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R e a d i n g➥ Student’s Book pages 54–55

� Refer students to the photo and the title of the text. Elicitthe meaning of the word paparazzi. Students read thequestions and discuss the answers in pairs. Check someanswers with the whole class.

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Students’ own answers.

� Tell students to read the text once for general meaning,then read the questions. They should then read the textmore carefully to find the answers to the questions.

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1 He moved quickly because he didn’t want negativeheadlines about Elton to appear in the newspapers.

2 Celebrities think they’re a real problem (a ‘plague’).3 They now have very small digital cameras so they can

take high quality photos secretly.4 She said a reporter had tried to interview her son.5 A photo can increase a magazine’s circulation.6 They shop at Kitson because there are always paparazzi

outside.

� Tell students they need to read the summaries and text verycarefully to choose the best summary.

Answer

b

Vocabulary:

The media, negative prefixes

Grammar:

Reported speech: reported statements, reported questions

Writing:

A celebrity interview

Culture:

Journalism

U n i t a i m s � Students find words in the text to match thedefinitions.

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1 rude 4 provoke2 faithful 5 demand3 fight 6 lifelong

Extra vocabulary

Ask students to find words in the text with thesemeanings:

1 extremely angry (paragraph 1)

2 good and well-behaved (paragraph 2)

3 able to be seen (paragraph 3)

4 informal talk about people’s personal lives

(paragraph 4)

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1 furious 2 respectable 3 visible 4 gossip

Vo c a b u l a r y T h e m e d i a� Refer students to the pictures. Students match the

words with the pictures. Check answers, checkunderstanding of the words and model thepronunciations.

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a camera manb sound engineerc reporterd microphonee celebrity

� Students match the words with the definitions. Checkanswers, check understanding of the words and modelthe pronunciations.

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1 media 5 headline2 scoop 6 publicist3 circulation 7 editor4 journalist 8 camera crew

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R e p o r t e d s p e e c h� Refer students to the photo. Students answer the

questions in pairs.

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� Refer students to the dialogue. Students read the dialogueand answer the question.

Answer

Lorna is a reporter and Mike is the (new) photographer.

� Read the task with the class and make sure that studentsunderstand the terms reported question and reported

statement. Students find examples in the dialogue.

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reported question: I asked her why she was here …reported statement: … she told me she was acting in

Macbeth at the Liverpool Vic theatre.

R e p o r t e d s t a t e m e n t s� Read with the class the example of the reported statement

from exercise 3:She told me she was acting in Macbeth.

Ask: What did Tracy Wilde actually say?

Elicit the sentence that Tracy Wilde would have spoken:I’m acting in Macbeth.

Elicit that the tense has changed in the reportedstatement. Students answer the questions about reportedspeech. Check answers with the class and elicit examplesof how pronouns and possessive adjectives change, howtime expressions change, etc.

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1 present continuous > past continuouspast simple > past perfectpresent perfect > past perfectwill > would

2 pronouns, possessive adjectives3 They sometimes change, e.g. today > that day4 No5 Yes6 We must use a direct object, e.g. someone’s name or

a pronoun.

Extra vocabulary

To practise the new vocabulary, dictate these sentences,or write them on the board. Ask students to completethem using the words from exercises 5 and 6.

1 Tom Cruise gave a quick interview to a ___________

when he arrived at the airport.

2 Victoria Beckham is a well-known ___________ .

3 Journalists write articles, but the ___________ decides

whether they will be published or not.

4 The newspaper is trying to increase its ___________ .

5 Journalists try to think of good ___________ for their

articles to encourage people to read them.

6 News reporters usually try to talk to people while the

___________ film what is happening.

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1 reporter 4 circulation2 celebrity 5 headlines3 editor 6 camera crew

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Read the questions with the class and elicit some possibleanswers. Write some advantages and disadvantages ofbeing famous on the board, e.g.

advantages disadvantages

you’re rich you’re never free from the

media

you have a glamorous you can’t have a normal life

lifestyle

you meet other celebrities you have no privacy

Students discuss the questions in pairs.

