Answers

Section B2: Fake news as fact?

Speaking & Watching
UK national newspapers:
  • The Daily Telegraph
  • The Sunday Telegraph
  • The Times
  • The Sunday Times
  • The Guardian
  • The Observer
  • Financial Times
  • Daily Mail
  • The Mail on Sunday
  • Daily express
  • Sunday express
  • The Sun
  • The Sun on Sunday
  • Daily Mirror
  • Sunday Mirror
  • Sunday People
  • Daily Star
  • Daily star Sunday
  • Morning Star

The papers mentioned in the video and what the Minister thinks:
  • Daily mirror – people who think they run the country
  • The Guardian – people who think they ought to run the country
  • The Times – people who actually do run the country
  • The Daily Mirror – read by the wives of people who run the country
  • Financial times – read by people who own the country
  • Morning star – read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country
  • Daily Telegraph – read by people who think it is (the country run by another country)
Other sources of media: SlantNews, GigaOm Media, Quartz News]

Points to check when a story seems fake:
  • Check at least three other sources.
  • Check the validity of each source – are they reputable journalism companies?
  • Regularly read ‘good’ news sites so that when fake news appears, you can spot it.
 
Reading
The topics in the text:
  • Pupils refuse to believe real news
  • A royal opinion

Words

1 to say that you will not do or accept something refuse
2 to examine the details of something carefully in order to understand or explain it analyse
3 to believe something to be true because it is very likely, although you are not certain presume
4 to make a judgement about the quality, size or value, etc. of something assess
5 to mention something as proof for a theory or as a reason why something has happened cite
6 to make public something bad or dishonest expose
Listening
The picture: Photojournalism in a war zone

The sentences:
  1. = changing
  2. = jobs
  3. = raise your profile
  4. = built-in audience
  5. = screen
  6. = box
  7. = skillset
  8. = photos

Answer about photojournalism:
[Students own answers but obviously photoshop is one way to ‘create’ a photo.
Maybe if they can’t get the real picture, but they know that it will sell.
Probably not – as it’s a lie] .