Broadcasting the News

 1) Open Office.com PowerPoint presentation.

2) Share your document with your deskmate. 

3) Create a title slide together - what's the name of your channel / news programme, add your names 

4) Choose 1 domestic news - add only the headline and a relevant image. Take notes. 

5) Choose 1 international news. 

6) Choose 1 business and finance news.

7) Choose 1 sports news.

8) Choose 1 news for the gossip column / fake news

9) Decice which news is your breaking news and has to be the first. Move that slide to the front. 

10) Make sure you have divided your roles - who is reporting each news. 

Media: Vocabulary

Task 1: Browse the newspaper Postimees and find:

1) front page

2) headlines

3) an article

4) review

5) advertising

6) the slogan of the newspaper

7) date, price, sequence number

8) domestic news

9) a poll or a survey

10) international news

11) editorial

12) business and finance

13) arts and entertainment

14) review 

15) sports column / section

16) health and beauty

17) classified ads (find real estate, vechicles, announcements, services)

18) obituaries

19) horoscopes

20) games and crosswords

21) weather forecast

22) birthdays

23) Tv and radio guide

24) who's the editor-in-chief (EIC)

25) who's the editor of sports column

26) who's the publisher

27) letter(s) from the reader

Task 2: Extra words about media

 Definitions: HERE

biased

censorship

credibility

free press

editorial

fake news / disinformation

mainstream media / mass media

obituaries

paparazzi

press conference

print media

propaganda

clickbait

hacker

influencer

phishing

troll

viral

whistle-blower

________

billboard

anchor

primetime

A False Start

 1. Who is in the photo?

2. What is this thing used for? Which company invented it? (clue: it can be used in the kitchen and it's a company known for electronic devices)

 3. Who is in the photo? 

4. What is the name of this artist?

5. What's his name?

6. This achieved something very remarkable. What did he do?

Honours System

Task 1: Let's discuss

 1) Do you think we should select the best teacher, give titles to the best mother or father, vote for the best athletes etc? Does being popular and well-known mean the person is the best? 

2) Do you know the honours system used in Estonia? Who selects the nominees? Where do the ceremonies take place?

3) What do you know about the Nobel Prize?

4) Which awards do you  know that are given for films or best songs? 

5) Why some people don't accept the awards or titles they are given?

Task 2: Watch. British honours system: VIDEO

Task 3: Study the words

Duke / Duchess (hertsog / hertsoginna)

Marquess / Marchioness (markii / markiis)

Earl / Countess (krahv / krahvinna)

Viscount / Viscountess (vikont / vikontess)

Baron / Baroness (parun / paruness)

The Houses of Parliament / British Parliament: The House of Commons (650 members) and The House of Lords / (Peers) (790 members)

British honours: honours (6 different orders of chivalry, 4 orders of merit), decorations (to recognize special deeds, usually given to military forces) and medals (given for special service, long service or conduct)

Knight / Lady 

Commander

Companion

Sir / Dame

Famous People

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6. 

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10. 

Past Perfect

 

Video

KEY

1) offered, 

had booked

2) arrived, 

had died

3) took, 

had cut

4) had been, split

5) thought, 

had forgotten, 

were, 

hadn't

6) had, 

had damaged

7) saw, 

had arranged

8) got, 

had just begun

9) could talk, 

hadn't seen, 

left

10) turned, 

had already had

11) decided, 

hadn't been 

12) hadn't prepared, 

found

13) said, 

had made, 

believed

14) went, 

had finished

15) visited, 

had lived, 

hadn't been, 

had changed, 

didn't recognize, 

used

Sport Places

 field: baseball, American football

track: athletics, horse racing, running, cycling

court: basketeball, tennis, badminton, volleyball

rink: ice hockey, figure skating

ring: boxing

wall: climbing

stadium

pool: swimming, diving

course: golf, racing, sailing

gym

circuit: motor racing

pitch: football, rugby, cricket

diamond: baseball

slope: skiing

table: tennis, pool, snooker

piste: fencing, downhill skiing

mat: wrestling, judo, 

hall: 

oche: darts

cage: martial arts

VIDEO