Let s meet online!
Student s Worksheet
A. Match the words with the definitions:
1. surf a) equipment used to listen to programmes that are broadcast
2. celebrity b) to tell people about a product in a newspaper, magazine, etc.
3. correspondent c) a conversation between a journalist and a celebrity
4. interview d) to spend time on the Internet
5. news e) a publication with stories, articles, photographs,etc.
6. magazine f) a journalist who provides the news from different places
7. paparazzi g) connected to the Internet
8. advertise h) somebody who is very famous
9. online i) photographers who take shocking pictures of famous people
10. radio j) information about recent events
B.Put the words and phrases in the right columns:
headline, reality show, download, agony aunt, website, daily, viewer, newspaper, episode,
advertisement, search engine, forum, crossword, soap opera, commercial, quality paper, weekly,
email, blog, magazine, talk show, issue, game show, article, remote control, link, channel, spam,
satellite dish, monthly, chat room, tabloid, sitcom
The Internet The press Television
C. Name the symbols in the email address:
[e-mail]
(1) (2) (3)
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Teacher s Notes
by B. Skulski
Type of activity: individual work, pair work B.
(follow-up) Give your students 15 minutes to complete
the activity. Check the answers:
Focus: to revise vocabulary from the tenth of
the Gimnazjum Exam topics -  Åšrodki masowego
Answers:
przekazu
The Internet: blog, chat room, download,
email, forum, link, search engine, spam,
Level/age group: gimnazjum, grade 3
website
Time: 45 minutes The press: advertisement, agony aunt,
article, crossword, daily, headline, issue,
Preparation: Copy the worksheet (one per
magazine, monthly, newspaper, tabloid,
quality paper, weekly
student)
Television: channel, commercial, episode,
Lead-in:
game show, reality show, remote control,
Ask the students the following questions: satellite dish, sitcom, soap opera, talk
show, viewer
1. How often do you use the Internet?
2. What do you search for when you use it?
C.
Give your students 5 minutes to complete
3. How often do you read newspapers/
the activity. Check the answers:
magazines?
Answers:
Answers:
1. underscore
1. students answers
2. at
2. students answers
3. dot
3. students answers
Procedure:
Hand out the copies of the worksheet.
Suggested follow-up:
Put the students into pairs (A and B). Student A
watches TV every day, while student B claims it
A.
is a waste of time. Each of the students tries to
Give your students 10 minutes to complete
convince their partner that they are right. Then
the activity. Check the answers:
they swap roles and change the subject (reading
Answers: gossip magazines, downloading pirate files).
1d, 2h, 3f, 4c, 5j, 6e, 7i, 8b, 9g, 10a
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