Free English Class! Topic: The News! πŸ“°πŸ“»πŸ“Ί (Lesson Only)

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Well, hello and welcome to this
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English lesson about the news.
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People are curious.
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We want to know what's going on in the world.
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We want to know what's going on in our town or city.
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We like to hear what people are doing.
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So the news is something that has
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been around for a very long time.
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I myself like to read the local newspaper.
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I like to read Google news.
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I like to listen to the news on
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the radio when I'm driving to work.
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So I certainly like the news, and I'm
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sure many of you do as well.
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So in this English lesson, I'll teach you some words and
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phrases that you'll need to know to be able to talk
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about the news if you're having a conversation about it.
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So once again, welcome to this
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English lesson about the news.
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So if you like the news, you
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probably have a preferred news source.
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Your news source is the place
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where you get your news from.
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And we do use the verb get to talk about news.
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Where do you get your news from?
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I like to watch tv news. I like the newspaper.
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I like radio, or I like the Internet.
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And when we talk about Internet, we also
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might be talking about a news app.
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You might have a news app on your
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phone that you use to get the news.
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So your news source would be the
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place where you get your news from.
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For me, it used to be the tv that
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used to be the news source that I preferred.
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But I have not watched tv news for a couple years.
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I usually get my news from the Internet now, which might
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not be the most reliable place to get news from.
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But I do like opening up Google
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News and I will read that.
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I also will listen to the news
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on the radio and at school.
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We still get a newspaper.
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So I will still readde some parts of the newspaper.
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I don't read the whole newspaper, but so
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my main source would be the Internet.
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And then radio and newspaper would be the next
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two sources where I get my news from to
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see what's happening in the world around me.
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And then here we go.
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So we have tv news.
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When someone refers to news, they often
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say where they got it from.
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So they'll say, oh, I like to watch tv news.
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That would be the way I would describe it.
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This is a pretty old picture, by the way.
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I think the presidents have changed a couple
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of times in the United States since then.
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And then you will also have
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what are called news networks.
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So as we talk about tv news, I'll give you some
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words and phrases to be able to talk about that.
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A news network would be something like the BBC.
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That's probably a very familiar network to many
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of you around the world, by the way,
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the BBC doesn't just have news.
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They also help people learn English.
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So if you ever do a search for
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BBC learning English, you'll find some in Canada.
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By the way, CNN is an american news network.
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In Canada, we have something called the CBC.
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The CBC News would be the news network.
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I don't mind watching the CBC.
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That's the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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If you're wondering.
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It's similar to the BBC.
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You know, Canada and Britain,
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it's kind of similar sometimes.
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So we have CBC, they have BBC.
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Someone who goes on camera to tell you
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about the news is called a reporter, or
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we might call them a tv journalist.
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So a couple of different names there.
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But you'll see this person is
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out probably covering a story.
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That's how we would refer to that.
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Something's probably happening in this location.
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And so the reporter is there
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and they are telling the story.
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They are reporting on the news.
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So either reporter or tv journalist, when you see
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people sitting at a desk when you're watching tv
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news, we usually call them an anchor.
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Sometimes there's one, sometimes there's two.
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We would call these people news anchors.
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I'm not sure why, if, you know, an
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anchor is actually something that you put in
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the water to stop a boat from moving.
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But we also use this word to talk about
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someone who is kind of the main person, the
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news anchor for that tv station's news show.
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We would call them a news anchor or just anchor. So.
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And I think there's a funny movie called Anchormande.
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I'm not, I think that's the
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name of it with Will Ferrell.
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I can't recommend it.
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I'm not sure if you're into that kind of humor.
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It's pretty strange, but it is based on a
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funny, humorous look at the world of news.
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So often there will be something happening in
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the world, and a news network will send
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a journalist or reporter to that area, and
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then we usually call that person a correspondent.
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So if someone is covering something that's
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happening in the world, maybe there's a
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natural disaster, maybe there's a tsunami.
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They might send a news correspondent.
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That's someone who moves to that country
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temporarily to report on what's happening there.
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So we have war correspondents who report on war.
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You might have just a correspondent reporting
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on a natural disaster or something interesting
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that's happening in the, that country.
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So it, it's still just a reporter or
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tv journalist, but we would also call them
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a correspondent, someone who, if you know the
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verb corresponds, like they send information to you.
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We also have the person who operates the camera.
