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B2 UNIT 10 Culture Teacher's Notes

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Culture teacher’s notes B2 Unit

News online
LEARNING ■ I can learn about open journalism and online news around the world and make connections with my
OUTCOMES own culture.
■ I can discuss open journalism and online news and understand my own cultural identity.
■ I can make comparisons between cultures and use my own beliefs and values to improve my cultural
knowledge.

A VOCABULARY FOCUS Answers


1 people to give their input, to contribute, participate
engagement [n]: the feeling of being involved in a
and to shape and influence the news
particular activity
2 online newspapers, magazines, social media
influence [v]: to affect the way that someone thinks or
3 via social media, via comments, shares
behaves, or to affect the way that something happens
4 two-thirds are from outside the UK
input [n]: help in the form of ideas, advice or
information, used in a process or in making a decision 5 by reading comments, writing comments, sharing
articles, writing articles, breaking news via social media
instantaneously [adv]: immediately
6 USA Today, The New York Times, Washington Post
shifting [adj]: shifting things such as standards or
relationships are always changing 7 France
8 No, people can comment directly onto some articles
WARMER within online newspapers.
Ask students about social media and the news.
Write some of these questions on the board: Where Gateway to culture
can we find the news online? Where/How can you 3a Put students in pairs to discuss and answer the
find out what other people think about different questions. Elicit ideas and thoughts from the class.
news stories? Do you like to read other people's
comments? Where do they tend to be in the world? Answers
Do you comment on the news? How easy is it to Students' own answers
share the news? Have a class discussion to find out
students' answers to the questions. PROJECT
3b Explain to students that they are going to work in small
1 Ask students to look at the infographic and discuss groups of three or four to prepare a project on a news
the information with their partner. Elicit thoughts from story and how it has been covered in three different
students, then ask them to answer the question. countries. One will be their country, and a further two
in countries of their choice that covered the same
2a Students read the article about open journalism and story. They will make comparisons between the way
online news and answer the question. the journalist(s) covered the story and how/if open
Answers journalism was used in some way. Encourage students
closed journalism – a complete and finished article to discuss the points and questions given and any other
written by a journalist areas they find of interest.
open journalism – an article that may have been written For Step 1, they can choose an international news story,
by the journalist and is then also open for comment on or you could write a selection of some international
by its readers headlines on pieces of paper to help and ask groups to
pick one from a box. For Step 2, they will need Internet
2b Students read the article again and complete the access to do their research, and this can either be done
sentences. Have them check in pairs before checking as in class or at home. Students can share their findings
a whole class. with their group in the next class.
Answers 3c Students use their notes to make a presentation
1 online  2 increase  3 leading  4 intention   comparing the three countries' use of open journalism
5 anywhere  6 Breaking  7 accessed for the same story. Encourage students to discuss
what differences they found, and whether one
2c Have students answer the questions according to the country used open journalism more than another.
article. Check their answers in small groups before Make comparisons between the role of the public in
answering in open class. sharing and commenting on the story in the different
countries.

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