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YOlUTUBlER
Catarina Chase Aleixo
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Isabel Teixeira
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Pre-reading activities
A. Complete the definition of the word " Youtuber" with the words below.
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Chapter, Celebrity-Tube, the beginning
8th September
The summer holidays have finished and today was the first
day of school. Most of the kids at school didn't want to start
classes again, but I was happy about it because I wanted to go
s back to Mr Atwell's IT1 class - that's all about computers by the
way - it's my favourite subject at school and Mr Atwell's classes
are always interesting. He thinks I'm a good student. "Henry,
you always ask such great questions," he always says. It's true,
I always ask lots of questions!
10 In today's class Mr Atwell set a challenge. He divided the class
into teams and each team has to set up a YouTube channel. The
team that gets the most subscribers by the end of October wins
a trip to the Science Museum. I've never been there, so I'm really
excited about it and REALLY, REALLY, REALLY want to win.
15 There are six teams altogether. My best friend Ashwin - I
call him Ash for short - and I are in a team with a girl called
Audrey. She's really intelligent and she has her own blog, so
that could help us win the competition, I think The only other
team that might beat my team is Anthony
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20 Hardman's team. Anthony is really Vocabulary
good at IT. Last year he made an app I nfo rm at ion Technology
Science Museum
The Science Museum was founded in 1857 and today it is one of the city's major tourist attractions.
The Museum is famous for its collections: aeroplanes,
helicopters, space rockets, medical instruments, engines, etc.
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and sold it in the App Store. Ash said Anthony sold more than
500 copies of his app and used the money he earned to buy a
new laptop! Incredible.
2s Anyway, Ash, Audrey and I have decided to call our channel
Celebrity-Tube. It will be about the celebrities we have met
or seen around London. It was Ash's idea. He has loads of 2
excellent ideas.
"I've seen lots of celebrities in my dad's restaurant," he said.
30 Ash's dad owns an Indian restaurant near Covent
Garden, which is a great place to see celebrities if you are
in London. There are lots of theatres nearby and the actors
go to the restaurant when they finish work Other celebrities
go shopping in Covent Garden, so Ash's dad
35 has met lots of singers, pop bands and Vocabulary
Hollywood actors, too. oads of:lots of
Covent Garden
Covent Garden was a fruit and vegetable m arket in th e past,
but now it is a pop ular shopp ing and tourist site. There you can buy lots of diff erent t hings, have aft ernoon tea in one of the
m any cafes or watch the street per form ers.
th
10 September
So, we've set up our Celebrity-Tube channel on YouTube. My
dad helped us create a YouTube account. My mum said we should
so be careful about the information we put online. She thinks the
Internet can be dangerous for teenagers, so we shouldn't show
people where we live, or tell them our telephone numbers or our
address. She even thinks we shouldn't give our names! I think
she's just afraid of something she doesn't understand. My mum
ss doesn't know anything about computers. My dad is really good
with computers, though. He is a programmer.
The first video took a very long time to make because
Ash, Audrey and I couldn't decide which photos to use.
Ash's dad
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has hundreds of them. Some of the photos are very old so
so we picked the photos of celebrities that kids our age will
recognise.
I wanted to use the photos of actors like George Clooney and
Angelina Jolie , but Audrey said teenagers prefer singers and
pop-stars. I think she wanted to use her One Direction photo so
s5 her face can be in the photos, too. Ash wanted to use pictures
of Bollywood actors - that's like Hollywood but for Indian
actors and films - but Audrey and I voted against that because
we hadn't heard of any of them.
In the end we chose Audrey's photo of One Direction
10 standing in front of Big Ben - of course! - a photo of a singer
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While-reading activities
A. What do you know about the main characters? Write in note form.
B. Read the chapter again. Find the words to complete the word
puzzle.
Across
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Down
5. Anthony bought one with the money he earned.
6. The teams need lots of them to win the challenge.
7. It's Ash's role in the team.
8. Ash's father owns one.
9. It 's a place in London where lots of people go after work.
10. It's the name of the computer programm e used to edit
the video. 9 10
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C. Now write the letters of the coloured boxes t o find out what
Ash received for his birt hday. It 's a pie ce of information you'll
find in chapter 2.
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Chapter2 VouTube channels - online experi•ences
16 th September
A strange thing happened. Somebody left a horrible
comment on our channel. People can be very nasty. It said
Ash was a "rubbish" presenter, that we stole the pictures we
used on
5 our video and that we should be arrested! I can't believe it!