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Back here, we had a person in the foreground.
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There's a new word for you, maybe operating the camera.
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And we call that person a camera operator,
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a camera person, maybe cameraman or camera woman.
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But in my research, I think the most common
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term right now is camera person or camera operator.
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A person who knows how to use a very
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expensive camera to create really good images of the
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reporter who is reporting on the news.
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I've used the verb to cover a few times as well.
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I don't have that in my listen.
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But a camera operator and camera person and
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tv journalists will go to cover the news.
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They'll go to report on the news to
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let all of us know what is happening.
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So when you refer to what they're talking about, we usually
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call it a news story or a segment or a report.
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So the anchor might say, let's
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go to our correspondent, Joe Italy.
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He's going to report on the
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beautiful weather that's happening right now.
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And it will be a new
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story about beautiful weather in Italy.
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It will be a news segment about
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the beautiful weather or a report.
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They're kind of interchangeable.
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A report is usually a little more serious.
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A story or segment just talks
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about one thing for a bit.
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But you would hear all of these
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terms when you are watching tv news.
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You might say, okay.
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Or you might hear the anchor say, we're going to go
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now to a report from Joe, or we're going to update
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you in the next segment about the weather in Canada.
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Or here's a news story about how
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everyone should come and visit Canada someday.
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I don't know if there's news stories like that.
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And then the place where the anchor works, and
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we would also call these people reporters or tv
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journalists, is usually called the newsroom or the studio.
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Both names work.
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Often they will work in the newsroom.
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There will be people out in the field.
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That's interesting.
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I don't have that term in the list either.
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When you're out in the field, it means
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you're reporting from downtown or you've gone to
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a factory or somewhere where there is something
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that needs to be talked about.
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But the people in the actual news area, we
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would call that the newsroom or the studio.
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And then you'll even sometimes hear them
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say that someone is on location.
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So maybe there's a protest.
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I'm not sure what this is a protest of,
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but it's possible that there's a protest somewhere, and
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so a news reporter will go with the camera
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person, and they'll be on location.
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They'll go to the place where
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whatever is happening is happening.
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And we then say they're on location.
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So they go out to where the news is happening,
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and they report on the news while they're on location.
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And we would call that a news crew.
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So I'll tell you a little story.
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I saw a news crew a couple weeks ago, and
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that's what made me remember to do this lesson.
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We have speed cameras in the town where I work,
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and someone in the night came and chopped the speed
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camera down and threw it in the ditch.
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And the next morning, there was a news crew there.
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So a news crew would be the reporter, the
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tv journalist, the camera person, it looks like they
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have an audio technician with as well.
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But someone in the night was very
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angry that we have speed cameras.
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And so they came with a tool and they chopped it down.
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And so the next day, there was a
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news crew there on location, covering the story,
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reporting on what had happened there.
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Hopefully you heard all the terms I just used there.
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News crew was on location, reporting on
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the story, covering the story, and letting
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people know what was happening there.
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And then they came in a van.
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They came in a news van.
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So, parked a little further away, actually, in
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our parking lot, there was a van.
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I should have taken a picture of the actual van.
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This is probably a van in America somewhere.
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But a news van is the vehicle that a
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news crew will use to get to the location.
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It might have special antennas or a satellite dish so
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that as they're telling the story, they can do it
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live, so they can talk to the anchors in the
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studio from the place where they are.
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Sometimes a news crew will just come and record a story,
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and then they'll edit it on a computer to show later.
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But sometimes they'll be live, so they'll actually
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be reporting the news as it happens.
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And they come in a news fan with all
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of the technology that they would need in order
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to report on what is going on.
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Sometimes when there is a reporter or tv
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journalist talking about something on location, when they're
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done, they'll say, and now back to the
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studio, or now back to you.
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And what they mean is the scene is going to
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switch from their camera person what their camera person is
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showing back to the shot in the studio.
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So if I was a tv journalist, I would
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be out there with my microphone and my camera
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person, and I would report on the story.
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And at the end, I would say, that's all for me, Joe.
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Back to the studio or back to you in the studio.
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So it simply means that the story that is
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being reported on live is over, and they are
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going to switch from showing what's happening where you
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are to what's happening in the studio.
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Okay, enough about tv news.
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Let's talk about the newspaper.
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This is an older picture of me.
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I think I'm thinner.
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I don't know, maybe a little bit.
