessives – Who’s or whose? (10 mins) Grammar – Possessives – Speaking practice – Whose is ......? (5 mins) Vocabulary building – family words – completing a family tree (10 mins) Vocabulary building – family words – Interviewing your partner (5 mins) Listening practice (1) – People talking about their families – Noting extra information down. (10 mins) Speaking practice (1) – Asking your partner about their family

3. When did you last meet someone new? Where were you? What sorts of things do you ask someone when you meet them for the first time? Are there any questions or topics you wouldn’t ask about in your country?

4. 1. red grape skins 2. Spain (Almeria), he couldn’t get anyone in France to become involved 3. about €12 4. the summer / drinking on the beach or by a swimming pool

5. 5. an animal with strange stripes 6. he’s an artist and he knows what the two animals look like 7. zebras usually have a black nose and mouth, and this animal didn’t 8. the animal was a donkey

6. 1 2 3 4 5 6

7. paying to work not to wear stealing to give up Negative infinitives = not to do something Negative gerunds = not doing something

8. not to leave trying not remembering to come damaging Negative infinitives = not to do something Negative gerunds = not doing something

9. suggested going accused Simon of copying threatened to call refused to go

10. invited me to have reminded Jack to phone promised to never do recommended trying

11. refused agreed promised reminded advised

12. invited denied admitted regretted suggested accused

13. 1. sport 2. politics 3. celebrity gossip 4. business

14. 1. leaves 2. is predicted 3. is going to marry 4. separate

15. D A F C E H B G

16. commentator reporter editor presenter

17. freelance journalist newsreader paparazzi agony aunt

18. D E B A C

19. sense name

20. addresses date

21. spelling fake

22. images trust

23. Introduction For political or personal gain 1. Because they don’t exist. 2. There is no such newspaper. 3. It isn’t the correct URL for ABC news, just deliberately similar. 4. They were actually of another attack in Russia five years earlier.

24. 5. Because authentic news sites use editors to check the text is accurate. 6. Because the surname is spelled wrong. 7. Because these types of images are often used in order to make a fake story more likely to go viral. 8. Check that the information appears on other, reputable news sites.

25. ggerated leading obable tored itimate liable ustworthy

26. 1. live Twitter feeds 2. Facebook 3. the Boston newsletter 4. the telegraph line 5. radio and television 6. cable TV

27. 1. In Washington, DC; 30,000 2. He was believed to be one of the most dangerous pirates at the time; 1718 3. On horseback; the roads were bad, so it was very difficult to send news over long distances. 4. By telegraph line

28. 5. They were very biased because journalists represented their own side in the war and reports were usually censored by the army or the government. 6. The inventions of radio and television 7. The plane landing on New York’s Hudson River

29. Words from today vocabulary quiz How good are your memories?

30. 2. I wish I hadn’t bought a second-hand car. ・regret (pause) She regretted buying a second-hand car. 3. Of course I’ll come with you. ・agree (pause) He agreed to come with me. 4. Why don’t we go out for dinner? ・suggest (pause) She suggested going out for dinner. 5. Shall I open the window? ・offer (pause) He offered to open the window. 6. You should ask the teacher. ・advise (pause) She advised me to ask the teacher.