After You Watch Before You Watch: Unit 5 Through The Grapevine

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Open Mind Intermediate

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Unit 5  Through the grapevine After you watch


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Before you watch 1 Did you see those two politicians arguing on TV
last night? They got really angry with each other.
1/2 2 The president gave a speech about the economy.
1 Social media has changed the way we meet people, When he was finished, everyone applauded.
chat with friends, find and apply for jobs, discuss 3 Can you tell me how to use Twitter?
global issues … even how we organise parties.
4 I spend too much time chatting online.
2 Today more and more people are getting their news
5 How many languages can you speak?
from social media.
6 We need to discuss what we’re going to do next.
3 Major news organisations understand that news
reporting is changing.
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4 In some ways, the use of social media has improved 1 An interesting news article tells a story.
news reporting. 2 People are more involved with the news these days
5 Anybody can now be included in the news process, and can comment and say what they think.
tell their own story and say what they think. 3 It is sometimes difficult to know if a news story on
6 However, there are some problems. The biggest social media is telling the truth.
problem is what to believe. 4 One problem with social media is that people may
not ask permission before writing something.

While you watch 5 It is important for readers to ask questions, not just
accept what they read.
3 6 People on Twitter may not mean to tell a lie,
1 c they may just have the wrong information.
2 a
3 b
4 b
5 a

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