Discussion Questions

1. Are journals and magazines important in our life? Why?

2. What journals and magazines are popular in Ukraine?

3. What magazines are popular among teenagers? Why?

4. What is your favourite magazine? Why?

5. What magazines are helpful in your study?

6. Do British/American magazines and journals help you to learn English? What are these magazines/journals? In what way do they help you?

7. What magazines are aimed at giving information to business people? Name them. Do you read any of them?

Activity 1. Reading Newspapers

A By yourself

Find an interesting article in a newspaper.

Write out unknown words and expressions and look them up in a dictionary. Think what words or expressions you think are unknown to the students or are difficult to understand from the context. Be ready to present them to the class. Begin like this: Some English words and word-groups to be remembered:…

Prepare a summary of the article using the plan given below. Think of several discussion questions.

Plan of rendering articles

	PLAN	SOME EXPRESSIONS TO BE USED WHILE RENDERING AN ARTICLE
1.	The title of the article.	The title of the article is ... The article under consideration is entitled ... The article is head-lined ... The head-line of the article I have read is ...
2.	The author of the article, where and when it was published.	The author of the article is ... The article is written by ... It is (was) published/printed in ...on the (7^th of May)
3.	The main idea of the article	The main idea The key-note The subject				of the article is ...
		As the title implies ... The contents of the article ...
		The article	is about ... is devoted to ... deals with ... tells of ... touches upon ... reflects the ... depicts the ... presents the general picture of ...
		The purpose The aim	of the article is				to give the reader some information on ... to discuss ... to show ... to provide the reader with some information/data on
4.	Some facts, names, figures.	The author starts by telling the readers about/that ...
		In the opening lines In the very beginning				of the article the author tells about ...
		The author	states stresses emphasizes thinks explains points out demands reports					that…
		The next part of the article is devoted to ... Much attention is given to ... The article describes ... According to the article ...
		Further the author		reports says				that …
				provides the detailed analysis of..
		The article goes on to say that ... At the end of the article ... In conclusion ... The author comes to the conclusion that ... We can draw a conclusion ... In conclusion I have to add ...
5.	Your opinion of the article.	I found the article			interesting important informative unusual sensational scandalous not worth reading too hard to understand
		I am rather impressed by this article because…

B With the whole class

Take turns.

Write down words and expressions presented by the students.

Listen to a summary of each article and to the questions that the other students ask. Give your own opinions and responses.