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This document contains a review of a newspaper unit focusing on fake news. It includes: 1) A matching activity to check understanding of paragraphs in the reading that discussed an example of fake news, how fake news spreads, and motives for creating fake news. 2) Multiple choice questions about details of a fake news story, reasons people believed it, and challenges in controlling fake news. 3) A gap fill activity with vocabulary related to truth, lies, and fake news. The document assessed comprehension of key aspects of the fake news reading through varied activities.

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Newspaper Unit Review Sem1

This document contains a review of a newspaper unit focusing on fake news. It includes: 1) A matching activity to check understanding of paragraphs in the reading that discussed an example of fake news, how fake news spreads, and motives for creating fake news. 2) Multiple choice questions about details of a fake news story, reasons people believed it, and challenges in controlling fake news. 3) A gap fill activity with vocabulary related to truth, lies, and fake news. The document assessed comprehension of key aspects of the fake news reading through varied activities.

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Review Newspaper Unit –S11 2022

Name : Argi
Date : 18 November 2022

A. Check your understanding: matching


1 (E) Paragraph 1 a. Why fake news is hard to stop
2 (F) Paragraph 2 b. How we can try and control fake news
3 (A) Paragraph 3 c. Motives for creating fake news
4 (C) Paragraph 4 d. The financial rewards of fake news
5 (B) Paragraph 5 e. An example of fake news story
6 ( D) Not used f. How a fake news story can grow

B. Check your understanding: Multiple Choice


1. Why did Elgar Welch go to the pizzeria?
a. He was trying to commit robbery
b. He hated all supporters of Hillary Clinton
c. He was working as a private investigator and investigating a crime
d. He had become concerned after reading an untrue news story
2. Why did many people not believe The Washington Post and The New York Times when they
denounced the pizzeria story?
a. They checked the facts and found that the article were incorrect
b. They didn’t trust anybody
c. They thought the newspapers had a political agenda
d. They though the newspapers had not researched the story carefully enough
3. Who is Steven Smith?
a. A local political from Georgia
b. A journalist on the New York Times
c. A member of the US House of Representatives
d. A fictitious person, created to attack the media
4. Which reason for the difficulty of controlling fake news stories is not given in the article?
a. Many people don’t read the mainstream media
b. Online media platforms don’t check stories before publishing them
c. People are sceptical of the mainstream media
d. Fake news stories can easily switch to other websites and platforms if caught
5. Which type of motivation for the creation of fake news is not given?
a. It’s a way of making money from people who pay to read the stories
b. It’s a way of commenting on current affairs
c. It’s a way of attacking your political opponents
d. It’s a form of entertainment
6. How does the author feel about stopping fake news spreading?
a. Cautiously optimistic C. positive
b. Doubtful D. pessimistic

C. Check your vocabulary: gap fill


1. I know you’re lying to me. Just tell me the truth!
2. Let’s play a game. I tell you a fact and you have to tell me whether it’s true or false.
3. After John F Kennedy’s assassination, there were lots of conspiracy theory about who killed
him and why.
4. Many people prefer to wear fake fur instead of clothes made from real animal fur.
5. The newspaper article is of great importance. It denounces human rights abuses all over the
world.
6. She accused him of telling a falsehood .
7. I swear that’s the truth! Are you saying I’m a liar.
8. The website claimed that the government has been lying to us, but it didn’t present much
real evidence.

Claimed conspiracy theory denounces liar


Truth falsehood false fake

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