oo BRlTlsH oo couNclL LearnEnglish Teens skills practice: How false information - exercises Listen to the radio interview about how false iníormation spreads and do the exercises to practise and improve your listening skills.

Preparation Match the vocabulary with the conect definition and wfite +j next to the numbers 1-10.

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1. Check your understanding: multiple choice Circle the best answer to these questions.

1. l/t/lrich statement about circular reporting is true? a. lt is the spread of true infonmation. lb';f i= when false information is validated by one other source on|y. q lt only occurs with information on Wikipedia. @t may involve several publications. \Mich statement is true about journalists? a" They are not permitted to copy information from \Mkipedia. , /l. They refuse to copy information írom \Mkipedia. v Q. As soon as they include information in an article, they verify the information. i§,,Many journalists may publish inaccuracies in several articles. 3. Výhich statement is coneď? F, Another name for a coati is a Brazilian aardvark. The American , / b- student changed the infornration on Wikipedia to what he believed to be the truth. Y people _ c. Many believed that a Brazilian aardvark was the same as ag93li. ,4,.:l::,;1 i d. When writers wrote about the Brazilian aardvark they knew it was a-joke, www.britishcounci1.orgllearnenglishteens oo BRlTlsH oo coUNclL LearnEnglish Teens

4. \Mtich statement is true about \Mkipedia? la-)Some people add false content to a Wikipedia entry intentionally. b, Updating information on Wikipedia is against the law. c. There is hardly any true information on t#ikipedia. d. Many true facts on Wikipedia initially appear as false inforrnation. 5. \Mtat is true about childhood vaccines and autism? There is a clear connection between childhood vaccines and autism. Circular reporting incited many parents not to vaccinate their ch]ldren. claims that they were connected first appeared on \Mkipedia. d. The media proved early on that the clairns about vacci*es and autisrn were fatse. wtich statement is conect? Generally speaking, it's easy to identiff false informatíon. b. lf the original source is Wikipedia or the media, the information is almost always false, _c$eflecting critically on what we read is something most people ofien do. ,ď t-ack of time to think and investigate can cau§e us to believe things that aren't true"

2. Check your understanding: gap fill Complete the expresbns from the audio with a phrase from the box.

take things at face value by any méans spread like wildíire ln a nut§hell

thought n of it in no way

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Discussion $t_ilĚ,lffi:ř,tíiĚ,ffi iitťj:ť Do you use Wikipedia? \Mraťs yorr oplnkn of iť?

Have you ever believed iníormation and later discovered it was íalse? Wrat happened?

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