Unit 4 News 24/7
Active Reading (1)
Reading and Understanding
3. Choose the best answer to the questions
1.c  2.a  3.c  4.d  5.a  6. a  7.c
Dealing with unfamiliar words
4. Answer the questions about the words in the box.
1. No, it is made more exciting in some way.
2. A very long time, centuries.
3. They should follow the guidelines.
4. They should check the source.
5. They live in poverty.
6. It is image.
7. It is element.
5. Match the words in the box with their definitions.
1.chase  2.trainee  3.erode  4.odd  5.horror  6.startle  7.echo  8.reaction  9.frame
6. Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in Activity 5.
1.reactions…horror  2.chase  3.echoes  4.startled  5.trainees  6.eroded  7.oddest  8. frame
7. Answer the questions about the words.
1.a  2.b  3.a  4.b  5.b  6.a
Reading and interpreting
8. Decide what evidence there is for the following statements. If there is no evidence, decide what the passage really says.
1. This is not the passage. It is noted that bad news is common, but no judgment as to the desirability or otherwise of this is given.
2. Many people, we are told, reacted in the same way to bad news in the case of 9/11 and the assassination of President Kennedy, so such a reaction is normal.
3. Yes, as and example is given of people feeling a need to pass on the bad news they had heard. (See pare 2: Their first instinct was to go and tell someone else about it.)
4. Yes. (See para4: We seek the odd and unexpected.)
5. Not stated – the passage says such issues never seem to have the same impact because the stories are ongoing and not reported in all newspapers on the same day, but bit by bit here and there.
6. Immediacy is part of news so such an item is certainly potentially news, but of course it might be too trivial to really be considered such.
7. Yes, mostly.
8. No. Paragraph 8 says the camera position has an important effect on how viewers understand the story.
9. The passage mentions people talk of the power of the press, but does not really comment on it; though the use of the rather negative covertly might hint disapproval.
9. Decide why italics are used in the sentences.
1. To take the place of quotation marks.
2. For emphasis.
3. To give the name of a newspaper.
4. To introduce a new term.
Active Reading (2)
Dealing with unfamiliar words
3. Match the words and expressions in the box with their definitions.
1.assignment  2.editorial  3.revenue  4.close down  5.survey  6.rely on  7. feedback  8.bureau
4. Complete the conversation with the correct form of the words and expressions in Activity3.
1.assignment  2.bureau  3.rely on  4.feedback  5.surveys    6.editorial  7.revenue  8.close down
5. Replace the underlined words with the correct form of the words in the box.
1.capture  2.extablished; Nevertheless  3.estates  4.integrity  5pact; Moreover  6.journalism
6. Answer the questions about the words and expressions.
1.b  2.a  3.a  4.b  5.b  6.a  7.a  8.a  9.b
Reading and interpreting
7. Look at the sentences from the passage and choose the best meaning.
1.a  2.a  3.b  4.b  5.a  6.b
Language in use
Word formation
1.Replace the underlined words with compounds made from down and the words in brackets.
1.downtown  2.download  3.downgrade  4.downstairs  5.downmarket  6.downturn
2. Replace the underlined words with phrasal verbs made from the verbs in bracket
s and down.
1.go down  2.turned me down  3.run down  4.stand down  5.got down  6.handed down  7.brought down  8.broke down
3. Rewrite the sentences using by someone + participle.
1.The late-night edition of the paper was bought by a lot of people interested in the results of the match.
2. The princess was followed across the town by photographers determined to get a photo of her.
3. The programme was watched by millions of people hoping to win the star prize.
4. The alarm was set off by tow children startled to hear a noise in the back room.
5. The police were contacted by one of the boys’ mothers worried that he might have got lost.
unfamiliar
6. The front-page headlines were changed by the editor hoping to be the first to break the news.
7. Online editions of the news papers are being read by more and more people not wanting to buy the traditional edition.

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