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� Read the task with the class and do the first example withthe whole class, if necessary. Remind students that we useShe said that … not She said me that ….

Students rewrite the statements as reported speech.

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1 Lorna said (that) she was writing for their schoolmagazine.

2 Lorna said (that) she had had an interview with theactress Tracey Wilde.

3 Mike said (that) she was a great actress.4 Lorna said (that) they had had a magazine since 2005.5 Lorna said (that) she’d got two tickets for Macbeth.6 Lorna said (that) they would meet at the theatre at

seven o’clock.

R e p o r t e d q u e s t i o n s� Read the task with the class. Students look at the reported

questions and compare them to the direct questions in thedialogue. They answer the questions.

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1 c 2 a, b

� Students look at the reported questions in exercise 6 andchoose the correct answers to complete the rules.

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A statement E changesB do not use F changesC can G canD disappears from

Tell students to use the rules in exercise 7 to help themchoose the correct answers. Tell them they must read thereported questions very carefully, because the differencesbetween the right and wrong answers are quite small.

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1 b 2 a 3 b 4 a

Students rewrite the direct questions as reportedquestions. Tell students to think carefully about the verbtenses and word order.

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1 The reporter asked Elton John when he would leavethe country.

2 Lorna asked Tracey Wilde if / whether she had been toLiverpool before.

3 The teacher asked us where our homework was.4 Mike asked Lorna if / whether he could send her the

photos by email.5 Tracey Wilde asked the reporters if / whether they had

any questions.6 Mike asked Lorna when she would publish his photos.

C o n s o l i d a t i o n� Refer students to the article and elicit or explain that it

contains a lot of examples of reported statements andquestions. Students read the article and choose the correctanswers.

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1 her 8 were getting2 she was 9 the year after3 had started 10 was4 the week before 11 her first acting job had been5 asked 12 had appeared6 was going 13 had changed7 she had 14 thanked

� Students list the reporting verbs used in the interview.

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asked, explained, answered, replied, added

Extra punctuation

Before students do exercise 12, revise the punctuationused in direct speech. Write these sentences on the boardand ask students to add capital letters and the correctpunctuation.

1 hello he said

2 where are you going he asked

3 she replied to Madrid

4 its a lovely day she said

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1 ‘Hello,’ he said.2 ‘Where are you going?’ he asked.3 She replied, ‘To Madrid.’4 ‘It’s a lovely day,’ she said.

Read the task and the example with the class. Point outthe punctuation used in direct speech. If necessary, do anexample answer with the whole class before studentscomplete the exercise individually.

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Tracey Wilde explained, ‘I started acting in Macbeth at theVic theatre last week.’

Lorna asked, ‘What are you going to do after the play?’Tracey Wilde answered, ‘I’m going to make a film in

Hollywood with Orlando Flume.’Lorna asked, ‘Do you have a special friendship with

Orlando Flume?’Tracey replied, ‘We’re getting married next year, and the

school magazine is the first to know!’Lorna asked, ‘What was your first acting job?’Tracey answered, ‘I appeared in a TV advertisement for

chocolate.’ Tracey added, ‘My acting career changed from TV

advertisements to Hollywood films very quickly!’Lorna said, ‘Thank you for the interview and good luck for

the future.’

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C o m m u n i c a t i o n➥ Student’s Book pages 58–59

Vo c a b u l a r y N e g a t i v e p r e f i x e s� Refer students to the adjectives in the box. Students match

the adjectives with the definitions. Allow students to usetheir dictionaries, if necessary. Students listen and checktheir answers.

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1 logical 6 aware2 biased 7 important3 balanced 8 moral4 literate 9 satisfied5 appropriate 10 legal

� Students use their dictionaries, if necessary, and completethe table with the negative adjectives. Check answers andpoint out that adjectives beginning with l- use the prefix il-and adjectives beginning with m- use the prefix im-.Explain that, for other adjectives, students must simplylearn which prefix goes with each adjective.

