Unit 7. The mass media

HELLO EVERYBODY.
Warmly Welcme You to our Class.
- What is this?
- Do you know who was the first person who sent telegraph signals through the air using radio waves?





Marconi (1874 – 1937), an Italian inventor.



On Dec. 12, 1901, Marconi and his staff sent and received the first wireless transatlantic communication in history.


Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions.
1. What is a radio used for?
2. How often do you listen to the radio?
3. How many hours per week do you listen to it?
4. What topics do you like listening to and why?
Mount Whitney
You are going to listen to two news stories.
Mount Whitney
Vocabulary:
Healthy (adj)
Strong (adj)
Young (adj)
Cloudy (adj)
Highest (adj)
Wonderful (adj)
North-west (n)
View (n)
Old age (n)
News story (n)
strong and well
a picture of a particular place
the part of your life when you are young
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Pre-listening task.
* Read the following statements and guess if they are true or false according to the news stories which you are going to listen to.

Some roads in some areas are under three metres of water.
The rain has not stopped yet.
A ninety-year-old woman has to stop climbing mountain because of her old age.
Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in the U.S.
The view from the top of Mount Whitney is not very beautiful, but she tries to climb it often.

Task 1. Listen to the two radio news stories and tick the words you hear in the right column under News story 1 and News story 2.
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Task 2. Listen to the radio news stories again and fill in the missing word(s).
Heavy rain causes floods all over the country
Heavy rain during the night (1)…………………………all over the country today. Many people (2)……………………………because rivers (3) …………………………… Some roads in the north-west are under (4)…………………………of water. The rain (5)…………………………at the moment, but it’s still (6)……………………and there’s a (7)………………….....Because of the bad weather, people can’t go out to work.

90-year-old American woman climbs Mount Whitney.
A ninety-year-old woman has climbed Mount Whitney in California for the (1)………………………time. At (2)……………………metres, Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in (3)………………………… The woman says the view from the top is (4)……………………………, so she tries to climb it often. She also says that the mountain has kept her (5)………………………………… In spite of her old age, the woman tries to climb the mountain very often.
has caused floods
have left their homes
have risen
two metres
has stopped
cloudy
strong wind
twenty-third
4,418
California
wonderful
young and healthy
Task 3. Listen again, and answer the following questions
What has happened during the night?
Why have many people left their homes?
How many times has the old woman climbed Mount Whitney?
Why does she climb it so often?
Task 3. Listen again, and answer the following questions
Suggested answers:

1. What has happened during the night?
Heavy rain has caused floods all over the country during the night.

2. Why have people left their homes?
Because rivers have risen.

3. How many times has the old woman climbed Mount Whitney?
The old woman has climbed Mount Whitney twenty-three times.

4. Why does she climb it so often?
Because it has kept her young and healthy.
POST- LISTENING TASK:
News story 1
What has happened during the night?
Why have many people left their homes?
How deep are some roads under the water?
Has the rain stopped at the moment?
Is there a strong wind?
Why can’t people go out to work?
News story 2
1. How many times has the old woman climbed Mount Whitney?
2. How high is Mount Whitney?
3. Is it the highest in California?
4. What does she say about the view from the top?
5. Why does she climb it so often?
6. Does she stop climbing mountain because of her old age?
Close your book. Recall the two news stories and answer the following questions about the news stories. Use the answers to those questions to tell your classmates about them. Chose one of the news stories only.
Thank you for your observation.
by Dao Cong Vinh