Unit 7. The mass media

Quiz game: What is it?
It was invented by Guglielmo Marconi
When you turn the dial, you can hear a foreign language from a far country
It provides information and entertainment orally and you receive information aurally
It is a radio
Ask and answer the following questions
How often do you listen to the radio?
How many hours per week do you listen to it?
What programme do you like listening to and why?
Heavy rain
Flood
Mount Whitney
Cause
Ninety-year-Woman
Climb
Task 1: Listen to the two radio news stories and tick the words you hear in the right column under New story 1 and New story 2
x
x
x
x
x
Task 2: Listen to the radio news stories again and fill in the missing words
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
has caused floods
have left their homes
have risen
two meters
has stopped
cloudy
strong wind
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
twenty-third
4,418
California
wonderful
young and healthy
Task 3: Listen again, and answer the following questions
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?
Heavy rain has caused floods all over the country
Because rivers have risen
She has climbed Mount Whitney twenty three times
Because it has kept her young and healthy
Listen to the radio news stories again and
1.Heavy rain during the night has caused floods all
over the country today
2. Some roads in the north-west are under
metres of water
3. The rain at the moment
4. People can’t go out to work
5. A ninety - year-old woman has climbed
Mount Whitney in California twenty three times
6. Climbing mountain has kept her strong and healthy


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three
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is raining
has stopped
five
Do exercises in the workbook page 75
Prepare writing at home