Hello everyone!
I hope you had wonderful family and friends time for the holidays! And I know you have slightly longer time during the day to hang out and enjoy the spring weather, but that doesn't mean that you should forget about school, at least for one more month! So, listen up: we begin a new unit today, that is unit 11.
As you can read, its title is Making the news. We are going to deal with news reports and reporting in general. (yes, reported speech on its way :) But, today let's look at pages 102 and 103 in our book. Before we read the text, the first couple of exercises refer to one rather specific profession - a (news) journalist. Think and quickly answer
TASK 1:
1. Which qualities do you need to be a news journalist? (use the options given in exercise 1, but feel free to add your own)
2. Would you like to be a journalist? Explain why or why not. (Exercise 3)
Next read the article. The text begins on p.102, but continues on the next page, so I give you that one as well
It's an article about the tradition of journalists playing jokes on people on April Fool's Day. We were supposed to be in school on the 1st April and discuss this then. Unfortunately, due to the situation, April Fool's has long passed; on the other hand, many people play jokes not only on this day 😅
The tradition of pulling someone's leg (do you know this idiom?), especially in the press, in the so-called onion news, is long and fruitful in the English-speaking countries. This also happens in the regular media, however, limited to 1st April only. The article follows some of these pranks through the years.
TASK 2
1. Match the people's statements in exercise 6 to the stories from the text.
2. Look at the THINK VALUES section on page 103, exercise 3. Choose 1 or 2, think about the concept and give your view on it.
This homework is due to Monday, 4th May, 23:59 pm.