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il-: illegal, illogical, illiterateun- : unaware, unbalanced, unbiased, unimportantdis- : dissatisfiedim- : immoralin- : inappropriate

� Make sure that students understand that some of theadjectives in the sentences are positive and that some arenegative. Students complete the sentences.

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1 inappropriate 6 illegal2 satisfied 7 balanced3 immoral 8 important4 biased 9 aware5 illiterate 10 logical

Extra activity

Tell students to write three questions using the positiveadjectives from exercise 1. Explain that their partner mustbe able to give a negative answer to the questions.

Write some examples on the board, e.g. Was the referee biased?

Is it legal to drive when you’re sixteen?

With books closed, students ask their partner theirquestions, and their partner must answer using the correctnegative adjective, e.g.Was the referee biased? No, he was unbiased.

Is it legal to drive when you’re sixteen? No, it’s illegal.

Check some answers with the whole class.

L i s t e n i n g I n t h e n e w s� Ask students if they watch the news on television. Elicit

some topics that are discussed in a news programme.Students make a list.

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� Explain to students that they’re going to listen to atalk about the news. Read through the questions with theclass and make sure students understand everything.Students listen and then answer the questions. Studentslisten again to check their answers.

TAPESCRIPT

When we watch, listen to or read the news, we thinkthat the information we receive is a true reflection ofwhat is happening in the world. Yes, we all know thatalthough the media organisations claim to be fair, it isclear that they’re all biased towards one political partyor another. But apart from that, nothing else affects thenews, does it?

Unfortunately, the answer is ‘Yes, it does’. There area number of other things that we should monitor.Firstly, most of the money the media makes is fromadvertising. That means scandals involving advertisersare not going to be reported by the mediaorganisations that receive the advertisers’ money!Furthermore, today, there are few independentnewspapers, online publications, radio or TV channels.They’re all part of big multimedia groups. So, afantastic review about a new pop group in a newspapermight not be unbiased, simply because the samemedia group owns both the newspaper and the recordlabel the group sings for. Of course, we, the readers,are totally unaware of these business connections innewspaper or magazine articles. Are these kinds ofhidden promotions illegal? No, but I think it’s dishonestand immoral.

Apart from political and commercial pressures, wealso have to consider technology. The inhabitants ofthe first world are technologically advanced, and whensomething happens in a first-world country it is almostinstantly photographed or filmed, and for most of themedia, if there aren’t pictures, a story doesn’t exist.This means that the international news we receive isimbalanced, with many important stories from aroundthe world being ignored, simply because there isn’t adramatic image to accompany them.


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Another trend that is affecting news in the media isinfotainment. News about politics, the economy andinternational news is gradually being replaced byinfotainment, in other words, news about the cinema,celebrities, lifestyle and sport. In recent years, TVcompanies have reduced the amount of time theydedicate to hard news and increased the space givento human interest features. We now also have freenewspapers where there is hardly any real news at all.In fact, they seem to think most of their readers arenearly illiterate, as there is hardly any text either! Thisbrings me on to my final question: ‘What is the futureof news in the media? Will the internet …’

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1 advertisers, politics, the media’s business interests2 a 3 b 4 c 5 a

� Tell students to read the sentences and the words in thebox before they listen again and complete the sentences.

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1 unbiased 4 free newspapers2 independent publications 5 Hard news3 technologically advanced 6 Infotainment

Extra listening

Write these sentences on the board. Students listenagain and complete them with the correct adjectives.

1 They’re all _________ towards one political party or

another.

2 There are few _________ newspapers.

3 The readers are totally _________ of these business

connections.

4 The inhabitants of the first world are technologically

_________ .

5 They seem to think most of their readers are nearly

_________ .

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1 biased 4 advanced2 independent 5 illiterate3 unaware

S p e a k i n g L i k e s a n d d i s l i k e s� Refer students to the dialogue and explain that the two

people are discussing newspapers. Students read thedialogue and answer the question.

