Unit 7. The mass media

Tuesday, December 9th 2008
Period 39 - Unit 7: The Mass Media
C: Listening
Warm-up: Match the music and the programmes
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Youth
d
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Bedtime Story
Radio News
Music Show
Before you listen: Ask and answer the questions
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How often do you listen to the radio?
How many hours a week do you listen to it?
What programme do you like listening to and why?
Before you listen: Look at the pictures and guess what you are going to listen about.

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Heavy rain causes floods
An old woman climbs Mount Whitney
heavy rain
flood
climb
Task 1: Tick the words you hear in the right column
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Task 2a: Listen to news story 1 and mark T or F
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night
two
can`t go
Task 2b: Listen to news story 2 and fill in the missing words
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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.
twenty-third
4,418
California
wonderful
young and healthy
Many people have left their homes because rivers have risen.
1, What has happened during the night?



2, Why have people left their homes?




3, How many times has the old woman climbed Mount Whitney?



4, Why does she climb it so often?
Because the view from the top is wonderful and
the mountain has kept her young and healthy.
She has climbed Mount Whitney twenty-three times.
Heavy rain during the night has caused floods
all over the country today.
Task 3: Answer the questions
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After you listen: Choose one of the news stories and tell about it.
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When
What
Where
HOw
Floods in Hanoi
Mount Everest
(8,805 metres)
- Nepal
3
Vietnamese people
Write the news story your group have prepared in After you listen.
Prepare for Writing.
III. Homework
Write the answers
Write about your last Tet holiday
Thank you.
See you again.