Make Your Way 8, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Listen to a market researcher interviewing people in the street to find out about their newspaper reading habits. Listen to the song “A day in the Life” by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Eleven words in the text below are different from what you will hear; replace them with the correct words. Then discuss: What does the song say about the way we react to news and current affairs? Interview 2: “we get the [paper] delivered.” “their tipsters are the best.” Interview 3: “I’m not interested in glorified comics!” Interview 6: “plough my way through all the different sections.” “they’ve had time to get the facts straight!” Interview 7: “an unbiased view” 2 3 3/01 3/02 • As you listen, make notes of which paper each of the seven people read and why. • Then listen again and explain the meaning of the following phrases: I read the news today oh boy about a happy man who made the grade and though the news was rather short well I just had to laugh I saw the photograph He blew his brains out in a car he didn’t notice that the lights had changed a crowd of people stared and stared they’d seen his face before nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords I saw a lm today oh boy the English Army had just gone to war a crowd of people turned away but I just had to look having read the paper I’d love to turn you on Woke up, got out of bed dragged a brush across my head found my way downstairs and drank a cup and looking up I noticed I was late Found my coat and grabbed my hat made the tube in seconds at found my way upstairs and had a smoke and somebody talked and I went into a dream I heard the news today oh boy four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire, and though the holes were fairly small they had to see them all now they know how many holes it takes to ll the Albert Hall I’d love to turn you on 91 6 Unit 6: Read all about it Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv