Media

How often do you read newspapers or watch the news on TV?

Is there anything the news shouldn't report on? Why?

Would you like to be in the news?

Do you think that the media in our country is objective?

The people in these pictures prefer to catch up on the news in different ways.

Talk about the possible advantages and disadvantages of each of them.

Which of these would you use to ...

• amuse yourself?• learn what’s going

on in the world?• check the latest

football news?• kill time?• find out about the traffic in town?• catch up on local news?

Justify your answers and give examples.

• How often do you watch TV?

• What kind of TV programmes do you usually watch?

• Do you think the TV schedules are suitable for children?

• Could you live without TV?

• Do people watch less TV because of the Internet?

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“TV kills social interaction.”

Do you agree?

• Do you think printed newspapers will become extinct one day?

• When was the last time you bought a newspaper?

• Do you ever stop to read the headlines? What kind of news they usually bring?

What do you think the story behind each of these

headlines could be?

GOVERNMENT TAKES TOO LONG TO ACT

“I’M NOT ASHAMED” – CELEBRITY SAYS

THREE ARRESTEDACCUSED OF CYBERCRIME

Discuss:

“One day the Internet will be the only media available.”

“The Internet has revolutionised the way we learn the news.”

“I cannot remember what life was like without the Internet”

Does anything annoy you about Internet? What?

Are you in favour of censorship on the

Internet?

What do you think of these statements?

• Nobody listens to the radio anymore.

• The future of radio stations is online.

• Radio stations can help a lot when you are stuck in traffic.

Do you have a favourite radio station?

How could radio programmes be more interesting?

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