Answer

Sudoku (puzzles), football news (sport), financial news,society pages

� Students complete the dialogue with the words, thenlisten and check their answers.

TAPESCRIPT

Sam Are you doing the sudoku?Julia No, I’m checking yesterday’s sudoku answer.

It’s the first thing I look at in the newspaper.Sam Oh, I can’t stand sudoku. Julia You mean you can’t do them!Sam No, I mean they’re a real pain! I hate numbers! Julia OK, so what do you look at first in a newspaper?Sam The football news, of course! Julia Football! I’m sick of football! Sam Well, it doesn’t get on my nerves like sudoku!

So, what do you look at after the sudoku? Thefinancial news?

Julia Er, no. I enjoy reading the society pages.Sam The society pages? They’re just full of gossip!

I’m sure you get a lot out of that!Julia Well, it helps me to unwind. Is it worse than

football?Sam No, I have to agree with you, it isn’t! Look,

we’ve agreed on something!

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1 stand 2 pain 3 hate 4 sick 5 get 6 enjoy7 lot 8 helps

� Explain to students that they must complete the tableaccording to the meaning of the expressions. Check answers.

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Positive: to be keen on, enjoy, like, love, to be fond ofNeutral: don’t mindNegative: can’t stand, dislike, hate, to be sick of

� Students match the idioms with the definitions, using theirdictionaries, if necessary.

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1 c 2 d 3 b 4 a

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A c e l e b r i t y i n t e r v i e w A s k i n gq u e s t i o n s� Refer students to the text and the picture, and elicit that

the text is an interview with a famous person. Studentsread the questions and answer the question.

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1 singer 2 actor 3 all three 4 writer

� Point out that there are different types of questions inexercise 1. Students match the question types with thequestions in exercise 1.

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a 4 b 1, 3 c 2

� Students read the interview and identify the questiontypes used.

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indirect: … can you tell our readers … , Is it true that youmet … , Could you tell us what you think …

standard: … did you teach yourself how to …question tag: You think the internet’s a good thing, don’t

you?

� Students read the interview again and decide if thesentences are true or false.

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1 True 2 False 3 False 4 True 5 True

Extra activity

To revise the forms of the different types of questions,dictate these questions, or write them on the board, andask students to correct the mistakes in them.

1 Can you tell me where do you live?

2 You’ve been an actor for ten years, didn’t you?

3 Is it true that did you start playing the guitar when you

were five?

4 You don’t like travelling, don’t you?

5 You had singing lessons when you were young, don’t you?

6 Can you explain why did you leave the group?

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1 Can you tell me where you live?2 You’ve been an actor for ten years, haven’t you?3 Is it true that you started playing the guitar when you

were five?4 You don’t like travelling, do you?5 You had singing lessons where you were young, didn’t

you?6 Can you explain why you left the group?

Wr i t i n gExtra activity

To practise the new expressions, write these sentences on the board and ask students to correct the mistakes.

1 I can’t stand play football.

2 Films helps me unwind.

3 I find swim relaxing.

4 I’m keen of reading.

5 I benefit of reading.

Check answers and point out that with the idioms inexercise 10, the verb changes when the subject is plural.

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1 I can’t stand playing football.2 Films help me unwind.3 I find swimming relaxing.4 I’m keen on reading.5 I benefit from reading.

� Students work individually and prepare a lists of things andpeople they like and dislike. Check some answers with thewhole class.

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� Read through the task with the class. Explain to studentsthat they’re going to compare their lists in pairs, and theymust use the expressions from exercises 9 and 10. Allowstudents time to look back at the expressions and thinkabout which ones they’re going to use.

Students discuss their likes and dislikes in pairs.

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C u l t u r e f o c u s� Explain to students that they’re going to write a magazine

interview. Read the task with the class. Students workindividually and make notes. Check some answers with theclass and write good ideas and useful vocabulary on theboard.

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� Read the task and the reminders with the class.

Students can write the interview in class or as homework.

Model answer

Instant success

This week’s interview is with Julia Mason, the Hollywood

actress and star of films such as The Long Voyage and TheParty.

