MASS MEDIA

1. Different types of mass media, pros and cons

2. Press
3. Radio and television
4. Influence of mass media
5. Influence of the Internet
 Comment on the following quotations.

If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed.

If you read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
Author unknown
(commonly attributed to Mark Twain or Thomas Jefferson)

We have more media than ever and more technology

in our lives. It’s supposed to help us communicate,
but it has the opposite effect of isolating us.

Tracy Chapman
Brainstorm the vocabulary connected with the
following subtopics:

MEDIA
 Explain the basic functions of mass media.

 informative
 educational
 entertaining
 advertising
Talk about the types of mass media and their
advantages and disadvantages.
 What radio stations and types of programmes do you
know? Which of them do you listen to? Why?

 Express  news
 Viva  phone-in programmes
 Max  traffic news
 Jemné melódie  pop charts
 Slovenský rozhlas  live broadcasting
 Devín  talk shows
 Lumen  masses
 Europe 2  political debates
 Fun Radio  weather forecasts
 Hey  morning shows

Which of the above programmes can you listen to on the

radio stations listed above?
 Which of these TV programmes can you name? Which of
them do you like watching? Why?
1. 2. 3. 4.

5. 7.
6.

8.
10.
9. 11.

14.
12. 13.
Comment on the negative influence of television in
these pictures.
What types of newspapers and magazines do you know?
Compare them.

Which newspapers and magazines do you read? How

often?
 Match the section of the newspaper with the picture.
1. 2. 3.
 report
 column

 gossip column 5.

 review 4.
5.

 feature article

 obituary

 horoscope
7.
7.
 classified ads 6.

 political commentary

 crosswords

Which of them can you find in tabloids and broadsheets?

Which of them are you interested in?
 What role does the Internet play in people’s life?
What is the Internet used for?

What are your reasons for using the Internet?

 Discuss the following issues.

 the role of mass media

 the influence of mass media

 the future of mass media

 reduction of negative influence of mass media

Design the front page layout of your new school
newspaper. Suggest its name and content. How
would you attract its potential readers?