Tuesday, 18 February 2020

1.4.- Reading and use of English part 1: 'Should media earn money from content they don't own?'

Video about what media is.

What expressions with the word media appeared in the video?
Print media


What is Media? 

According to the Cambridge dictionary online, media is the internet, newspapers, magazines, television, etc., considered as a group.

The local media

Media attention

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/media


Collocation.- According to the Cambridge dictionary online, a collocation is the combination of words formed when two or more words are often used together in a way that sounds correct, for example,  the phrase "a hard frost" is a collocation.

 

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/collocation


Types of words for collocations in accordance to the parts of speech.


Collocations with the word “media”

ADJECTIVE + MEDIA

The event was widely covered by the mass media.

Their PR officer handles TV, radio, and print media interviews.

They broadcast streaming media to PCs.

 

VERB + THE MEDIA

accuse, blame, criticize

Some blame the media for propagating negative stereotypes.

There is a perception that the government controls the media.

One story has dominated the media this week.

 

MEDIA + VERB

The local media reported rioting across the country.

I think the media picked up on the story because she's a woman.

They believe that the media is biased against them.

 

MEDIA + NOUN

There was a lot of media coverage of the wedding.

Music has been turned into a series of media events.

The company is anxious to play down the media hype.

She's very different from her media image.

The two gangsters were media darlings in the 60s.

 

PREPOSITION + THE MEDIA

propaganda through the media

 

PHRASES

▪access to the media

▪the role of the media

 

https://collocations.enacademic.com/11130/media

 

Collaborative activity about collocations on page 11 on  wordwall

https://wordwall.net/es/resource/31922094/identify-what-the-wrong-collocation-is


Collaborative exercise 2 on page 12

 

Individual online exercise about collocations

https://speakspeak.com/english-grammar-exercises/intermediate/intermediate-grammar-exercise-collocations

Parts of the reading section when applying for the official CAE certification exam



Exam task on page 12




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