MATERIALS AND RESOURCES FOR

ESL CLASSROOMS
WEEK 5

Learning Outcome

Discuss the importance of print,

audio, and the Internet in ESL
classrooms.
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Print Media

Print media are lightweight,

portable, disposable publications
printed on paper and circulated as
physical copies in forms we call
books, newspapers, magazines and
newsletters.

Subject – The Dying Milkman

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They hold informative and entertaining

content that is of general or special
interest. They are published either once
or daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly,
bimonthly or quarterly.

Their competitors include electronic,

broadcast and Internet media. Today,
many books, newspapers, magazines
and newsletters publish digital
electronic editions on the Internet.
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Books
Books are the oldest medium of mass
communication.
They are collections of printed pages
bound together.
Their content can be information and/or
entertainment.
Preparation and production of a book
can take many months.
According to Google, there may be 130
million books in circulation.
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Newspapers
Newspapers are collections of printed
pages folded together.
Their content is mostly public affairs
and events information reporting with
some entertainment.
Preparation and production of a
newspaper can take hours.
Tens of thousands of individual
newspapers are published.
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Magazines

Magazines are collections of printed

pages bound together.
Their content includes both
information and entertainment.
Preparation and production of a
magazine can take many weeks.
There are some 20,000 different
magazines.
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Newsletters
Newsletters are regular publications of only
a few folded pages.
Generally, they address one main topic and
are informative or entertaining.
Newsletters provide information to
members, customers, employees and friends
of organizations.
Preparation and production of a newsletter
may require only a few hours.
There are hundreds of thousands of
newsletters.
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News Media
News media are the elements of mass
media that bring us reports of current
events and current affairs information.
They include print media such as
newspapers and magazines, and
electronic and broadcast media such as
radio and television, websites, blogs,
wikis, Facebook pages, Twitter tweets,
and online representations of
traditional news media.
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Journalism
Newspapers began as journals, so the
industry profession came to be called
journalism.
Journalists intend to inform their target
audiences about events, issues and
trends.
The field includes professional specialties
such as photo journalism, science
journalism, magazine journalism,
broadcast journalism, editing, producing
and others.
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YouTube in the Classroom!

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Listening material for the ESL

classroom
Traffic Jam
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