Can we trust internet media outlets for real information?
Démarrage :
TABC + TD : 27/03/2025
Objectifs de la séquence :
Communicationnels :
Comprendre les informations essentielles et les arguments dans un article. Exprimer une opinion et un point de vue à l’écrit.
Linguistiques :
La fréquence, le present perfect, le comparatif, le superlatif, le contraste, la voix passive, le vocabulaire de presse et des médias.
Phonologiques :
Terminaison en -ate, la prononciation du suffixe –tion,
Culturels :
Traditional press and the internet, internet and the news, the evolution of the news media. Freedom to believe the news we choose. Can fake news reduce our freedom as citizens?
Axe culturel du programme : citizenship and virtual worlds
Evaluation/ Tâche finale = rédaction d’un tweet pour réagir à une citation en lien avec la séquence et l’axe culturel « Citizenship and virtual worlds ».
Séance 1
=> The Times – from print to online edition (document iconographique), Laurens Smak/ Alamy, Didier
=>CO, How do you get your news?
HW : learn Words (on sheet ****) + what news websites do you know?
Séance 2
=> CO, How do you get your news? (suite)
=> The decline of the newspaper industry in the USA
HW: Why should people be careful about which news oultlet they choose?
Séance 3
=>CE/ Why can’t we agree on what’s true anymore?(William Davies, The Guardian, 2019)
HW: Read the text again and try to answer the chapter’s guiding question in your own words + make a list of all traditional American and British news outlets that you know.
Séance 4
=>CE, A Why can’t we agree on what’s true anymore? (suite)
HW: Read the text again + give your opionion in a pretend comment on The Guardian’s website. 120 words.
Séance 5
- Travail collaboratif à partir du HW.
HW : Revise your lesson and link it to the cultural axis « Citizenship and virtual worlds »
Séance 6
=>CO, Journalism and freedom (extract from PBS show, NOW, 2010)
HW : Do you agree with Robert Mc Chesney that the rise of digital media outlets may reduce our personal freedom?+ exercice should/must.
Séance 7
=> CE, Fighting disinformation, Darrel West, brookings.edu, December 2017
HW : HW on the sheet + “A little grammar”…
