Listening 1
What is the citizen journalism?
Citizen journalism is news reported by someone with or without journalistic experience who is interested in the story.
ICT stands for...
a) International Communication Technology
b) Information and communication technology
How we form present participial adjectives and what do we use them for?
Verb+ing
We use to describe:
an ongoing state
the cause of a feeling or emotion
A way of thinking about a subject
Viewpoint
I am water and I swim on water. Who am I?
Ice floe
What is the name of an agency where Robin Hamman works?
Headshift
What is the podcast and when did podcasting start?
In about 2004.
Podcasts are digital audio files that are automatically downloaded from the internet onto a computer, with the further option of transferring them to a portable audio player.
Formation of past participial adjectives. What do we use them for?
Verb+ed
To describe:
- a completed state
- the person or thing that feels or has the quality of the adjective.
Give the definition of a word "foundation"
An underlying principle, an idea, or a fact that supports something further
If you say "Don't come", it comes anyway. If you say "Don't go", it goes anyway.
Time
Hamman points out that journalists are using blogging, Facebook and Twitter to reach out to......
new audience and sources of information.
What is an e-tuk-tuk used for?
E-tuk-tuk allows to transmit audio information using loudspeakers and broadcasting over the radio via the telephone line.
Choose the appropriate participial adjective
The teacher was annoying/annoyed because I had forgotten to do my homework.
annoying
Synonym of the word "random"
Accidental
What has no length, depth, width, height, but can be measured?
Temperature
Hamman says that the civilian media are ordinary people. Are all these people are trained as journalists?
Sometimes they have been trained, sometimes not.
According to McChesney what aspect makes podcasting more attractive than radio?
its relative low cost and logistical ease.
Choose the appropriate participial adjective
We went to the cinema but I was very boring/bored because I had seen the film before.
bored
A person or document that provides information
Source
Two fathers, two sons found three oranges and divided them. Everyone got a whole orange. How can this be?
Thet were grandfather, dad and son
According to Hamman what is the one of the reasons why citizen journalism is becoming so interesting to a lot of people at the moment?
The person who does the story usually tells people their background- any biases they maight have, any oinions that they may have before they started covering the story or indeed formed as the story came out.
Why local people in developing countries asked to be taught how to make posdcasts?
Because they consider podcasts valuable and wanted to ise their own voices in communication.
Past participial adjectives can be formed both with transitive and intransitive verbs. Isn't it?
No. They can be formed only from transitive verbs.
Give the definition of a word "bias"
A strong feeling for or against something
If it rains at 12 o'clock in the morning, can we expect that in 72 hours there will be sunny weather?
No. In 72 hours it will be night