Extensive Reading Report - Intermediate

1.    Title of the article: Can you trust the news media?

2.    Source of the article (link): http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201312/can-you-trust-news-media/

Author's name: Jehovah's Witnesses

3.   Before you read, look at the picture(s) if any, as well as the title. What do you   

 think the article will be about?

 

I think the article will be about the reliance on information and how reliable it is.

4.   Read the article and describe what you understand of it in as much detail as

     possible.

 

     In the US people don't trust all in news media. There are many facts to believe    

     that news are manipulated, behind this manipulation of information there are several facts that causes this lack of reliance on news medias.

    First, we say there are economic interests because media outlets are business and every business needs to make money, and this money comes from advertising, so in this way medias have to keep down their comments against some sponsors, because this sponsors could advertise elsewhere. Second, there are personal interests from part of some journalist that want to make a report about several subjects, but some of these journalist fall down into despair because they want to show reliable evidence to make their reports believable, so they manipulate evidence and these kind of acts make news unreliable. In the other hand, every journalist has a different way to present a story, so they're free to include or omit some information, sometimes distorting the sense of the news.

    Finally, all we find in news media is not false, we just need to be a bit more careful and wiser. That's why before relying on some information it's necessary to make us some questions to find some of consistency in any kind of information. But remember: What seems to be a fact today may be proved wrong tomorrow.

  

 

5.   Vocabulary Use: Choose 05 new vocabulary items (words, collocations or idiomatic expressions, etc.) and write their meanings and 02 examples related to your real experience.

1.    Mogul: A very rich or powerful person; a magnate.

 

-       I always wake up thinking about the day I'll become a mogul and I'll be able to buy everything I want.

-       I would like to meet a mogul and ask him an advice.

 

2.    Deface: Spoil the appearance or surface of; disfigure./ destroy.

 

-       I wish I could raise my cat again, because every time I get a new pair of slippers she defaces it.

-       Once when I was a child my dog defaced my workbook, so I could not give my homework to my teacher.

 

3.    Titillate: To excite (another) pleasurably, superficially or erotically.

 

-       Every time my cousin sees a beautiful woman on the street, he titillates and blushes so much at the point that his face looks like a tomato.

-       Soccer titillates me so much, that's why every time I watch a soccer match I'm hooked on it.

 

4.    Convey: to give official information or a formal message to someone.

     to communicate ideas or feelings indirectly.

 

-       I like Claude Monet's paintings because it conveys a lot of feelings and sensations once you see his work.

-       Every time I share my opinion about different kind of subjects I try to convey it as clear as possible.

 

5.    Left out: to not include someone or something.

 

-       When I was a kid I used to leave out fat kids because I considered they were stupid boy. Now I think that was stupid and I feel ashamed of it.

-       Once I read about someone that I don't remember his name right now, I realized that when you want to follow your dreams you just need to leave your complexes out and trust in yourself.

Student's Name: Diego Mendoza Coral