What Do You Think About the News?
Family and Community Environment
1 What kinds of news stories do you enjoy listening to?
Social Practice of the Language To exchange opinions about audio news. Achievements • Listen to and explore news in familiar contexts. • Understand audio news.
2 Look at the different sections of the news.Which is your favorite section?
• Exchange opinions. Product: Questionnaire
c Science &
a Sports
b World news
d Business
e Arts
Technology
3 What kinds of news stories do think you can find in each section?
4 Listen and decide which section each news story is from. 10
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5 Match the sentence halves. Listen and check.Tell each other what you think happens in each news story. 11 107 1 New factory
a have won the final game. b will give free concerts.
2 Scientists 3 The Eagles 4 The Museum of Fine Arts 5 Australian firemen
c are trying to stop wildfires. d will give hundreds of jobs. e have recorded sounds of planets and stars.
6 Listen again and notice how pauses,sound effects,word phrases,or numbers are used to show change of topic.Answer the questions. 11 • Are pauses used? • Are sound effects used? • Are phrases used? • Are numbers used?
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