Subject of the lesson: The World of Mass Media. The Press
The objectives:
- to enrich pupils’ knowledge on the topic ‘Mass Media’;
- to practice listening and reading skills;
- to teach pupils to write a newspaper article;
- to teach pupils to form their own thoughts;
- to widen pupils’ outlook as to the topic ‘Mass Media’;
- to develop pupils’ memory and creative skills;
- to upbring positive attitude to foreign language.
Procedure
I. Introduction
1. Greeting
T: Good morning students! Glad to see you. I’m sure everybody is all right. Let’s make our
lesson interesting and useful.
2. Aims
T: As we know, the 21st century is considered as the age of information. People are united
into one global community with the help of the mass media. They can learn about what is
happening in the world very fast using the new technologies.
Today we are going to speak about mass media because they actually rule the world and
play a very important part in our lives.
By the end of the lesson you will be able:
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to identify the main ideas and details of the text while reading;
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to develop your discussion skills;
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to activate your background knowledge of the topic;
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to improve your confidence as readers;
And at the end of the lesson you are going to get good and excellent marks.
3. Motivation
Pair work
T: Take a piece of paper and write what kind of student you are. Work in pairs.
Pay attention to the pronunciation.
e.g.
- We are students.
- We are smart students.
- We are talented students.
- We are the clevereststudents.
- We try to be the best students in the world.
4. Warming up
Interactive exercise “Brainstorming.”
T. Dear children! Do you want to be well-educated people, to study at the universities in
Kyiv, Lviv or maybe even abroad?
Do you want to get a good well-paid job?
In order to be successful you must be able to find necessary information from different
mass media sources.
What association does come across to your mind when you hear the words ''Mass Media''?
Answer to my question and write the words on the blackboard.
Mind-Map
THE MEDIA
The examples of the pupils' answers:
P. I associate the Media with the Internet.
II. Main part of the lesson
1.Speaking.
Interactive exercise ’Microphone’
T. Today we are having a short press conference. And our school reporter Vika wants to
ask you some questions about mass media and their role in our life. As you know, mass
media consist of Publishing, Audio Recording, Broadcasting, Films and Digital Media.
P: I’m a reporter of our school newspaper ‘Step Up’. Let’s discuss mass media.
Questions:
a) What do you know about publishing?
b) The ancient mass media were books. Do you agree with me?
c) And how about broadcasting?
d) What does Audio Recording consist of?
e) And the next question for you is about Digital Media. What is it?
f) What is the most popular kind of mass media nowadays?
Pupils’ answers.
2. Watching the video and writing.
A reporter: Thank you for your answers. I want to ask you to write a newspaper story at
home. School reporters need your articles for our newspaper ‘Step Up’. Good luck.
Teacher: Let’s learn how to write a newspaper article. Watch a video ‘Parts of a Newspaper
Story’. I’ll give you the cards and your task will be to match the parts of a newspaper story
and their definitions.
1. Headline( b)
2. Byline (e )
3. Lead (f)
4. Quote (c)
5. Body (d)
6. Ending (a)
a) gives the reader something to remember
b) is the title that tells the story in Bold type
c) provides a ‘source’ for the story (where you got your
information from)
d) answers questions for the readers: who, what, where, how.
e) gives the writer credit for the story
f) tells the most important thing in the newspaper story. It’s
‘the main idea’.
3. Multimedia Presentation.
T. And now it’s time to learn some facts about the press.
Pupil’s presentation.
(Slide show)
4. Reading
Text 1. Newspapers.
Text 2. Magazines.
5. Group work
T: Put the parts of the text in the correct order, read the text and present it to the second
group.
Newspaper
Newspaper is a publication that presents and comments on the news. Newspapers may be
of general or specific interest. They play an important role in shaping public opinion and
informing people of current events.
There are daily newspapers and weekly newspapers. Daily newspapers print world,
national and local news. Many dailies are morning papers, others are afternoon papers.
Sunday issues of the dailies are usually larger than the weekday ones.
The dailies in the USA are ''Christian Science Monitor'', ''New York Times'', '' USA Today'',
''Wall Street Journal'', ''Washington Post''.
Weekly newspapers serve usually for smaller areas. They are printed in small communities
where people know each other and are interested in activities of their friends and
neighbours. Weeklies report of weddings, births, deaths and news of local business and
politics. Most weeklies do not print world or national news.
Magazine
Magazine is one of the major mass media. Magazine is a collection of articles and stories.
Magazines usually contain illustrations.
Magazines provide information on a wide range of topics such as business, culture,
hobbies, medicine, religion, science and sports. Some magazines entertain their readers
with fiction, poetry, photography or articles about TV or movie stars.
Magazines are designed to be kept for a longer time in comparison to newspapers and that
is why they are printed on a better paper and have covers and binding. Magazines, unlike
newspapers, do not focus on daily, rapidly changing events.
There are specialized magazines intended for special business, industrial and professional
groups, and consumer magazines intended for general public. There are several kinds of
consumer magazines. They are children's magazines, intellectual magazines. Also there
are men’s or women’s magazines.
6. Writing
Write a media quiz. Match the facts to the figures and make a sentence in the passive
using the verbs given and the information in the box. (Cards)
III. Summarizing.
1. Homework
Write a newspaper article.
2. Evaluation.
3. Summarizing.