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On this page you will find 56 free, printable worksheets on mass media. This mass-media worksheet encourages intermediate and upper intermediate learners to consider the positive and negative effects of television, complete some comprehension exercises, and think about the future of mass media. There are a variety of activities and the short article could be used to lead into a discussion too. You could even create your own true or false questions to further test student comprehension. There is a lot of variety in the activities dealing with this topic so for lower level learners or even more advanced material, look through the rest of the section.
Mass media plays a prominent role in the lives of many people today while others are entirely without the things many of us take for granted. You can talk to your students about mass media when discussing habits. Ask “How many hours of TV do you watch?” and compare that to how many hours they spend reading. Ask them to imagine what they would do with that time if the TV suddenly broke and see what they have to say. Remember not to criticize their lifestyles because that is not the point of the exercise and many people enjoy sitting down to several hours of mindless TV in the evening after a long day of work or school. Students in some countries are just as stressed by their studies as adults are with their jobs so that downtime is precious to them.

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What are Mass-media?
Mass media refers collectively to all media technologies, including the Internet, television, newspapers, film and radio, which are used for mass communications, and to the organizations which control these technologies. Since the 1950s, in the countries that have reached a high level of industrialization, the mass media of cinema, radio and TV have a key role in political power. Contemporary research demonstrates an increasing level of concentration of media ownership, with many media industries already highly concentrated and dominated by a very small number of firms.
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Happy News

Happy News

Pocket Passport
  Real-life stories focus on the good things that are happening in the world. Uplifting and powerful, this conversation-based lesson with comprehension and discussion questions, vocabulary ...
1 Views 9,233 All
Caring & Sharing During the Pandemic

Caring & Sharing During the Pandemic

Pocket Passport
Teach vocabulary and expressions that focus on the positive things that are happening in the world during the global pandemic. Storytelling with illustrations is a powerful technique to get your ...
1 Views 18,835 All
Corona Conversations: A Better You

Corona Conversations: A Better You

Pocket Passport
A conversation and lesson about getting in shape while stuck inside. A YouTube video with vocabulary, expressions and conversation starters to talk about the current global pandemic. Being produc ...
2 Views 20,865 All
Netflix Reading Comprehension (Business English, Statistics, Graphs)

Netflix Reading Comprehension (Business English, Statistics, Graphs)

Petra
Newspaper article about the Netflix streaming service and its current challenges. Current affairs, the media world, reading comprehension, graphs, TV series, seasons, British and American English ...
1 Views 28,195 IntAdv
Oprah Winfrey Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille Award Acceptance Speech

Oprah Winfrey Golden Globes Cecil B. DeMille Award Acceptance Speech

Angie Kokolaki
Oprah Winfrey received the Cecil B. de Mille Award at the 2018 Golden Globes and gave an amazing acceptance speech. You can watch it via YouTube. [youtube=http://www.youtube=http://www.youtube.co ...
9 Views 12,431 Pre-IntInt
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Movie Worksheet: Broadway Musical Hamilton + Reading

Movie Worksheet: Broadway Musical Hamilton + Reading

sasha_alexandra
Hit Broadway musical "Hamilton" is getting more popular everyday, so I decided to make a worksheet dedicated to it. I'd say it's suitable for ss older than fourteen. It's perfect for intermediate ...
4 Views 29,061 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Famous Photos

Famous Photos

William Work
This is a PowerPoint presentation for vocabulary with a number of internationally famous photos. When they are first displayed, the photo has no caption. The students are to look at the photos and ...
16 Views 23,353 ElemPre-IntIntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Tavi Gevinson. A Teen Just Trying to Figure It Out

Movie Worksheet: Tavi Gevinson. A Teen Just Trying to Figure It Out

sasha_alexandra
This worksheet may be interesting to a class of teenage girls. Tavi Gevinson, being a teenager herself, tells about her own web magazine and problems that modern girls and women face. Not only thi ...
2 Views 13,598 AdvExam
Movie Worksheet: President Obama's Statement on the Paris Attacks

Movie Worksheet: President Obama's Statement on the Paris Attacks

BusyTeacher Contributor
This is a worksheet for a listening and viewing comprehension about a statement that President Obama gave just after the attacks took place. Recommended level is pre-intermediate. It goes with thi ...
4 Views 16,352 Pre-Int
Channel One News