Julia, can you tell me when you first decided that you

wanted to be an actress?

Well, I think I’ve been acting ever since I began to speak. At

school I was always in the school plays, and at home I used

to put on little shows for my family and friends.

And then you went to drama school, didn’t you?

Yes, I was very lucky because I managed to get a place at

RADA, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, in London.

That was a wonderful experience, and I met lots of very

interesting and talented people.

Is it true that The Long Voyage was your first film?

Yes, it was amazing, really. I was only eighteen, and I never

thought I would actually get the part. But it was a really

good film to work on, and I got a lot out of it. I never

thought that it would be such a huge success.

And how does it feel to be a celebrity now?

Well, it’s quite strange that two years ago I was just an

ordinary drama student, and now people recognise me in

the street. I’m enjoying it at the moment, but I suppose that

one day I might get sick of it.

Do you think the cinema is still important?

Well, that’s a good question. More and more people have

big TV screens in their homes now, and it’s true that fewer

people go to the cinema now. But I still love the experience

of going to the cinema, so I hope it will continue for many

more years.

Well, thanks very much, Julia. It’s been a pleasure talking to

you.

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J o u r n a l i s m� Refer students to the title of the text and elicit that the

topic is school publications. Read the task with the class,then students discuss their ideas in pairs.

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� Students read the text to see what types of schoolpublication are mentioned.

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a newspaper or magazine, a blog

� Remind students that to answer this type of question, theyshould scan the text to find the numbers, then read thatpart of the text very carefully to find the answers. Warnthem that some of the numbers are written as words in thetext.

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a 40% of blogs are about music and bands.b 52% of all blogs belong to thirteen to nineteen-year-

olds.c 75% of newspaper editors look for experience of

working on a school publication.d 15 or 16 is the age at which you should start working

as a journalist if you want a career in journalism.

� Students read the text again and decide whether thesentences are true or false. Remind students that theymust give evidence from the text to support their answers.

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1 True – Many young journalists who get the best mediajobs start their careers working on school publications.

2 True (in part) – They have become a popularalternative to traditional journalism, but they haven’treplaced it completely.

3 True – Most people use blogs to talk about theirpersonal lives.

4 True – Traditional skills such as choosing interestingmaterial and being able to write well are stillimportant.

5 False – You should be able to prove that people read it.6 True – Teamwork is part of the real working

environment of a media organisation.


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/I/ o r /i:/� Students copy the pairs of words into their

notebooks. Explain that they will hear the /I/ or /i:/ sound.Play the CD. Students listen and circle the word they hear.

Check answers with the class, choosing students in turn towrite the correct word on the board.

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1 we’ll 2 fill 3 leave 4 it 5 hill 6 been 7 cheap

� Students read the words in the box. They circle the /I/words in red and the /i:/ words in blue. As they’re doingthis, write the words on the board.

� When they have finished, elicit the answers as a class,and then listen and check.

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/I/: inappropriate, illiterate, dissatisfied, unimportant,interesting

/i:/: illegal, unequal, pleased

I n t o n a t i o n L i k e s a n d d i s l i k e s� Play the CD. Students listen to the intonation

patterns modelled. Demonstrate how what they hearcorresponds to the arrows on the page.

� Play the CD. Students listen to the five Da Daintonation patterns and write the item number from theCD next to the corresponding sentence.

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a I like pop music. 3b I’m sick of football. 2c I can’t stand tennis. 5d I enjoy reading. 1e I don’t mind dancing. 4

Extra vocabulary

Students find words in the text with these meanings:

1 possibilities (paragraph 1)

2 excitement and interest in something (paragraph 2)

3 to show (paragraph 3)

4 to give an idea of what something is like (paragraph 4)

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1 opportunities 3 demonstrate2 enthusiasm 4 reflect

Refer students to the questions and tell them that theymust give reasons for their answers. Students ask andanswer the questions in pairs.

Extra discussion

Have you got your own blog?If you started a blog, what would you write about?

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