A. READING
Befor you read
Work in a partner. Ask and answer the following questions.
1. When do you often watch TV?
2. How many channels are there n our national TV?
3. How many hours per week do you watch TV?
While you read
Look at some popular TV programmes, and then do the tasks that follow.
VTV1
05:35 Morning Exercise
06:30 Population and Development
07:20 Cartoon: The Adventure of Donald Duck
08:00 TV Series: Road of Life
09:00 News
09:15 Film: When the Birds Return
10:15 Comedy: Family Secrets
11:00 Music
12:00 Fifteen-minute
13:00 Film: The Beauty of Life
14:20 People's Army
16:15 Film: Punishment
19:00 News
20:00 Sport Comments
21:30 Folk Songs
23:00 News Headlines
23:30 Wether Forecast
VTV2
15:15 Wildlife World
17:00 Around the World
18:30 Science Documentary
19:00 business Comments
20:00 Learning English through Songs
VTV3
07:30 Quiz Show
09:15 Drama:Stolen Heart
10:00 Music for Children
11:30 Portrait of Life
12:00 Film: Deep in the City
14:30 Theatre: May Life
15:15 Documentary:The Nature of Language
16:00 Culture and Education
19:00 News
20:00 Sports
21:30 Film: Huets of the Nation
23:00 Football: Liverpool vs. West Ham
Task 1. The words in A appear in the reading pasage. Match them with their definitions in B.
Task 2. Decide whether the following statements are true (T) or fale (F). Correct the false information.
1. There are five news programmes on the three channels.
2. There is a comedy programme on between 10:15 and 11:00.
3. The Nature of Language í a documentary reogramme at 15:15 on VTV2.
4. The film punishment in shown at 4:15 p.m. on VTV1.
5. VTV1 starts at 5:35 and ends at 23:30.
After you read
Work in pairs. Tell your partner about one of the TV programmes you like watching best and explain why.
B. SPEAKING
Task 1. Work in pairs. Which of the following are the types of the mass media? Put a tick ( ) next to the words.
dictionaries(...) books (...) newspapers (...)
television (...) magazines (...) plays (...)
films (...) radio (...) the Internet (...)
Task 2. Work in pairs. Work out what feature(s) the types of the mass media have in common and what feature(s) each of them has. Use the cues below.
Example
TV presents information and entertainment visually and we receive them through our eyes.
Task 3. Work in groups. Talk about different types of the mass media. Answer through our eyes.
1. What are different types of the mass media?
2. What feature(s) do they have in common?
3. What are their distinctive features?
C.LISTENING
Before you listen
Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions.
1. How often do you listen to the radio?
2. How many hour oer week do you listen to it?
3. What programme do you like listening to and why?
While you listen
Task 1. Listen to the two radio news stories and tick the words you hear in the righ column under News story 1 and News story 2.
News story 1 News story
healthy
strong
young
cloudy
highest
wonderful
Task 2. Listen to the radio news stories again and fill in the missing word(s).
Heavy rain causes floods all over the country
Heavy rain during the night (1).................................. all over the country today.
Many people (2)......................... because rivers (3).................... . Some roads in the north-west are under (4)............................. of water. The rain (5)....................... at Because of the bad weather, people can't go out to work.
09-year-old American woman climbs Mount Whitney
A ninety-year-old woman has climbed Mount Whitney in Califormia for the (1)...................... time. At (2).................. metres, Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in (3) .............. . The woman says the view from the top is (4)......................., so she tries to climb it often. She also says that the mountain has kept her (5) .................... . In spite of her old age, the woman tries climb the mountaun very often.
Task 3. Listen again. anf answer the following questions.
1. what has happened during the night?
2. Why have people left their homes?
3. how many times has the old woman climbed Mount Whitney?
4. Why does she climb it so often?
After you listen
Work in groups. Choose one of the news stories and tell your classmates about it
D. WRITING
Writing about advantages and disadvantages
Task 1. Read about the advantages and disadantages below.
Television can make things memorable because it presents information in an
Task 2. Work in pairs. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the mass media, and write them down in the columns below.
Task 3. Write a paragraph about the advantages and disadvantages of one of the mass media discussed in Task 2.
E. LANGUAGEV FOCUS
Pronunciation
. Listen and repeat.
/ei/ /ai/ /@i/
play time voice
today wildlife noise
radio height toy
newspaper buy enjoy
they type destroy
. Practise these sentences
1. I.m afraid you've mede a mistake.
2. They changed the timetable at the end of April.
3. I have ninety-nine pages to type by Friday
4. Would you like to ga for a ride with me on Friday?
5. This is the noisiest Rolls Royce I've ever deard.
6. While you're changing the oil, I'll go and visit my boy.
Grammar and vocabulary
Exercise 1. Complete the letter, using the present perfect of the verbs in the box.
Diar Tom,
Here I am in New York! I(1).................... here for two weeks now and it's very exciting. My friend, Nancy (I met her in london in 1992.) (2)............................... in New York seven years, so she nows all about it. I(3)........................... a lot of eople and I(4)................ all the things that tourists usually do. I(5)......................... a hot lunch in china town. I(6).................................. atrip to the statue of libety.
I even(7)........................ a ball game on tv!
Back on the 19th.
See you later,
mình
Exercise 2. Complete the following sentences using for, since or ago.
1. Lan and Minh have lived in Ho Chi Minh City ........................ 1999.
2. Hoa and Quan quarreled with each other some time .............................. .
3. The house is very dirty. We haven't cleaned it .................... ages.
4. We haven't had a good meal ................................... three weeks.
5. ............................... Christmas, the weather has been quite good.
6. They have known each other ............................... a long time.
7. They first met a long time ......................... .
8. They arrived home ten minutes ............................. .
9. It's two years ................................... you last saw Linda ??
Exercise 3. Complete the following sentences, using the information in the box.
1. Because of the cold weather ...................................................................... .
In spite of the cold weather ....................................................................... .
2. Because of his illness .......................................................... .
In spite of his illness .............................................................. .
3. Because of the large crowds ............................................................................ .
In spite of the large crowds .................................................. .
4. Because of the meat shortage ................................................. .
In spite of the maet shortage ............................................... .
5. Because of the bad condition of the house..................................................... .
In spite of the bad condition of the houes
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UNIT 7: THE MASS MEDIA
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