week 8

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Get out your books

Put away your phone

Put your bag on the floor

goal: I can use the words from Follow Up lists 37 & 38

recap lists 25 - 36

Go ask if this hotel has any ______.

1. guest houses
2. vacancies
3. applications
4. enterprises

There were a lot of _______ due to the heavy rainfall.

1. ponds
2. moist
3. floods
4. wells

Translate: forgery

Translate: ray/beam

Translate: crook

Lists 36 & 37

Crime

Read through the lists

Ask your questions about the words.

to blackmail - to bribe

What is the difference?

to trace - to detect

What is the difference?

shoplifting - to loot

What is the difference?

to rob - to mug

What is the difference?

Write a sentence with
notorious - to use force

Write a sentence with
fraud - fugitive

Get out your books

Put away your phone

Put your bag on the floor

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

Verification 

Independence

Accountability

(VIA)

VIA

Verification:

the act of verifying something 

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

Independence:

not subject to control by others

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
   

Can a news company really be independent, why (not)?

Who is responsible for your news?

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

A good news report/article:

• Fairness and balance
• Accuracy
  
• Attribution
  
• Brevity
  
• Clarity.

Background material: https://www.easymedia.in/5-characteristics-good-news-report/ 

5 characteristics

Attribution = sourcing

- idividual

- organisation

-  anonymous sources

- exceptions: commonly witnessed by many

Examples of news reporting gone wrong

Source: https://listverse.com/2015/02/17/10-glaring-examples-of-news-reporting-gone-wrong/

1.) United Airlines

In September 2008, a reporter for Miami-based Income Securities Advisors found a 2002 article about a financially moribund United Airlines filing for bankruptcy. However, the article itself was undated. As a result, the Google web crawler assigned it the date of the search, giving the impression that a half-dozen-year-old crisis was breaking news. The reporter then relayed the information to Bloomberg, a premier name in finance news, and as soon as the story went up, United Airlines’s stock price nosedived by 75 percent. Traders jettisoned 15 million shares, as the stunned company did its best to disabuse Bloomberg of the disastrous misconception.

2. A Poorly Translated Article Devalued The US Dollar

Guan Xiangdong, a tourism reporter for the China News Service, was tasked with filling in for her finance reporters that were on vacation in May 2005. Attempting to provide various perspectives on how an appreciation of China’s currency, the Renminbi, would affect the local economy, she pulled bits of from various media outlets to form her own collage of facts and opinions.

With lightning-quick reactivity, investors began dumping US dollars and buying everything from Renminbi to rupees in an avalanche of misinformed fervor. Within minutes, $2 billion had exchanged hands.

 

3.) Blindly Reporting A False Accusation Of Child Endangerment

Few crimes rival terrorism in emotional impact and reprehensibility, but wanton child neglect has a way of tapping into a public’s deepest wells of disdain. That’s why when news station KHOU accused Araceli Cisneros of leaving her two defenseless children to swelter in a car on a day measuring in at 32 degrees Celsius (90 °F) while she went to get a haircut, the public was irate. 

The stage for that rage was amplified when controversial show host Nancy Grace branded Cisneros unfit to raise a child, airing heartbreaking cell phone footage of people breaking the glass of the car door to rescue the trapped kids. That would all seem warranted were it not for the complicating detail that the story was an utter crock.

(1/2)

Cisneros was the victim of a dishonest witness looking to create a huge story at an innocent person’s expense. The mother didn’t abandon her offspring to bake like buns in an automotive oven to tend to cosmetic concerns. She’d actually accidentally locked her keys in the car and desperately begged for help. 

The people filmed rescuing her kids had arrived to the scene in response to Cisneros’s please for assistance. The news station would have discovered this reality had it not simply relayed the story without checking it for accuracy.

(2/2)

Get out your books

Put away your phone

Put your bag on the floor

goal: I can write a response which reflects my opinion.

Which linking words can you remember?

Go to page 126 (paragraph E)

• Recap the linking words with the help of 21A

•  Fill in the correct linking words in exercise 21B

which of these do you think is the most important?

Look at the responses to Malcolm_S

Exercise 22B, page 128

Hazeleyes22        10:37

 Okay then. I read a very interesting article about this subject. The article describes students who were evaluated at the beginning and end of the year for their performance in math, reading and writing, and classrooms that were rated on environmental qualities like natural light, acoustics, temperature and colour. The researchers found that classroom architecture and design significantly influenced academic performance. As a matter of fact, according to the researchers most students performed better than they did in ‘regular’ classrooms. So I think it’s worth improving that aspect of education; investing in better teachers or rewarding them is really not that important.

Mellow_man   11:49

 

Get lost! That is a stupid thing to say. Of course these things matter! Researchers say a lot of things but that doesn’t mean it’s the best way to improve our education. I really don’t think it’s up to you to make such an assessment.

Which response is better?

Hazeleyes22

Mellow_man

What can be improved by Hazeleyes22?

What can be improved by Mellow_man?

You are going to write your own response

Look at the post by LuckyLucas (ex. 23, page 130)

- Form your opinion on the logo (take notes)

- Write your response (use your notes)

What can you improve?

- Exchange responses with your neighbour.

- Fill in the evaluation form for your neighbour's response 

(page 131)

- Change back and read your evaluation, 

what are you going to do differently next time?