In this lesson,
we are going to look at some headlines from some news stories. We are
also going to examine one specific news story and examine the language
used.
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2.- Your
turn…
Answer the
following questions out loud giving as much detail as possible.
Which newspapers
do you read?
Do you
usually read the serious news stories first, or look at the more light-hearted
stories?
Are pictures
important to you in a newspaper? Do they determine which articles
you read first?
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3.- Pre-listening
task
3.1.- Look
at the following pictures and match them to the headlines.
7 hours
of medical blunders led to teenager’s death
Argentine
judge blocks gay marriage
Study reveals
9 out of 10 patients misdiagnosed
US police
shooting suspect killed
Shares
rise as Dubai starts debt talks
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3.2.-
You are going to listen to the following news story.
Before
listening, try to guess what the news story is about.
Study
reveals 9 out of 10 patients misdiagnosed
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4.- Listening
(Video)
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4.1.- Did
you guess correctly? How did your story differ from the actual story?
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4.2.- Fill
in the gaps with the missing words from the listening.
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5.- Spoken response to listening
Answer the
following questions out loud giving as much detail as possible:
How can
the helpline service be improved?
Would you
be happy to call the helpline knowing the problems they have experienced?
What would
you do if you were showing the effects of swine flu?
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6.-
Language Focus – The Passive
Look at the
following sentences:
The doctor
diagnoses the patient
The patient is diagnosed by the doctor.
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6.1.- Can
you identify which verb is active and which is passive?
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6.2.- Who
is the subject of the active sentence? Who is the subject of the passive
sentence?
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7.- Form
The passive
is formed with:
Be
+ past participle
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7.1.- Look
at the tapescript and underline 4 examples of the present perfect passive.
Tapescript
A
recent study of a swine flu helpline shows that as many as 9 out of
10 sick patients phoning the helpline have been misdiagnosed.
In
fact, out of 30 patients, only 3 had actually been infected by the virus.
While 5 people had other life threatening illnesses which had been completely
missed.
Anti-vital
drug Tamiflu had been taken by approximately half of the callers after
contacting the National Pandemic Flu Service.
Researchers
believe the people working in call centres need to be better trained
and the computer programme used to diagnose swine flu improved as it
has wrongly identified too many cases.
Article
adapted from The News of the World 1st December 2009
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7.2.- Use
We use the
passive when we want the main focus of the sentence to be on the action
or the person that is affected by the action.
Often
the person who does the action is not mentioned.
The doer of the action can be introduced by using by after the verb.
e.g. the
computer was fixed by the engineer.
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7.3.- Controlled
Practice
Complete
the sentences with the correct passive form of the verb in brackets.
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8.-
Freer Practice
Report the
following story
US
police shooting suspect killed
The following
phrases may help you:
The
suspect was killed by….
More than five people were injured…
A policeman is being investigated… .
