Unit 5. The media

Thursday, November 25, 2010
Period 28
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Period 28
Week 16 (1) - Period 31
LISTEN.
Unit 5 - THE MEDIA
Listen to a conversation between Chau and her father. Fill in the table with the information you hear.
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The late 19th century
Radio and newsreels
In the 1950s
The Internet
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Chau: Dad, I’m doing an assignment. Can you help me with the information?
Chau’s father: What is the assignment about?
Chau: It’s a bout the important dates of the media. Where and when did the first printed newspaper appear, Dad?
Chau’s father: It first appeared the 7th or 8th century AD, in China.
Chau: And when the telegraph invented?
Chau: And when the telegraph invented?
Chau’s father: Perhaps it was in (a) the late 19th century. Do you know what two new forms of news media appeared in the early 20th century?
Chau: (b) Radio and newsreel?
Chau’s father: Excellent! And when did television become commercially viable, can you guess?
Chau: In the 1940s?
Chau’s father: No. it was (c) in the 1950s
Chau: When did the Internet become a major force in journalism?
Chau’s father: In the mid- and late 1990s
Chau: Thank you, Dad. Now I can answer all the questions for my assignment.
THANK you for your ATTENTION
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