My dad said we shouldn't worry about the comment.
Anyone can see our Yo uTubechannel and that means
sometimes
horrible people will say horrible things and we have to get used
to it if we want to have our channel on the Internet. My mum
10 just said we should shut3 the chan nel down. I don't think so!
"It's just part of being famous. Some people like your work
and other people don't. I'm sooooo amaaaaaazing and people
are jea l o us of my talent!"
He's hilarious! He said it in a funny voice like an actor and
20 then pretended that everyone in the shopping centre wanted
18th September
25 Anthony Hardman and his team's YouTube channel is also about
celebrities in London! What a nightmare!
Mr Atwell said it didn't matter if Vocabulary
the ideas were the same and that "it j3to s hut: ence rrar
makes
celebnew youtube c ama:zmg
and the channel is less than one week old! I don't think we can
compete with his team. Bye-bye Science Museum.8
The other teams have channels about London Museums,
Funny Cat Videos, Ed Sheeran and The Lord of the Rings. I
think
40 it's amazing what other people think is interesting.
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Audrey, Ash and I set up accounts on Twitter and Facebook for
Celebrity-Tube as soon as we got home from school. We posted a
link to our YouTube channel on Facebook and in our first tweet:
I thought the "hashtag" (#) was a bit strange, but Audrey said that's
so what everybody does on Twitter. Audrey and I will be responsible
for our Facebook page and Ash will do our Tweets because he got a
new smartphone for his birthday and can even tweet at school.
Audrey thinks we need to get some real videos of celebrities and
not just make videos in my bedroom showing the pictures we already
ss have. I think she might be right. Ash said there's a film
premiere4 in Leicester Square on Saturday afternoon. We're
going to stand
outside to see if we can interview some of the celebrities and use the
interviews on Celebrity-Tube. I'm going to
meet Ash and Audrey outside the Odeon
Vocabulary
so cinema at 3 dclock. I hope we meet lots j4f il m prem iere: estreia
of famous people. I can't wait! de umfilmeI
ou nced Lester) is a pop ular meeting place and a m ust for tou rists. It is the beating heart of cinem a, with all th e m ajor premieres happ ening
rowd s of fans awaiting the arrival of the stars outside.
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While-reading activities
A. Read the senten ces and mark True (T) or False (F).
Corre ct the false ones.
True False
1. Celeb rity -Tu b e is t he only project about
celebrities in London.
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Chapter 3 The Ups
2 0 th September
The premiere was
amazing! It was for a film
called Divergent starring
s Shailene Woodley. It was a
great experience.
When I met Ash and
Audrey there was almost
nobody there, but the red
10 carpet was already outside
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When the celebrities started arriving Audrey was
responsible for interviewing them. She talked to two people
who were on Britain's got talent three years ago and to a
presenter from the BBC5 • It isn't easy to interview celebrities
when you are only
2s 14! We got lots of great videos of the really famous celebrities
arriving in their cars and when we went to the back of the
cinema we saw Brad Pitt and
Angelina Jolie just walking down Vocabulary
the street. We filmed them and BBC: British Broadcasting
Corporation (TV, R adio and
30 they even waved at us!
nline services)
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We've got lots of videos to upload to Celebrity-Tube now
and the Angelina and Brad one is going to look excellent!
When almost all the celebrities had gone we saw
Anthony and his team. They had arrived lat e and were
35 at the back of the crowd. I don't think they filmed many
2 2 nd September
We've got 5,449 subscribers! When we uploaded all the
40 new videos and posted links on Facebook and Twitter
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While-reading activities
Complete the senten ces with the words below.
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Chapter 4 The downs
25 th September
Cele brity-Tube has had lots of negative comments from
anonymous people. There are also lots of positive comments
about our videos, but it's hard to forget the bad things people
5 say. Most of the bad comments are about Ash. They say he
30 t h September
The comments are getting really bad. They're on Twitter and
15 Facebook, too now. I'm even scared to look at my computer.
st
25 1 October
We haven't done any new videos for Cele brity-Tube. Ash
doesn't want to do them and Audrey is worried that the trolls
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will start sending her horrible messages if she presents the
videos. I don't even care about the competition anymore.
30 This is getting scary. Who is this person sending out all these
horrible messages?
2nd October
I'm starting to wish we had never started Cele brity-Tube. I
was really happy about how successful it was but it's caused
35 so much trouble.
