Intermediate 9

Video Café

The controversial article

1 Match the words in the box to their meanings below. _________________ on how olive farmers care for their
trees. Her _________________ on the harmful effects of
online article blogger the Olive Fly will be _________________ important for
put up (a blog online) scroll (down) generations to come. Impressive!
a. Move information on a screen so that you can read it. August: Wow. That’s amazing. Go Froggy, go! Ok, we have to
______________________________ _________________ who he is.
b. Papers that we can find on the web.
4 Do you frequently read blog posts or online articles? Have
______________________________
you ever left comments in a blog? What type of information
c. Person who writes for a blog. do you normally read online? Discuss these questions with a
______________________________ partner.
d. Put something online to be accessible for others.
______________________________
5 Write a short blog post about a topic you think is
controversial, then exchange it with a partner and let him/
her write some comments about it.
2 Watch the video and check the information that is TRUE.
a. August and Andrea are talking about their mom’s article. _______________________________________________________
b. Nobody is commenting their mom’s article.
_______________________________________________________
c. Andrea thinks her mom’s work is controversial.
d. MadFly agrees with August and Andrea’s mom. _______________________________________________________
e. Rana and MadFly are youtubers.
f. Andrea says RanaPrince is stubborn. _______________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________
3 Look at this part of the dialogue from the video. After
watching it, try to complete it with the correct words. _______________________________________________________
August: MadFly4U. He says he’s in the _________________.
_______________________________________________________
Maybe he’s near us? Wait. Look at this!
Andrea: Hey, yeah! RanaPrince totally _________________ _______________________________________________________
MadFly’s “_________________ formed opinion”
and “lacking facts”. He said that Ms. Beausoleil’s _______________________________________________________
_________________ on the problem will have an _______________________________________________________
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