Lesson 21

Mass Media. Introducing the topic

Aims and objectives:

• introducing the topic

• introducing the vocabulary

• developing basic skills

Equipment: writing paper, handouts

Sequence

I. Warming-up

Find Someone Who...

can name five Ukrainian newspapers

can name at least two British or American newspapers

reads magazines

never watches (soaps) serials on TV

has satellite TV at home

has cable at home

listens to radio regularly

reads newspapers regularly

never reads newspapers or magazines

never watches TV

never listens to the radio

likes to watch or read news

hates TV shows

likes watching soaps (serials)

uses the Internet to learn the news or watch movies or musical programs

Each student in the class has to interview the others and get the number of people who do / don’t do the activity. The results are reported to the class.

II. Main part

1. Introducing the topic

The teacher asks the students to comment on the issues raised in the warming-up activity and the ways they got the answers (interviewing) trying to elicit the name of the topic "Mass media”. As soon as the name is given, the teacher introduces rhe topic.

2. Brainstorming

The teacher asks the students to brainstorm on the issue and give as many associations as possible. This can be done with the whole class, one of the students jotting down the ideas on the board.

After the brainstorm is finished, the teacher asks the class to classify the ideas into categories ("Types of mass media”, "”Purpose”, "Audience”, etc.)

3. Group discussion

The class is divided into 4 groups. They draw lots and pick a medium to speak about ("Press”, "Radio”, "TV”, "Internet”). The task is to persuade the class that the medium is better than the others by telling about the advantages of their medium and disadvantages of the others.

To help do this, the groups ma be provided with a table to fill in.

The groups report their ideas to the class.

4. Introducing vocabulary

The teacher offers a list of new words and expressions, the students are to match the vocabulary to definitions and then to the medium (here more than one variant will be possible). This can also be done in groups with further class discussion.

The students comment on their answers, especially when matching the vocabulary and the media.

III. Summary

IV. Homework

Students are to make up sentences concerning mass media using the active vocabulary.

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