6th October
Ash hasn't been at school since Thursday. He won't
answer his phone or any emails I send him. I called his
house and his mum didn't know he'd missed school.
s5 "Hello Henry, how are you? How was scho ol today?" she
asked me.
"Fine, thank you, Mrs Chandra. Can I speak to Ash? I tried
calling him but he's not answering."
"Oh, yes he lost his telephone a few days ago. You've just
10 seen him at school, haven't you? You and Ashwin have been
talking all day, I'm sure. He's just come home. I'll pass the
telephone to him," she said.
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I didn't know what to say. Where had he been all
day if he wasn't at school with me? Should I tell his
1s mum? Probably not, that would just get him into more
trouble.
"He says he doesn't want to talk to you, Hen ry,"
Mrs Chandra said. "Have you boys fallen out6?"
"No... he's probably just tired.
so We... had a really busy day at Vocabulary
school. Double maths." o fall out: zanga r- se
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7th October
I decided to go to Ash's house early this morning before
school started. We live on Weston St, not very far from City
Hall
s5 I didn't go to the door immediately, I waited until I saw his mum
and dad leave for work and then I knocked on the door.
"What do you want?" Ash said when he opened it.
"I just wanted to see if you were ok," I told him.
"Well, I'm fine. You can go away now."
so "What's wrong? Why are you upset with me?" I stopped
him closing the door with my foot.
"You left me with Mrs Collingdon and you didn't even
defend me."
"She told me to leave the room! What was I supposed to do?"
s5 "You should have told her that it was impossible for me
to send the tweets. I didn't do it!"
"Well, who did send them? You were the only one of us who
used the Twitter account," I said.
"I've lost my phone. I lost it four days ago and that's when
100 the bad tweets started," Ash said. "I told Mrs Collingdon that
I'd lost my phone but she didn't believe me. She said she's
thinking of excluding me from school. Henry, that can't
happen, my dad will be very angry and my mum will be so
disappointed." He started to cry.
105 "Ash, let me come in. We need a plan to find out what
happened to your phone. Maybe somebody stole it, or found
it and that person sent the tweets," I told him.
Cit y Hall
City hall is where t he Mayor of Lond on and
his team work. It is a high -tech building
designed by Norman Foster, the famous
architect behind another London high-tech 1
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While-reading activities
A. Find the tech words in the chapter to match the following
explanations/def initions.
2. To remove something:
3. A person who posts provocati ve or inap prop riate messages
or comments online to upset ot her users and provoke an
answer:
1. People's comments
a. a good idea to tell their
have been quite
t eache r ab out the t
2. Audrey and Henry roll.
think they should b. what was happening on
3. Ash didn't think it was the YouTube channel.
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Chapter 5 Uncovering the truth
8th October
I told my dad what had happened with the tweets and that
Ash had his phone stolen. He says that if we find the phone
we can find the person who sent the
s tweets. My dad suggested two things Vocabulary
we could do to find the phone and rr; o bber: lad rao
a reward:
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20 We said we would meet outside school tomorrow
morning. We're quite scared about it, but excited too
because we want to know who this person is.
9th October
Anthony Hardman stole Ash's phone! He also sent
2s all those horrible tweets and messages to our YouTube
channel!
When we got to school this morning, Anthony was
waiting outside. He told Ash he had "found" his phone
and that he wanted the 250-pound reward.
30 "You stole my phone!" Ash shouted, "And I
bet you sent all those tweets, too..."
I could see that Anthony was starting to get
angry because his face was red and he was starting
to sweat9 • He suddenly moved towards Ash and
35 kicked him in the leg and he was going to start
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The best part for me is that Mr Atwell decided to cancel
so the YouTube competition because of all the trouble
it caused and now the whole class - except Anthony
Hardman of course - is going on the trip to the Science
Museum.
I don't know if we'll continue to upload anything to
ss Celebrity-Tube, we'll see how we feel about it in a few
weeks...
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While-reading activities
A. Order the sentences according to the chapter.
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After-reading activities
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Key
Pre-reading activities
A. a. uploads b. fan c. YouTubed. Museum 3. Houses of Parliament
videos
4. City Hall 5. Covent Garden
B. 1. Leicester Square 2. Science
While-reading
activities
Chapter 3
Chapter, 1. p rem iere 2. red carpet 3. celebrities
A. Henry: 4. presenter 5. waved 6. late; crowd
favour ite 7. subscrib ers 8. winning
subject - IT;
good student;
he asks
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great
(I. 16 ) 3. troll (1. 18) 4 . feed (1. 37)
questions; he
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been to
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