English Unlimited HTL 3, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

126 Unit 10: In the news 2zv524 Goals understand news stories and react to news tell someone about a news story evaluate options and choose one participate in a discussion and interrupt politely write a letter stating an opinion Local news Do you read a newspaper regularly? Which newspapers do you read and why? Do you read them online or in a print version? What kinds of news stories do you find most interesting? Why? political stories human interest stories crime stories Listen to the headlines of five news stories on a local radio station in North Queensland, Australia. How do you think each story will continue? Listen to the news stories. Were you right? Can you remember the answers to the questions in boxes 1–5? Listen again to check. a LISTENING 1 b a 2 TCD 3/13 TCD 3/14 b VOCABULARY 3 Understanding news stories Match the highlighted expressions with the four categories below. 4 Think of a news story you’ve heard or find one on the internet. Tell the class about it in your own words. Talk for 1–2 minutes. SPEAKING 5 1 Which residents were evacuated from their homes ? How many firefighters were at the scene ? What are police asking motorists to do? 3 What new law has been introduced ? What do you now need if you want to cut down trees? Which organisations oppose the new laws? 2 How many police were involved in the incident ? What did the police officers arrest the boy for ? How many offences was the family charged with ? 4 How many people currently live to 100 in Australia? What population change is predicted to happen? 5 How was the crocodile injured ? Who rescued it? People Emergencies Crime Politics residents evacuated from their homes police law science news business news disaster stories Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv