1. Choose the collocation that is not correct in each sentence.

(Chọn cụm từ cố định không đúng trong mỗi câu sau.)

1. On the way to college, I listen to podcasts/ music streaming services / social media posts/ the radio.

2. Most evenings, I watch online video clips/ news blogs / reality TV /drama series.

3. The best places to get news from are reality TV / news apps / local newspapers / social media posts.

4. Maria loves being up-to-date with what's going on in the world, so she often reads celebrity twitter feeds /newspaper editorials / news blogs / drama series.

5 Sam's always online and posts/ retweets / shares / feeds / ‘likes' lots of things. I don't know how he has time to work!

2. Complete each gap with one word from Exercise 1.

(Điền vào chỗ trống với một tù trong bài 1.)

1. Which celebrity Twitter feeds do you follow?

My favourite is Ryan Reynolds. I often retweet what he posts, he's so funny.

2. My favourite TV drama _____ was Game Of Thrones. I used to write social _____ posts about it all the time.

3. My sister can't stand _____ TV. She thinks it's a waste of time watching people being themselves on a TV show.

4. Have you got any news _____ on your phone or do you read news _____ online?

5. I like knowing what's happening in my area, so I read the _____ newspaper every week. They have some interesting newspaper _____ about issues affecting our town.

6. We sometimes watch music video _____ online, but usually use a music _____ service to download songs.

7. Do you ever _____ interesting things with your friends on social media?

8. Katia made a _____ recently about good books for teenagers. Over a hundred people have listened to it already.

3. Match the words on the left with the words on the right.

(Nối các từ ở bên trái với các từ bên phải.)

4. Complete the pairs of sentences with the words in the box.

(Hoàn thành các cặp câu sau với các từ trong hộp.)

1. I watch the news on TV on a daily basis.

Do you tend to read newspapers on a regular basis?

2. The papers are awash with _____ about the elections.

I feel like I'm constantly being bombarded with _____, but too little of it is about important issues such as climate change.

3. This paper has a clear _____ to telling the truth, we don't report fake news.

Is it possible to make a long-term _____ to truthful reporting?

4. Don't believe anything you read on that website, it doesn't use any reliable of _____ information or check facts carefully.

I was surprised there were incorrect facts in the editorial as that website is usually a reputable _____ of information.

5. The company made up the story for commercial _____, but they didn't make any money on it. It's wrong to spread fake news for political _____. It should be illegal in my opinion,

6. I've got a gut _____ that this story isn't true.

Matt had a distinct _____ that the interview was going to be a disaster, and he was right.

7. Journalists are always looking for a newsworthy _____ that they can report on.

When I glanced at the headlines, there was an eye-catching _____, about the prime minister.

5. Choose the correct answers A - C.

(Chọn đáp án đúng.)

Can you spot fake news?

Have you ever checked the (1) B of a story you’ve read? What made you suspect there was something wrong with it? The internet is (2) _____ with information about everything, but how good are you at spotting fake news? A study of nearly 5,000 people in America had some surprising results. It turns out that people who think the media is trying to (3) _____ everyone were often the worst at spotting fake news. People with a negative attitude to the word ‘news’ often thought they needed the least help (4) _____ sources to check if a story was true or not. In contrast, people who had a more positive view of the news were able to trust their (5) _____ when it came to working out which were fake stories - 82 percent of them spotted the fake ones compared to 69 percent of those who fell more negative about the news. The other factor that helped people spot fake headlines was a higher level of education. The higher the level of education, the less likely people were to take a story at face value, and the more likely they were to think (6) _____ about it.

1. A. value                   B. accuracy                 C. true

2. A. awash                 B. full                          C. reliable

3. A. distort                 B. spread                     C. mislead

4. A. evaluating           B. manipulating          C. tampering

5. A. feelings               B. thoughts                  C. instincts

6. A. remarkably         B. critically                 C. alarmingly

6. Find and correct the mistakes in the sentences.

(Tìm và sửa lại lỗi sai trong các câu sau.)

1. I read the newspaper on a regular base so I know what's happening around the globe.

2. When you look at the images, it is obvious someone has tampered on the photos.

3. Pay closely attention to what you read - so many stories distort the truth one way or another.

4. They ran the story to make money. It was all about commercial gaining, not the truth.

5. I couldn't help noticing the catch-eye story about a celebrity on the front page.

6. I think that website has a political agenda, it’s always publishing alarmingly stories about the government.