Студопедия

КАТЕГОРИИ:


Архитектура-(3434)Астрономия-(809)Биология-(7483)Биотехнологии-(1457)Военное дело-(14632)Высокие технологии-(1363)География-(913)Геология-(1438)Государство-(451)Демография-(1065)Дом-(47672)Журналистика и СМИ-(912)Изобретательство-(14524)Иностранные языки-(4268)Информатика-(17799)Искусство-(1338)История-(13644)Компьютеры-(11121)Косметика-(55)Кулинария-(373)Культура-(8427)Лингвистика-(374)Литература-(1642)Маркетинг-(23702)Математика-(16968)Машиностроение-(1700)Медицина-(12668)Менеджмент-(24684)Механика-(15423)Науковедение-(506)Образование-(11852)Охрана труда-(3308)Педагогика-(5571)Полиграфия-(1312)Политика-(7869)Право-(5454)Приборостроение-(1369)Программирование-(2801)Производство-(97182)Промышленность-(8706)Психология-(18388)Религия-(3217)Связь-(10668)Сельское хозяйство-(299)Социология-(6455)Спорт-(42831)Строительство-(4793)Торговля-(5050)Транспорт-(2929)Туризм-(1568)Физика-(3942)Философия-(17015)Финансы-(26596)Химия-(22929)Экология-(12095)Экономика-(9961)Электроника-(8441)Электротехника-(4623)Энергетика-(12629)Юриспруденция-(1492)Ядерная техника-(1748)

HOMEWORK. Web users going to Wikipedia for news




Web users going to Wikipedia for news

READING

WHAT KIND OF NEWS?

SPEAKING

What kind of news stories do you choose to read, watch or listen to? Why?

Write a value of 1 (never read, watch, listen to) to 10 (always read, watch, listen to) in the middle column for each of the categories in the left column. Which is the best news source for each of these? Why?

 

CATEGORY VALUE NEWS SOURCE
World news    
Domestic news    
Gardening    
Motoring    
Politics    
Sports    
Science    
Entertainment    
Gossip    
Business    

In pairs / groups, share and compare your values. Ask each other to explain in full, with examples, exactly why you chose your scores.

Change partners and report what you heard from your first partners. Are there any similarities between different students’ answers?

Read and fill in the spaces.

A new and ____________ player has joined the ranks of Internet news sites. Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is ____________ as the online resource of choice for millions of increasingly ____________ web surfers. People are eager for more in-depth analysis, context and reference material about the latest news stories. Hitwise, the Internet traffic ____________ site, reports Wikipedia attracted 22.3 percent of people searching for information on the Gaza Strip when Israel withdrew its ____________ in August. This beat Google News, Yahoo News and the BBC hands down. It seems the traditional news services are unable to ____________ satisfy surfers’ ___________ demand for information.

Wikipedia was founded in 2001 and has quickly ___________, growing to almost 700,000 articles in 100 languages. Encyclopedia Britannica has a paltry 80,000 articles in ___________. Wikipedia can be edited in real time by anyone, which raises questions with critics about the ___________ and accuracy of some of the facts and statements on the site. However, it is the ___________, community-based nature of its contributions and editing policies that allows it to provide such ________ ______ information. This is in stark contrast to the rigid top-down editorial ___________ of other news sites. The popularity of Wikipedia can be also attributed to its having entries on almost anything from the latest bizarre trends to ___________, up-to-the-minute coverage of Hurricane Katrina.

1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google’s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word.

2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find more information on Wikipedia. Share your findings with your class in the next lesson.

3. WEB SITE COMPARISON: Make a poster comparing three different news web sites. Show your posters to your classmates in your next lesson. Did you all find out about similar things?

4. NEWS DAY: Keep an account of how much time you spend looking at, reading, watching, discussing, thinking about, writing about, studying about news for one day in your life. Explain your findings to your classmates in your next lesson. Did you all have similar news habits?




Поделиться с друзьями:


Дата добавления: 2015-01-03; Просмотров: 507; Нарушение авторских прав?; Мы поможем в написании вашей работы!


Нам важно ваше мнение! Был ли полезен опубликованный материал? Да | Нет



studopedia.su - Студопедия (2013 - 2024) год. Все материалы представленные на сайте исключительно с целью ознакомления читателями и не преследуют коммерческих целей или нарушение авторских прав! Последнее добавление




Генерация страницы за: 0.012 сек.