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ls This News?Discussion 1 Look at two people's opinions on television news. Which person do you most agree with?
Can you think of a recent example of something sensational appearing on the news? Reading Read the letter and answer this question: Does the wrirer have a point or is (s)he being too sensitive? TO THE PRODUCER(S) AT CHANNEL 8 Dear Sirs, I must say that I was shocked and outraged by your broadcast of the images of the Concorde crash last week. Was it really necessary to show the plane actually going down? This was prime-time television. Did it not occur to you that there are children watching at 8 o'clock in the evening? My 7-year-old little girl didn't sleep for three nights! The images still haunt me now as they will for a long time, I am sure. How dare you traumatise people's lives like that! I am a responsible parent who believes that it is the job of news agencies to report the news without showing unnecessarily sensational or graphic images simply to attract viewers. The terrible things that happen in the world are not meant to be used as entertainment nor to increase your ratings. You can be sure that I will no longer be watching your television news broadcast and I will be encouraging all my friends and relatives to boycott it too. Yours faithfully, Chris Hale Discussion 2 1. Which one of the factors below do you think most motivated the parent to write the letter? The time of the broadcast. The fact that the images showed people dying. The fact that children were watching. The fact that the images unnecessary. The suspicion that tbe images were used to improve the station's rating? 2. Would the same factor have motivated you to write a letter? 3. Do you agree with the parent? Why/why not? 4. Do you think a letter like this one would have any effect on the producers of the the news programme? 5. Do you think the parent who wrote the letter is a father or a mother? Why? Discussion 3 Work in groups of three or four. You are a team of news editors at a national television station. The news programme is broadcast during prime time when children will be watching. Look at today's possible stories and decide together whether the images should be broadcast or not. lf they cannot be broadcast at prime time, could they be shown in the late news, or should the film clips be censored completely?
Report your decisions to the class. Language Complete these expressions with words from above:
Discussion 4 Which countries today have censorship of the press and television? Why? Has your country ever had censorship? When? Why? Do you think the internet will make censorship a thing of the past?
ls This News? Vocabulary Notes audience [ˈɔːdiəns] a particular group of people who watch, read or listen to the same thing broadcast [ˈbrɔːdkɑːst] (broadcast) to send out programmes on television or radio casualty [ˈkæʒuəlti] a person who is killed or injured in war or in an accident; Pl casualties. haunt [hɔːnt] if smth unpleasant haunts you, it keeps coming to your mind so that you cannot forget it. mature [məˈtʃʊə(r)] fully grown and developed; behaving in a sensible way, like an adult occur [əˈkɜː(r)] to happen; occur to smb to come into smb's mind prime-time the time when the greatest number of people are watching television or listening to the radio provocative [prəˈvɒkətɪv] intended to make people angry or upset scene [siːn] the place where something happens shock (v) to surprise and upset somebody shoot [ʃuːt] (shot) to make a film/movie; to kill or wound smb with a bullet traumatise [ˈtrɔːmətaɪz] to shock and upset somebody very much viewer [ˈvjuːə(r)] a person watching a (television) programme violent [ˈvaɪələnt] involving or caused by physical force that is intended to hurt or kill somebody Active Vocabulary
Vocabulary Practice 1. Fill in the gaps in the sentences below, using the words in the box:
1) Jane is very ____ for her age. 2) Neighbours were ____that such an attack could happen in their area. 3) The movie was ___in black and white. 4) It didn't ____ to him to ask for help. 5) The memory of that day still ____ me. 6) Children should not be allowed to watch ___movies. 7) His book reached an even wider____ when it was made into a movie. 8) Italy was the ____ of many demonstrations at that time.
3. Use English to explain the following: E.g. Prime-time is the time when the greatest number of people are watching television or listening to the radio 1. provocative images, 2. sensational images, 3. violent scenes, 4. a national television station, 5. sensitive region of the world, 6. a responsible parent.
Date: 2015-02-16; view: 719
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