1、B5U1 Reading(para.1)“Reports on the same events contain different or even contradictory information.”How to be a critical news reader?What are the news reports about?The leadDetailed information about the eventBackground or supporting informationNews 1Firefighters put out tower block fireNews 2Deadl
2、y fire in tower block causes serious damageSentence:Sentence:Sentence:Sentence:Sentence:Sentence:The leadDetailed information about the eventBackground or supporting informationNews 1Firefighters put out tower block fireNews 2Deadly fire in tower block causes serious damageSentence:Sentence:Sentence
3、:Sentence:Sentence:Sentence:12-6712-56-7Read the two news reports and finish the following exercises.Complete the table below.P4 A1The number of death could reach 5.Fire engines and ambulances reached the scene within 15 minutes and got the situation under control around 11 p.m.A dropped cigarette e
4、nd on a carpet of the 8th floor started the fire and that the automatic fire alarms did not go off quickly enough to prevent the disaster.Possible answers:Divide the article into three parts and summarize the main idea of each part.Divide the article into three parts and summarize the main idea of e
5、ach part.12-34News reports usually come with differences.Differences between news reports may depend on how and when the news reports are written.Ways to be critical news reader.Journalists may have different priorities.Journalists may approach information they get from research or interviews differ
6、ently.Be critical about the information we recieve and remember not to blindly trust what we have read.How did Lisa feel about the fire accroding to the second news report?How long did it take the firefighters to get the situation under control acrroding to the first news report?About an hour and fi
7、fteen minutes.She felt it was like an awful dream.What may different journalists do when an estimate of a number is given?What should we not do when we come across factual differences in different news reports?We shouldnt rush to the conclusion that one of the news reports gives false information.Th
8、ey may choose to present the minimum,the maximum or something in between their news reports.Different emphasisDifferent details Different background News report 1:rescue effortsNews report 2:deaths and injuriesFactual differences:the numbers of deaths differNews report 1:concernNews report 2:futher
9、investigationAre there of each news report the same?Can you see why they contain different information?What else can lead to the differences of news reports?A journalists cultrual backgroundA journalists personalityA journalistsprofessional levelWitnesses may view things differentlyWhat is the funct
10、ion of the quotation from Lisa Mayer in the second report?“I was about to have a bath but when I heard people screaming and dogs barking.I looked outside and the smoke was choking me.It was like an awful dream.”Add to the authenticity of the news report.DiscriminationHow do you understand it?A commu
11、nity needs news,for the same reason that a man needs eyes.It has to see where it is going.a British writer and journalistWhat else can we do to be critical nwes readers?What else can we do to be critical nwes readers?Read more than headlines.Cultivate your skepticism.Find out who is making the claim.Do more research on the news source.Read coverge in multiple outlets.Watch out for reports that rely on anonymous source.Seperate fact from opinion.
