week 7

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Read Frankenstein (book or online)

Put away your phone

Put your bag on the floor 

Goal: I know how to use the words from lists 35 & 36

recap lists 25-34

keep your book closed

Translate: sight

1. bezienswaardigheid
2. visum
3. onderneming
4. vergezicht

Translate: avalanche

1. vlakte
2. aardbeving
3. gletscher
4. lawine

Translate: pond

Translate: high tide

Write a sentence with
to drain - swamp

lists 35 & 36

Open your book and read through the two lists.

Write down the words you find difficult.

Write a sentence with
forecast - shower

Write a sentence with
violent - suspect

goal: I know how to decide whether news is reliable.

Recap:
What is a scoop?

Recap: news categories?

- International news

- National news

- Local news

--> it's mainly about who views it

A Dutch person watches the NOS in Spain: national news

How to deal with the news:

- Is all news reliable?

- What's a reliable news source? 

- What influences reporting the news?

Is all news reliable?

What's a reliable news source?

What influences reporting the news?

News Literacy is:

In this course news literacy is designed to help students develop critical thinking skills in order to judge the reliability and credibility of information, whether it comes via print, television or the Internet. 

This is a particularly important skill in the Digital Age, as everyone struggles to deal with information overload and the difficulty in determining the authenticity of reports.

Examples of online news sources:

www.cnn.com

www.foxnews.com

www.bbc.com

www.news.sky.com

www.dutchnews.nl

www.nltimes.nl

To do:

• Compare the opening pages of CNN and FOX.
  
• Find three differences in the news provided that you think are important.
  
• Why do you think the two companies present the News differently?
  

(5 mins)

Do you trust the news?

I always trust the news

I usually trust the news

I sometimes trust the news

I never trust the news

how do you check whether
your news is reliable
or not?

How do you find out whether your news is reliable or not?

Verification 

Independence

Accountability

(VIA)

VIA

In your own words: What's verification?

Verification:

the act of verifying something 

(= proving or checking that it exists, or is true or correct):

In your own words: What's indepencende?

Independence:

not subject to control by others

In your own words: what's accountability?

Accountability:

the fact of being responsible for what you do and able to give a satisfactory reason for it

Examples:

• https://www.facebook.com/pluginVNN/
  
• Fact Checker: President Trump made 19,127 false or misleading claims in 1,226 days
  
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/fact-checker-president-trump-made-19127-false-or-misleading-claims-in-1226-days/ar-BB14RCpH
   

Independence
Can a news company really be independent, do you think?

https:

Who is responsible for your news?

1. mainstream media
2. fringe media
3. anonymous sources
4. all of them

Get out your books

Put away your phone

Put your bag on the floor

Goal: I know some English idioms

Idioms

Idiomatic expressions are words or phrases that don’t mean exactly what the separate words say. Their meaning is figurative instead of literal.

What do you think the following idioms mean?

pain in the neck

pain in the neck

very annoying

right up your alley

right up your alley

just the sort of thing you like or know everything about

tick all the right boxes

tick all the right boxes

meet all the criteria

Read the rest of the idioms in exercise 19 and finish the sentences correctly.

Done early?

Can you think of idioms that are the same in Dutch and English?

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