Unit 1. MASS MEDIA: THE PRESS

Lesson 13. SCHOOL NEWSPAPERS

Цілі: вдосконалювати навички усного мовлення й читання; розвивати мовну здогадку й мовленнєву реакцію учнів; розвивати пам'ять; виховувати зацікавленість у розширенні своїх знань і позитивне ставлення до читання періодичних видань.

Procedure

1. Warm-up

Work in pairs

What’s this?

Cut out some photos from the newspaper of recent news items which are familiar / relevant / of interest to your students. Put the students in pairs. Demonstrate the activity by holding up a picture and doing the following:

Describe what is in the picture (there is...; there are...; a man is talking...; two women are walking.)

Speculate about what the news story could be (it could be.; it must be.; he might be.)

2. Speaking

Do ex. 1, p. 29.

3. Reading

Read the internet page and answer the questions.

1. Did all journalists have special preparation for their profession some years ago?

2. Nowadays what are students taught at journalism departments?

3. How has the situation with journalism training and education changed for the last ten years?

4. Where did the world’s first journalism school appear?

JOURNALISM SCHOOL

A journalism school is a school or department, usually part of an established university, where journalists are trained. An increasingly used term for a journalism department, school or college is “J-School”. Many of the most famous and respected journalists of the past and present had no formal training in journalism, but learned their craft on the job, often starting out as copy boys / copy girls. Today, in many parts of the world it is usual for journalists to first complete university-level training which incorporates both technical skills such as research skills, interviewing technique and shorthand and academic studies in media theory, cultural studies and ethics.

Historically, in the United Kingdom entrants used first to complete a non media-studies related degree course, giving maximum educational breadth, prior to taking a specialist postgraduate pre-entry course. However, this has changed over the last ten years with journalism training and education moving to higher educational institutions. There are now over 60 universities in the UK offering BA (Bachelor of Arts) honours degrees in journalism. Postgraduate courses are more well-established, some of which are either recognised by the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) or the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ).

History

The first program for journalism education was introduced by former Confederate General, Robert E. Lee, during his presidency at Washington and Lee University, in Lexington, Virginia, in the 1860s. Both the Missouri School of

Journalism at the University of Missouri founded by Walter Williams in 1908 and the Ecole Superieure de Journalisme in Paris, France founded in 1899 claim to be the world’s first journalism school. Although Paris’s school opened its doors in 1899 after three years of internal debates, the question was discussed in Missouri since 1895. Since then the journalism school has become standard at most major universities.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

4. Speaking

Discuss the role of mass media in our life.

Use the following pros and cons for discussion.

Pros	Cons
to rest	it’s a waste of time
to relax	to have no time to communicate with
to receive information	relatives and friends
to listen (to read) about famous people	to damage your eyes
important events	to get lazy
to study foreign languages	to put on weight
to take part in shows and competitions	to have no time for sport activities in the fresh air
to travel round the word without wasting money
	to watch films (to read books) for adult
to try your luck	to stop writing letters to your relatives
to study at home	to learn about the bad side of life to get
to keep fit to find new friends	nervous to sleep badly after horror films

5. Speaking

Do ex. 4, p. 32.

6. Summary

Answer the questions.

1. Do you think that reading a newspaper is a good way to improve your English?

2. What kinds of information can you get from the newspaper?

3. Where do you get most of your news?

4. Do you like to keep up with current events?

5. Do you trust the information you get from the news?

6. What different types of newspapers do you read?

7. Do you read newspapers in other languages?

7. Homework

Do ex. 2, p. 30.