LANGUAGE SKILLS 2 / LISTENING

WEEK 4: Media, Advertisement and Propaganda

Task 1
You will listen to a recording on citizen journalism. Choose correct answers. Remember, selecting a single answer
will not always do. You will listen to the recording twice.

1) Who are citizen journalists?

a) laymen b) beginning journalists c) retired professionals d) undergraduates

2) What means are they said to use?

a) social networks exclusively b) radio programs c) TV d) none of these options is correct

3) Who is the greatest internet user?

a) the USA b) China c) South Korea d) the UK

4) The term democratization has to do with

a) equal information accessibility b) the freedom of speech c) Google d) the fall of undemocratic regimes

5) High quality blogs will become as popular as

a) media companies b) traditional broadcasters c) newspapers d) city information centers

6) Which of the following was not among the groups behind Wikileaks
a) The Guardian b) New York Times c) Time Magazine d) Der Spiegel

7) What is not the role of traditional journalists?

a) to find and verify sources
b) to make sense of data
c) to be a mediator and analyzer
d) to keep quality standards

8) The main problem with citizen journalism is that it

a) has not been tested b) might be unreliable c) is often biased d) lacks professional quality

9) To support someone can in other words be said to

a) support his/her opinion in public b) stand on his/her side c) provide financial back up d) inform the person

10) What is internet penetration?

a) the overall number of citizens online
b) internet availability
c) the ratio of internet users to the actual population
d) uncensored internet

Task 2
Listen recording 2 and decide whether the following questions are true (T) or false (F). If false, correct them. You
will listen to the recording twice.

1) Social networks have experienced a tremendous growth in the last year.

2) The way of sharing links and keeping in touch with people is both easy and entertaining.
3) At the time of speaking, safety concerns had already been successfully refuted.
4) The research was carried out on the sample of 600 000 000 computers in the USA.
5) Speaking of fraudsters, Facebook is more attractive than Twitter.
6) These online thieves do not use impersonation.
7) Phishing is a method of obtaining other people´s personal information by means of messages sent by supposedly
familiar people
8) Phishing was on the rise at the time of speaking.

Task 3
Watch a video (0:00-12:17) on globalization and answer the following open ended questions. You will watch the
video twice.

1) What is the main point being made?

2) Where does the broadcaster meeting take place?

3) What is the difference between BBC and CNN? What is their common ground?

4) What do those journalists who do not want to be manipulated by their employers do?

5) Which is the biggest British commercial broadcaster?

6) Why did a group of free journalists block the building of Shell Company?

7) What is the traditional tool of globalization activists? Who is it used against and why?

8) Media do not always deliver a true picture of demonstrations. How was this one-sidedness evidenced in the video?

9) What is the strongest challenge to the media monopolies?

Task 4
 Vocabulary

biased –
fraud –
hotbed –
impersonate –
laymen -
refute –
vigilant –