Choose a story for a news programme Read the advert. Why does NBS want a focus group? Reading 21 a https://www.nbs.com/programme NBS is developing a new weekly programme called The World This Week covering interesting and entertaining stories from around the world. We need television enthusiasts aged between 18 and 65 to attend a meeting in order to share their views on what makes a good TV news programme today. During the meeting, we will ask you to discuss current stories in the news and to select one of the stories as the starting point for a half-hour programme. If you’re interested, please email Jennie asap at: jen@NBS-marketing.com Complete the sentences about news stories by choosing the active or passive past simple form of the verbs in brackets. 1 Apparently, the dinosaurs (kill) off by a huge asteroid. 2 Did you hear that our hockey team (win) gold? 3 I heard Meyer (rob) of $7,000 after leaving the awards ceremony. 4 You know that journalist? He (free) yesterday by the kidnappers. 5 It was a terrible match – we (deserve) to lose. 6 The bank is saying that details of 24,000 clients (steal) in the raid. 7 I’m reading about these sisters who (separate) at birth. Listen to Melek and Tom talking about one of the news stories in 16. 1 Which story is it? 2 Tom mentions another article. How is it linked to the first story? Complete sentences 1–7 from the conversation with A–G. 1 Did you hear that thing A a while ago. 2 Was it the one about B these twins were part of an experiment. 3 I heard something about that. C in the news about the twins? 4 I read a similar article D Weren’t they from New York? 5 It was talking about E the parents didn’t know about it. 6 It actually said F the identical twins? 7 Yes, but apparently, G whether it’s nature that makes us the way we are or nurture … 16 Listening 17 65 zf4t6d Vocabulary Talking about news stories 18 You’re going to discuss two articles about drugs in sport. Work in A/B pairs. 1 A, read the article on p. 137; B, read the article on p. 140. Underline the main ideas. 2 Think about your own opinions on the topic. Sum up your article for your partner and then talk about the articles together. Do you agree with each other? Should drugs be allowed in sport? Why? Why not? Work in A/B pairs. A, you understand that athletes under pressure turn to drugs and doping to enhance their performance. B, you have zero tolerance for these unfair methods. Make notes of your main arguments and try to find examples to support your point of view. Talk in pairs. Try to convince your partner of your point of view. In class, have a vote to see which opinion has gained more followers. a Speaking 19 b c 20 a b c 120 Language skills Extras Explore 10 In the news Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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