Урок 20. Teenage magazines
Предмет: Английский язык, 7 класс

7 класс

Lesson 20

Teenage magazines

In this lesson

you will learn how to start your own teenage magazine, read and discuss typical magazine articles using words and phrases popular, glossy, instead, attractive, beauty, celebrity, competition, offer, real life story.

Ключевые слова: Popular, glossy, instead, attractive, beauty, celebrity, competition, offer, real life story, cover, title, colourful.

Основное содержание урока

Hello! Have you ever wanted to start a youth magazine? My name is Mag! And today I’m going to tell you what steps you should take to establish a magazine!

Step 1. Think of a title for your magazine. Make it simple, you want it to be something people can remember. And it should somehow reflect the content of your magazine.

Step 2. Decide on the issue’s dates (monthly, weekly, fortnightly, etc.).

Step 3. Choose what sort of price you’d like customers to pay, or if it's free! Make sure it’s advertised on the magazine’s front cover.

Step 4. You could include some articles about celebrities. Then put their photos on the cover.

Step 5. Put your titles on the cover as well. Make sure the cover is glossy, colourful and attractive.

Step 6. Come up with a list of topics that you want to include in every issue. This list is to be developed. You could use it as your summary afterward.

Step 7. Include a lot of pictures. That won’t make the magazine boring. After all, it is for young people.

Step 8. Send the magazine to a bunch of your friends and family, ask them if they’d like to be a “subscriber”. Add these people to a list in your e-mail contacts and come out with issues as often as you’d like.

Step 9. Give a launching party and invite area teens. Provide music, beverages, snacks and prizes. Sample copies of your magazine and subscription forms should be readily available and all the details of the function should be teen-oriented with no alcoholic beverages.

Step 10. From your money that you earn, employ some friends to take photos/draw illustrations/write articles on certain subjects etc. You can then charge more!

So, my dear friend, now you know how to start your own magazine! Go for it and good luck!

Watch the video again and complete the sentences.

1) Include a lot of	. That won’t make the	.

2) Make sure the cover is	, colourful and	.

3) You could include some	about	. Then put their photos on the	.

Тренировочные задания

1. Complete the sentences using the given words and phrases in the correct form: popular, glossy, instead, attractive, real.

About 50 per cent of British teenagers read teenage magazines! Two of the most	magazines for girls are “Sugar” and “Bliss”. They have	, colourful covers and include beauty and fashion, celebrity gossip,	life stories, horoscopes and quizzes.

Of course, boys don’t usually find these magazines very interesting!	, they buy music magazines or magazines about sport.

Usually, teenage magazines contain a lot of language that only teenagers use! This makes the magazines more	to teenagers.

2. Match the titles with the categories.

This month’s horoscopes!

articles

Get perfect skin!

regular features

Our top 10 summer outfits!

stars & celebrities

Win tickets to a Champion’s League match!

competitions & offers

Britain’s hottest new boy bands!

quizzes

Do your friends really know you?

fashion

The Generations gap!

health & beauty

3. Сomplete the sentences with the correct variants.

“Shoot” is at/for/to teenagers who like sport and especially football. It has articles about/for/from football matches and footballers.

“Cosmo” is for teenage girls. It probably has articles about/on/of fashion and beauty as/so well as gossip about stars. It also has problem pages but/and/or horoscopes.

4. Match the words and phrases with their Russian equivalents.

colourful

наоборот, вместо

popular

привлекательный

instead

знаменитость

glossy

популярный

attractive

обложка

beauty

глянцевый, блестящий

celebrity

красота

real life story

красочный

cover

соревнование

offer

история из жизни

competition

предложение

5. Put the verbs in brackets into Past Simple or Past Continuous.

1) Anna	(cook) dinner before dad came home.

2) Mike	(ride) his bicycle while Steve was skateboarding.

3) The detective asked, “What	(you do) at the time of the robbery?”

4) I	(pass) the exam without difficulty.

5) She	(leave) school when she was 16.

6. Put the parts of the article in the correct order. Prepare your own little article about any news you like and read it to the class.

The teenager’s wish to learn languages began in 2006 after completing Farsi lessons. He enjoyed it so much that he decided to become fluent in modern Arabic.

After that, there was no stopping him. Over the years, he has added Russian, Italian, Spanish, Persian, Swahili Indonesian and many others to his repertoire of languages. The list does not include the ones that he has taken up at school.

This has earned him the title of the world’s youngest polyglot. But he is still not satisfied.

Los Angeles teen Steven Tracy likes to learn languages. It took the 16-year-old five years to master 19 languages!

Then he teaches himself the correct grammar, develops his skills by reading newspapers and talking with native speakers, either in person or on internet chat rooms.

The most amazing part is that he has managed to learn all the additional languages on his own. The young polyglot begins by learning how to pronounce the alphabet correctly.

7. Use the word given in capitals to form a word that fits each space.

1) Teenage magazines contain lots of colourful pictures to be	to young people. (ATTRACT)

2) The performance we saw at the theatre yesterday was	. (AMAZE)

3) My sister works in a	teenage magazine. (GLOSS)

4) There are a lot of cameras and	near the concert hall. (REPORT)

5) My father watches	news every evening. (NATION)

8. Complete the dialogue. Put the verbs in brackets in Past Simple or Past Continuous.

A: I	(read) a newspaper last night when I	(hear) my brother shouting.

B: What	(happen)?

A: He	(do) the washing up when a cup	(break) and he	(cut) his finger.

Контрольные задания

Вариант 1

1. Choose the correct item.

1) Mother was cooking/cooked at 5 pm yesterday afternoon when father called.

2) Last year we were staying/stayed in a luxurious hotel in New York City.

3) Steven was walking/walked to school when he was meeting/met John.

4) He was sleeping/slept when Jane was calling/called for help.

2. Put the parts of the article in the correct order.

As Mike Whyte was fishing he suddenly became ill and fell off the deck into the river.

Buster saw that his owner was in great danger and had to act quickly, before it was too late.

The clever dog ran up to the car where Mike’s friend, Sid was asleep.

On June 16th in Cambridge a toy terrier named Buster saved his owner from drowning in a dangerous river.

Mike was fine after a couple of days recovering in hospital.

Sid then saw what was happening and called the emergency services.

Buster barked and scratched the man’s car door furiously until he woke up.

3. Сomplete the sentences.

1) When you buy some milk, put it immediately into the fridge or it’ll go	.

2) These jeans don’t go	the silk blouse.

3) Bill went	speaking about his problems but nobody was listening	him.

4) I’d like to watch a wildlife documentary, turn	Channel 5, please.

5) Members	this club take part	lots of activities to keep their district clean.

Вариант 2

1. Choose the correct item.

1) They were going/went to a party last Friday night.

2) Yesterday, he was leaving/left work and took/was taking the bus straight home.

3) I was seeing/saw a friendly cat while I was walking/walked to work today.

4) It was snowing/snowed heavily when she looked/was looking out of the window.

2. Fill in the gaps.

Television is powerful mass	which provides us	the latest international and local	, gossip about famous people, weather	, and advertisements.

Everyone can choose a channel and a programme to their taste: a talk	, a music programme, an interview, a reality	, and different films.

often changes our tastes, ideas, opinions because we believe what we see and hear. Its	in our life is great.

3. Complete the sentences.

1) The girl went	speaking about fashion and beauty but nobody was listening	her.

2) This haircut don’t go	the silk dress.

3) Members	“Save Animals” club take part	lots of activities to help stray (бездомным) cats and dogs.

4) When you buy eggs, put them immediately into the fridge or they’ll go	.

5) I’d like to watch a talk show, turn	Channel 7, please.