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Maybe if I saw, I don't know, enough about me.
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The newspaper.
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This is probably one of the earliest forms
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of news that we created on this planet.
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A newspaper is, of course, a paper news source that you
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can buy at a bookstore, at a mega, at a.
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I was going to say magasin.
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I'm not speaking french today.
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Kincalry.
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Oh, in Quebec, they have different names.
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Anyways, at a corner store, you
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can buy it at a newsstand.
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There might be a place in the city that sells newspapers,
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but a newspaper is a whole bunch of news printed in
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one location that you can buy and you can read.
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There's also something called a tabloid.
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So a newspaper will report on things that are happening
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in your country, in your city, in the world, etc.
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Etcetera.
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A tabloid will mostly report on famous people
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and what they are doing in their lives
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or what they are doing for work.
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Okay, so a tabloid, we have
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a word in English called gossip.
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Gossip is like talking about people
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and saying what they're doing.
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A tabloid is kind of a printed form of gossip.
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Sometimes the stories are true,
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sometimes the stories are exaggerated.
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And I think even sometimes the stories aren't true.
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But that's what a tabloid is.
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So a newspaper would be a reliable source of news.
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A tabloid would be lots of information about famous people,
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about celebrities that may or may not be true.
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Hopefully the tabloids don't get mad at me
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for saying that it might not be true.
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Journalist. Columnist.
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So that's a hard word, isn't it?
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Columnist.
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So columnist.
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You do say columnist. Columnist.
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But when I say it fast, it sounds different.
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Someone who writes for a newspaper, you
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might write for a magazine, a newspaper.
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I think you can even be a journalist and
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write for, like, an online news source as well.
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A journalist, though, is also a career.
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It's a job that you go to school for.
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So if you want to become a journalist, you
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go to school and you study journalism in order
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to learn how to write good news stories.
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In order to write good news articles.
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So the person who does it is
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called a journalist or a columnist.
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I think a columnist just writes articles every
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week, sometimes on the same topics, but that
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is what we would call them.
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So I mentioned this a few times.
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We have news articles or news stories.
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So if you were to say, hey, Bob,
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did you hear about the Edmonton Oilers?
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I just read a news article about them the other day.
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Or, hey, Bob, did you hear about the Edmonton Oilers?
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I just read a news story about them this morning.
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I'm sorry to hear that they lost.
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So anyways, we call that a
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news article or a news story.
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So a newspaper would have lots of articles.
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It would have lots of stories.
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And, of course, you'll probably all
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be familiar with this one.
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We call these headlines the title of the news article.
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The title of the news story is called a headline.
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It's usually larger print.
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Sometimes it's bold, large, bold print.
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And you see the headline first, and then if
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you are interested, you read the news story.
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So here we have a very
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old headline, the Eagle has landed.
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I think it's been a number of years
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since people have walked on the moon.
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I do think, though, we're starting to go
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back, so we'll see how that goes.
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And then we have the front page.
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Okay, so if something makes the front page, if
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a news story is on the front page, it's
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probably the most important thing that's happening in that
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city or in the world or in that country.
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Okay, so the front page is where
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the most important news article goes.
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It's where you'll find the largest headlines on
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the front page, and it's where you'll find
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out about whatever important thing is happening at
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that moment in your area.
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And then the newspaper, of course, has sections.
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So I'll go through some of these fairly quickly.
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A newspaper, by the way, is
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made up of several sections. Usually.
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Sometimes if it's a small newspaper, there might
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only be one or two sections, but in
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a larger paper, there will be many.
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I'm not going to talk about all
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of them, but main sections would be
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the local, national, or world news section.
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This might all be one section, but this would
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be local news, things that are happening in your
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city or town, national news, which is news that's
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happening in your country, and then world news would
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be news that's happening in the world.
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So we actually get a small newspaper
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here which only has local news.
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We also, I can go to school and we get
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a newspaper that has national news, mostly about Canada, and
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it does have a section on the world.
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Or you might be reading about world news.
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There's a business section which reports on things
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like the stock market and what's Tesla doing?
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And what's Elon Musk's latest tweet?
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Those kinds of things.
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So you'll have the business section.
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There's a sports section, which for some people
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is their most enjoyable section of the newspaper.
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They just love reading the sports section to
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see how their team is doing, their football
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team, their baseball team, their soccer team, their
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american football team, their cricket team.
