5.5. Making News

5.5.1. Discussion spot.

What’s new in the world (Ukraine, Kyiv, your place)? How do you know that? Is it difficult to follow the latest events? Do you think it is difficult to make (prepare) news?

5.5.2. How would you define the notion of “news”? Find the definition in the English-English dictionary.

5.5.3. Study the diagram. Make the compound words starting with news and join them with their definitions.

news…

agent cast letter reader

-y conference flash paper

agent’s (s)peak stand caster reel

room group print

worthy sheet vendor

• n a television or radio broadcast of the news

• n press conference

• n someone who owns or works in a newsagent’s

• n someone who reads the news on the radio or television (1)

• n someone who reads the news on the radio or television (2)

• n a shop that sells newspapers, magazines, and things like sweets and cigarettes

• n a group of people who use the Internet to exchange emails about a particular subject

• n printed publication of loose folded sheets containing news, advertisements, correspondence, etc.

• adj interesting or important enough to be included in the news

• processed

• n a regular report with information for people who belong to an organization or who are interested in a particular subject

• n room in a newspaper or broadcasting office where news is news-sheet n simple form of newspaper

• n cheap, low quality paper used to print newspapers

• n single item of important news, broadcast urgently and often interrupting other programmes

• n ambiguous euphemistic language used esp. in political propaganda [an artificial official language in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four]

• adj full of news

• n short cinema film of recent events

• n a small shop in a public area of a building or station, or part of a bigger shop, where newspapers and magazines are sold

• n newspaper-seller

5.5.4. Discussion spot.

What do you think a profession of a journalist is like? Think about pros and cons of being a journalist. Do the school teachers ever use any skills of the journalists?

5.5.5. Discussion spot.

Is the increase in non-professional journalism a good thing? What are the advantages and disadvantages of newspapers, TV and Internet news?

5.5.6. Discussion spot.

Have you ever seen the student newspaper? What is it like? Have you ever participated in making it? What kind of articles do you think a student newspaper might contain? How difficult do you think it would be to publish a student newspaper?

5.5.6.1. Read the two short articles which appeared in a student newspaper. Ignore the gaps. Give answers to the questions:

1. Which article is about:

a) a study trip abroad? b) an educational visit?

2. Which article do you think has been written by:

a) a teacher? b) a student?

A

Annual trip to the Science Museum

On February 8^th, the whole of our year travelled by coach to the Science Museum. The Flight Gallery of the museum contains some impressive full-sized aircraft, the secrets of a flight box recorder and what was(1) _________ the students’ favourite exhibit - the amazing flight simulator experience. The “Secret Life of the Home” Gallery also had some good interactive demonstrations of televisions and CD players.(2)______, it was a very enjoyable (3)______ spending three and a half hours stuck in London traffic jams. (4)_______, our coach did not have computerised traffic system! On the way home, we all started to ask the teachers: ’Where are we going next year?’

B