Channel One News

, , Mass-media,
This is a worksheet I use with Channel One News. Before watching the news, students try to predict what the news will be about on that day in a classroom discussion. During the video, students fil ...
4 Views 22,395 ElemPre-IntInt
The Oxford English Dictionary - New Words for 2015

The Oxford English Dictionary - New Words for 2015

The Oxford English Dictionary have just announced their latest additions - this time it's more than 500 words, phrases and meanings that have entered into common use over the last 10 years. I hav ...
7 Views 22,439 IntAdvExam
Types of Media

Types of Media

Mass-media,
This is a simple worksheet to introduce the different types of media and to define them. Students will also classify different types of media using key expressions and discuss their opinion with a ...
15 Views 52,564 Pre-IntInt
Media Habits Quiz

Media Habits Quiz

, Mass-media
This is a quiz that aims to make students more aware of their media habits. Students interview each other (pair work) and then share the results with the whole class. Recommended for teenagers or ...
14 Views 37,421 ElemPre-IntInt
Movie Worksheet: Media's Manipulative Influence

Movie Worksheet: Media's Manipulative Influence

This is a worksheet that uses the video "The Media's manipulative influence over your morals" as a starting point to discuss the effects of the media's influence on women's self-awareness and care ...
8 Views 19,599 IntAdv
Movie Worksheet: Mad City (the Media)

Movie Worksheet: Mad City (the Media)

This is a worksheet based on the film "Mad City" starring John Travolta and Dustin Hoffman. It aims to show students how the media is a powerful tool that can shape people’s opinions and sel ...
10 Views 15,963 IntAdv
Graphic Novel Worksheet: The Influencing Machine - on the Media

Graphic Novel Worksheet: The Influencing Machine - on the Media

This is a worksheet based on some extracts from the graphic novel The influencing machine by Brooke Gladstone. Students will do reading comprehension exercises, summarize a page and practise corre ...
4 Views 12,394 IntAdv
Debate: Should the Media Be Regulated by the Government?

Debate: Should the Media Be Regulated by the Government?

These are prompts for a debate on the topic "Should the media be regulated by the government?". I have included a debate outline that assigns roles to all of your students, in case you have more t ...
8 Views 24,517 IntAdv
Game, Tic Tac Toe

Game, Tic Tac Toe

Mass-media,
This worksheet contains some cards for a game called Tic Tac Toe. The questions are all related to media. Divide the class into two groups. Each group must answer the question correctly to place t ...
9 Views 15,210 Elem
Information Gap Task 2/4: City Events

Information Gap Task 2/4: City Events

Sirhajwan Idek
Mass-media,
The information gap consists of one version of news reports (3 news reports)and one version of advertisements ( 3 ads) on city events, the two versions are followed by information transfer, senten ...
8 Views 19,700 ElemPre-IntInt
Television Reality Series

Television Reality Series

Mass-media,
Reading worksheet about television reality series The World's Strictest Parents. Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents unscripted situations and actual occurr ...
4 Views 16,890 Pre-Int
Entertainment Listening Task

Entertainment Listening Task

I use this worksheet to check listening comprehension. It relates to the topic entertainment and media, cinema, movie and has keys. Students make first activity without listening to the recording, ...
17 Views 31,811 Pre-IntInt
Movie Worksheet: TED- The Key to Media's Hidden Codes

Movie Worksheet: TED- The Key to Media's Hidden Codes

The worksheet is based on the TED talk by Ben Beaton "The Key To Media's Hidden Codes." I designed it for a group of general English upper-intermediate students. Before watching the talk, students ...
6 Views 25,791 AdvExam
Write and Present the News

Write and Present the News

Mass-media,
I had some students that wouldn't speak at all so I invented this. I have used it for all levels (from teenagers up) and it is always good fun. Give students around 30 minutes to work together in ...
22 Views 35,464 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
Breaking News! (Passive Voice in Use)

Breaking News! (Passive Voice in Use)

How to make learning the passive voice fun? Create and shoot the news! First of all let your ss recollect thematic parts a newspaper consists of. Then give them examples of the news/parts of the a ...
30 Views 184,001 Pre-IntIntAdv
Listening to BBC Radio 4: Facebook and Twitter

Listening to BBC Radio 4: Facebook and Twitter

Mass-media,
This is a podcast from BBC Radio 4 and the questions I made for my students of upper-intermediate level. The topic itself is not that unique. However, I am sure, it will be an interesting lead-in ...
5 Views 16,287 IntAdv

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