This lesson contains 30 slides, with interactive quizzes and text slides.
Items in this lesson
Lesson 1:
Differences real and fake news
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Today's lesson
Real News vs Fake News/media and young people
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Lessongoals
• Make you more aware of ideas behind real news and fake news
• To understand different types of fake news and its impact
• To become aware of how to read the news and make sure you can get a realistic view on topics
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Fake News
We'll have a look and decide what the goal of the fake news is...
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Fake News
Work in groups, make exercise 10 in book:
Define fake news
have you ever shared fake news?
How do you find out if an news item is reliable
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Quiz
How well can you spot the difference between a fake and real headline?
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create.kahoot.it
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Where do you get most of your information on current affairs from?
The news on TV
Newspapers
News sites such as nu.nl.
Facebook
Instagram
Twitter
TikTok
Other
Slide 8 - Poll
What is your definition of "real news"?
Slide 9 - Open question
What is your definition of "fake news"?
Slide 10 - Open question
learningenglish.voanews.com
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Where would you look for "real" news?
Slide 12 - Mind map
Where could you find "fake" news?
Slide 13 - Mind map
Go online and find an example of real news. Post the link here.
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5:00
Slide 14 - Open question
Go online and find an example of fake news. Post the link here.
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5:00
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Homework
Pair up.
Decide on a topic you'd like to know more about.
For next week, you will both find an article on this topic.
If you can, make sure one is real and the other is fake news.
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Lesson 3:
Composing news articles
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Today's lesson
News lesson 3:
Producing our own news items
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Aims of the project
• Make you more aware of ideas behind real news and fake news
• To understand different types of Fake news and its impact
• To become aware of how to read the news and make sure you can get a realistic view on topics
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Fake News Project
- Lesson series consisting of 4 lessons.
- Aimed at increasing your "media literacy".
- comparing real vs fake news.
- no formal evaluation.
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Assignment
(Homework of two weeks ago)
Find two articles on the same news item, one fake and one real.
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15:00
Done? Let's play a quiz; or try today's wordle; find out how creative you are with letters; read some satire; some more satire; or challenge yourself with another language puzzle.
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Fake vs Real articles
Swap articles with groups across the classroom.
Read the articles you've received.
Decide which is real and which is fake.
Also, write down why you think this.
Question: What clues can you look for to decide whether an article is real or not?
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15:00
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What clues can you look for to decide whether an article is real or not?
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"Final" assignment
In groups of 4, pick a news topic you'd like to write about.
Two people will write a "real" article.
The others will write the "fake" article.
Also, mind the lay out!
Next week we will finish the articles, print them on A3 paper and tell each other about our choices.
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Lesson 4:
Composing news articles
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Today's lesson
News lesson 4:
producing, presenting and
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Aims of the project
• Make you more aware of ideas behind real news and fake news
• To understand different types of Fake news and its impact
• To become aware of how to read the news and make sure you can get a realistic view on topics
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Fake News Project
- Last lessons, we looked at:
- How fake news can emerge.
- What the differences are between fake and real news.
- How to recognise fake news.
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"Final" assignment
In groups of 4, pick a news topic you'd like to write about.
Two people will write a "real" article.
The others will write the "fake" article. It doesn't have to be satire, it just needs some fake elements.
Mind the lay out!
Done? send the articles to me and I will print them.