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I'm not sure what sports you all watch,
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but you would go to this section if
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you didn't already hear it on the news.
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You might go to the newspaper to find out.
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There's usually an entertainment section.
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Now, this might depend on what newspaper you buy.
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The entertainment section will tell you about the
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latest movies that are in the theater.
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It might even list the show times
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of when those movies are playing.
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It might report on who won the latest award
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at some big gala where a bunch of actors
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go in your country or in Hollywood or wherever.
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But the entertainment section would report on that.
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It would report on music, it would report on, it
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might have the top ten list of best novels.
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It'll report on tv shows and those kinds of things.
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And then, of course, there's a weather section.
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The weather section tells you what the
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weather is going to be like.
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Sometimes the weather section in a newspaper,
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though, isn't the best place to go.
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For me, the Internet is the better place to
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go if I want to find out what's happening,
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what the weather forecast is for that week.
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So here you see, they're going to
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show you the seven day forecast.
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They're telling you what the weather will be like
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or might be like for the next seven days.
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Breaking news.
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Breaking news.
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I think we sometimes call this a news
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flash, but breaking news is probably more common.
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This is news that's happening right now.
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This can happen when you're watching tv.
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Maybe you're watching a tv show, and then all sudden that
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they just stop and they go to the newsroom and they
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start telling you about what's happening in the world.
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So breaking news is important news.
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This is usually on television, where they suddenly stop
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the regular program or the show, and they start
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telling you about something that's happening in the world.
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News coverage is just a general term to talk
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about when they are telling you about what's happening
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somewhere, and then they're doing it daily.
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So during the pandemic, there was news
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coverage every day about how many people
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were in the hospital during an election.
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There's usually news news coverage for the entire
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time that people are voting that day.
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So they talk about what's happening
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and who's currently winning the election.
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So we would just simply refer to that as news coverage.
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This is something new ish.
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In English, when we say ish, it.
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It kind of means, like, not
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really new, but relatively new.
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So, like, I'll talk about ish another time.
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But fake news is something that started about ten or
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15 years ago with the rise of social media.
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So sometimes when you read news
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online, it's actually not true. It's fake.
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It's a lie.
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Some news is true and some news is fake news.
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And sometimes it's hard to figure out which is which.
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20, 30, 40 years ago, it was harder
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to have fake news because all of your
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news came from official news sources.
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But now anyone can write a news article.
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Like, I can write a news article today
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and make a website that looks like a
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news source and somebody might believe it.
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The press.
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So we do refer to usually newspapers as the press,
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but we can use television as well and Internet news.
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If you work for the government and you release
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news, you might be called the press secretary.
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So you're the person who tells the news
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of the government to the people, but it's
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just a general term for news.
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So the people who make the news, we
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would call them the press, even though not
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everyone is running a pressing machine.
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Or what do you call that when they.
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A printing press. There you go.
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Not everyone is running a printing press.
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Can you tell I'm thinking about something
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else while I'm teaching the lesson?
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I shouldn't do that.
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And if you have freedom of the press, it
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means that the newspapers can print what they want
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without the government telling them what to do.
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So in the world, some countries have a lot of freedom
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of the press, some have less freedom of the press.
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But that would simply mean that the government
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doesn't tell the newspaper or other news sources
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what to report on an interview.
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I should have put this one earlier.
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An interview is when a news reporter talks to someone.
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So when they chopped down the speed camera in the
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town close to me, they interviewed a couple people.
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They interviewed the people who lived there.
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They interviewed the mayor to see
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what was going to happen.
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So it basically means the news reporter.
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This is my microphone.
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If you're wondering why I'm doing this, the news
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reporter would ask questions, and then they would interview
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someone, usually on the street or on location.
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And then if you listen to the radio,
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we usually call it a news broadcast.
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So a broadcast is anytime you listen to something,
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actually, you can watch a broadcast as well.
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It's still from the days
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when everything went through antennas.
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So they would broadcast the news story. Right.
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So when you're listening to the news on
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your radio, you're listening to a news broadcast.
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And then there's sometimes a news update.
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An update is simply more information about a
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news story that you might be following.
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So you might be following today, you might
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be reading updates about how the debate went
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last night between Biden and Trump.
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My kids watched a little bit of it.
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I'm actually not that interested in american politics.
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But you might be reading a news update
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this morning, more information about how the debate
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went or more information about what happened.
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