With your partner, answer these questions.
You’re going to watch a TED talk video about news.
Before you watch, read these sentences and decide if they are True (T) or False (F).
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A. |
Reuters reports on over 3.5 million news stories a year. |
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B. |
Some stories will not matter in the future. |
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C. |
The top story from the past year was about the economy. |
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D. |
The speaker says that stories about the economy will always be important news. |
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E. |
There are over 2 billion hungry people in the world. |
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F. |
GMO crops are essential for some developed countries to survive. |
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G. |
The USA is the world’s biggest car market. |
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H. |
A microbe can wake up after 120,000 years. |
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Now watch the video and check your answers. (Watch until 3:17).
To what extent do you agree with the speaker’s concluding sentence, ‘In the long run, some news stories are more important than others’? Consider the following points: