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- The Lesson File You will need to print the lesson file first. Here’s what you will find in each lesson. 1. A vocabulary match exercise for each story
- 3. A transcript for the newscast
- Now you are ready to begin. Read on! Story 1: NHL team likely to come to Winnipeg Step 1: Learn new vocabulary
- Vocabulary Word Meaning d
- Step 2: Listen to the first story
- To find out more: www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2011/05/26/sp-nhl-atl-thrashers.html Story 2: Some Canadians have no Internet access Step 1
- Vocabulary Word Meaning b
- To find out more
- Vocabulary Word Meaning _e
- Step 2: Listen to the third story
- Answers for Story 1
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W  elcome to the CBC Newscast Lesson!
The CBC EAL Newscast is a listening lesson for students who are learning English. The lessons are for students who are at Canadian Language Benchmarks 3 and 4 (high beginner / low intermediate). Each newscast has a lesson file and an audio file. The Lesson File You will need to print the lesson file first. Here’s what you will find in each lesson. 1. A vocabulary match exercise for each story Learning new vocabulary before you listen makes it easier for you to understand the story. 2. Questions on the main ideas or details of each story Can you listen to a news story and understand the main ideas? Are you hearing the most important details? Answer the questions and find out! 3. A transcript for the newscast If you are having difficulty understanding the story when you listen, you can use the transcript to help you. 4. Answers to the questions in the lesson The answers are at end of the lesson on page 5. 5. An internet link or other resource suggestion Some stories will have an internet link or suggest another resource you can use to find more information. (Note: CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of external websites) The Audio File Click on this file to hear three real world news stories read by a CBC news reader. The first is a Manitoba story. The second is a Canadian story. The third is an international story. All of the stories are in the same audio file There are new stories and lessons every Thursday. Now you are ready to begin. Read on! Story 1: NHL team likely to come to Winnipeg Step 1: Learn new vocabulary. Learning new vocabulary before you listen makes it easier for you to understand the story. Can you match these vocabulary words with their meaning? The first one is completed for you as an example.
Step 2: Listen to the first story in the audio file. Focus on listening for the main ideas and key information. Listen as many times as you need to. Step 3: Answer questions about the story. Fill in the blank with the correct word from the box below. The first one is completed for you as an example. 1. True North Sports and Entertainment wants to bring an NHL team ______ to Winnipeg. 2. True North is hoping to ____ the Atlanta Thrashers team. 3. The _____ of bringing the Atlanta Thrashers to Winnipeg could be _____ one-hundred-and-fifty ______ dollars. 4. Winnipeg hockey fans are __________. 5. Winnipeg has not had an NHL team _____ 1996. That was the year the Winnipeg Jets _____. NHL excited million over left back buy since cost To find out more: www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/story/2011/05/26/sp-nhl-atl-thrashers.html Story 2: Some Canadians have no Internet access Step 1: Learn new vocabulary. Learning new vocabulary before you listen makes it easier for you to understand the story. Can you match these vocabulary words with their meaning? The first one is completed for you as an example.
Step 2: Listen to the first story in the audio file. Focus on listening for the main ideas and key information. Listen as many times as you need to. Step 3: Answer questions about the story. Does option a) or option b) make the sentence correct? Underline or circle your answer. The first one is completed for you as an example.
To find out more: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2011/05/25/technology-internet-use-statistics-canada.html Story 3: Tornado causes destruction in Missouri town Step 1: Learn new vocabulary. Learning new vocabulary before you listen makes it easier for you to understand the story. Can you match these vocabulary words with their meaning? The first one is completed for you as an example.
Step 2: Listen to the third story in the audio file. Focus on listening for the main ideas and key information. Listen as many times as you need to. Step 3: Answer questions about the story. Which of the following statements about the story are true? Which are false? Underline or circle the correct answer. The first one is completed for you as an example.
To find out more: www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/05/26/weather-us-tornadoes.html Hi, this is Heather Wells. You’re listening to Learning English with CBC newscast for the week of May 23rd. Here is our first news story. NHL team likely to come to Winnipeg True North Sports and Entertainment wants to bring a National Hockey League team back to Winnipeg. True North is trying to buy the Atlanta Thrashers team and bring it to Winnipeg. It could cost over one-hundred-and-fifty million dollars to bring the team here. True North is the company that owns the MTS Centre and the Manitoba Moose hockey team. Hockey fans are excited about the possibility of having an NHL team back in Winnipeg for the 2011-12 season. The Winnipeg Jets left the city in 1996. And in Canadian news, Some Canadians have no Internet access Statistics Canada did a survey on Internet use in Canada. According to the survey, twenty per cent of Canadians do not have Internet access in their homes. Close to half of the households without Internet access are low income households earning $30,000 a year or less. The survey found there were several reasons why households do not have Internet. Some said they do not need it while others said the equipment is too expensive. Just over ten percent of the households without Internet said it is because they do not know how to use computers. And in international news, Tornado causes destruction in Missouri town A tornado that moved through Joplin, Missouri last week killed close to a hundred and forty people and destroyed much of the town. The tornado moved through the south part of the town, destroying homes, buildings, and trees for about ten kilometers. Many people were missing after the tornado hit. Emergency shelters quickly filled with people. During the tornado, the winds were blowing at over three hundred kilometers an hour. Weather officials rated the tornado as an F5. The tornado was the deadliest one in the United States since 1953. Answers for Story 1 Vocabulary: 1) d; 2) f; 3) e; 4) b; 5) g; 6) c; 7) a Questions: 1) NHL, back; 2) buy; 3) cost, over, million; 4) excited; 5) since, left
Vocabulary: 1) b; 2) g; 3) d; 4) a; 5) c; 6) e; 7) f Questions: 1) a; 2) b; 3) a; 4) b
Vocabulary: 1) e; 2) g: 3) a; 4) i; 5) c; 6) b; 7) h; 8) f; 9) d Questions: 1) F; 2) T; 3) F; 4) T; 5) F; 6) T Download 53.55 Kb. Share with your friends:
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