Doomscrolling

1. What can you see in the picture? Describe it as much as possible.

2. How do you think she is feeling? Why could that be?
3. What do you most often do with your phone?
4. Match the words with the definitions:
(fake news, dispatch, digital newspaper, current affairs, feature, the news, front-page)

a. _______: a television or radio programme consisting of reports about recent

events.
b. _______: a digital version of a printed newspaper.

c. _______: false stories that appear to be news, spread on the internet or using
other media, usually created to influence political views or as a joke.

d. _______: serious important news that is considered to be of interest to many

people, either in a particular area or country, or in the world.

e. _______: a newspaper report sent by someone in a foreign country, often

communicating war news, or an official report, often on a military matter.

f. _______: political news about events happening now.

g. _______: this information is so important that it deserves to be printed on the

front page of a newspaper.
5. Here are two pages from Cambridge to check out more interesting and relevant
vocabulary!
Broadcasting: programmes and other broadcasts:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/topics/media-and-publishing/programmes-and-other-bro
adcasts/
News reporting and the press:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/topics/media-and-publishing/the-press-and-news-reporti
ng/

6. Do you stay informed of the current affairs? How do you choose to stay informed?
7. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of staying informed?
8. In your opinion, what are some of the biggest front-page news stories right now?
9. Listen to this episode of a feature radio programme of English vocabulary.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/the-english-we-speak/ep-20102

10. What is doomscrolling? Do you find yourself doomscrolling frequently?

11. What can you do to stay informed without becoming too upset or worried about the
world?