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Unit 10
Unbelievable news Reading

Warmer
Tell students about an interesting 10 UNBELIEVABLE OBJECTIVES
piece of news you have heard
recently and then ask: What’s NEWS FUNCTIONS:
making a point; introducing news
the most interesting news you’ve GRAMMAR:
received this week? Make it clear reported speech (review); reported
questions and requests
that this could be news from a VOCABULARY:
friend/family or from a newspaper/ sharing news; reporting verbs
TV programme. Ask students to 25 Watch the video and think:
discuss in pairs. is gossiping is always bad?
A B C
25 Get ing
Play the video and discuss the
question with your class.

1 Before students discuss, you
could write the following on the D E
board for them to match with the
photos: newspaper, TV, letter,
online, internet, email, social
media and text message plus
a few extra words: postcard,
magazine, radio and telephone.

2 Students will speak more if REAdING 4 10.01 Read and listen to the magazine article.
they disagree, so you could What are the four main research results about
tell one of each pair to say that 1 Look at the photos. How are these people ‘fake news’?
getting or giving news? Can you think of any
the opinions are advantages, other ways of giving or getting news? 5 Read the text again. Six phrases have been removed.
while their partner says they are 2 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Match these opinions Choose from A–G the phrase which fits each gap (1–6).
There is one extra phrase.
SPEAKING
disadvantages. with the photos in Exercise 1. They can go with A the research results are a little disturbing
more than one photo. Is each one an advantage
or a disadvantage? B unless the research confirms it
3 Make groups of four for pairs to 1 It takes ages. C that they are not taken in by it
compare their answers. 2 You can read what you want, when you want. D assessing whether something is true or not
E because you saw it one place
3 You can share information easily. F showing that it spreads way faster than the truth
4 10.01 Check/clarify: 4 You can trust the information you get. G they touch people’s hopes and fears
trustworthy. 5 You have to be careful what you read and write. 6 SPEAKING Work in pairs and discuss the questions.
6 You can’t always get reception.
SPEAKING
Set a two-minute time limit to SPEAKING With your partner, think of more 1 What most interested/surprised/concerned you in
SPEAKING
encourage students to read the 3 advantages and disadvantages related to the article?
article quickly and focus on gist each of the different ways of sharing news in 2 Do you always believe what people say on social media?
Do you check important information that comes to you
understanding. Exercise 1. Compare with another pair. through social media? How?
1 We start believing something if we 92 3 Should people be worried about ‘fake news’? Why (not)?
read or hear it enough times.
2 Our knowledge is a strong factor in
what we believe or disbelieve. 6 Give students time to think about their answers prior to their discussions.
3 Fake news spreads much more
quickly than real news.
4 Truthful tweets take six times Culture note
longer to spread than fake ones. Twitter is microblogging and social networking service on which users post
5 1 C 2 A 3 F 4 G 5 D 6 B messages known as ‘tweets’. These are short (maximum 280-character)
(extra phrase: E) messages which registered users can read and resend. As of 2021, Twitter has
more than 353 million monthly active users.

Objectives Resources for this unit
All available online
Functions and speaking Making a point; introducing
news Videos Worksheets
Grammar Reported speech (review); reported questions ● Get ing: Is gossiping always bad? ● Grammar and vocabulary: Basic, Standard
and requests ● Grammar video!: Reported questions and and Extension Worksheets
Vocabulary Sharing news; reporting verbs; WordWise: requests ● Project: Fake or real?
Expressions with way ● Vlog: Laughing at yourself ● Communication: Spreading the news
Life Competencies Laughing at yourself Tests ● Grammar presentation: Reported speech
● Unit, extension and skills test 10 ● Literature Worksheets: The Time Machine
● Get ing, Grammar video! and Life
Lessons video Worksheets

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