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Twitter twitter.com/SeanBanville Facebook www.facebook.com/pages/BreakingNewsEnglish/155625444452176 THE ARTICLE From https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2008/200805-tiktok.html The on-off talks between Microsoft and the parent company of TikTok are back on again. Microsoft has been interested in buying part of TikTok for many months. The tech giant has been in talks with the parent company ByteDance Ltd. Discussions between the two companies came to a halt last week when US President Donald Trump suggested that he might ban TikTok from the USA. He was worried that the personal details of over 100 million Americans could get into the wrong hands. President Trump changed his mind at the weekend after the CEO of Microsoft phoned him. Microsoft said it "would ensure that all private data of TikTok's American users is transferred to and remains in the United States." TikTok is the latest social media platform to become hugely popular around the globe. Users upload very short videos of themselves lip- syncing to well-known songs, dancing, making funny faces or doing other humorous things. TikTok's owner ByteDance is a Beijing-based Internet company founded in 2012 by Chinese entrepreneur Zhang Yiming. It now has over 800 million users worldwide. Microsoft is offering ByteDance $50 billion for the operations in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. However the business website Bloomberg disagrees with that valuation. It said: "The idea that TikTok - without the UK, India or dozens of other emerging markets - is worth $50 billion today is fanciful. Sources: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-08-03/tiktok-could-be-the-deal-of-the-decade- for-microsoft-ceo-nadella https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/03/microsoft-confirms-talks-to-buy-tiktok-in-us.html https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2020/08/02/tiktok-ban-microsoft-negotiating-purchase- video-app/5568778002/ Level 3 Microsoft could buy TikTok next month – 5th August, 2020 More free lessons at breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2020 2 WARM-UPS 1. TIKTOK: Students walk around the class and talk to other students about TikTok. Change partners often and share your findings. 2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, talk about these topics or words from the article. What will the article say about them? What can you say about these words and your life? on-off / talks / part / TikTok / discussions / ban / personal / details / hands / data / social media / popular / globe / lip-syncing / humorous / worldwide / valuation Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently. 3. SOCIAL MEDIA: Students A strongly believe social media is good for humankind; Students B strongly believe it isn't. Change partners again and talk about your conversations. 4. TECH GIANTS: What do you know about these tech giants? What new product should they create? Complete this table with your partner(s). Change partners often and share what you wrote. qqqqqqq qqqqqqq Microsoft Apple Huawei Alphabet Inc. Amazon Sony 5. TECH: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the word "tech". Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the words into different categories. 6. APPS: Rank these with your partner. Put the best apps at the top. Change partners often and share your rankings. • TikTok • Facebook • Instagram • Messenger • Twitter • Zoom • YouTube • Aarogya Setu Level 3 Microsoft could buy TikTok next month – 5th August, 2020 More free lessons at breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2020 3 VOCABULARY MATCHING Paragraph 1 1. talks a. Formal discussions. 2. giant b. The part of a person that makes them think and feel. 3. halt c. A very large company or organization. 4. ban d. Facts; pieces of information. 5. details e. An end; a sudden stop. 6. mind f. Officially stop someone from doing something. 7. remains g. Stays. Paragraph 2 8. hugely h. A person who takes personal risks to starts businesses. 9. globe i. Funny. 10. lip-syncing j. Very much; to a great extent. 11. humorous k. An estimation of something's worth. 12. entrepreneur l. The world. 13. valuation m. Becoming more important. 14. emerging n. Move the mouth silently in time with a song. Level 3 Microsoft could buy TikTok next month – 5th August, 2020 More free lessons at breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2020 4 BEFORE READING / LISTENING From https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2008/200805-tiktok.html 1. TRUE / FALSE: Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are true (T) or false (F). a. The article said up-down talks between Microsoft and TikTok are off. T / F b. Microsoft has wanted to buy TikTok for many years. T / F c. The US President is worried about the data of 100 million Americans. T / F d. Microsoft would keep the data of US users in the USA. T / F e. TikTok allows users to lip-sync to songs and upload the video. T / F f. The owner of TikTok is a company that started over a decade ago. T / F g. Microsoft has offered $50 million for TikTok. T / F h. The website Bloomberg said TikTok is worth what Microsoft is offering. T / F 2. SYNONYM MATCH: (The words in bold are from the news article.) 1. talks a. prohibit 2. halt b. up-an-coming 3. ban c. stays 4. data d. world 5. remains e. stop 6. hugely f. discussions 7. globe g. price 8. operations h. enormously 9. valuation i. information 10. emerging j. business 3. PHRASE MATCH: (Sometimes more than one choice is possible.) 1. The on- a. the wrong hands 2. parent b. a halt 3. came to c. markets 4. could get into d. in the United States 5. transferred to and remains e. funny faces 6. become hugely f. off talks 7. lip-syncing g. popular 8. making h. for the operations 9. Microsoft is offering ByteDance $50 billion i. company 10. emerging j. to well-known songs Level 3 Microsoft could buy TikTok next month – 5th August, 2020 More free lessons at breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2020 5 GAP FILL From https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2008/200805-tiktok.html The (1) _____________________ talks between Microsoft and the parent parent company of TikTok are back on again. Microsoft has been hands interested in buying (2) _____________________ of TikTok for many part months. The tech giant has been in talks with the mind (3) _____________________ company ByteDance Ltd. Discussions between the two companies came to a (4) _____________________ last halt week when US President Donald Trump suggested that he might remains ban TikTok from the USA. He was worried that the personal on-off (5) _____________________ of over 100 million Americans could get details into the wrong (6) _____________________. President Trump changed his (7) _____________________ at the weekend after the CEO of Microsoft phoned him. Microsoft said it "would ensure that all private data of TikTok's American users is transferred to and (8) _____________________ in the United States." TikTok is the (9) _____________________ social media platform to humorous become hugely popular around the (10) _____________________. Users latest upload very short videos of themselves (11) _____________________ to operations well-known songs, dancing, making funny faces or doing other lip-syncing (12) _____________________ things. TikTok's owner ByteDance is a Beijing-based Internet company founded in 2012 by Chinese worth entrepreneur Zhang Yiming. It now has over 800 million users worldwide (13) _____________________. Microsoft is offering ByteDance $50 globe billion for the (14) _____________________ in the US, Canada, Australia valuation and New Zealand. However the business website Bloomberg disagrees with that (15) _____________________. It said: "The idea that TikTok - without the UK, India or dozens of other emerging markets - is (16) _____________________ $50 billion today is fanciful. Level 3 Microsoft could buy TikTok next month – 5th August, 2020 More free lessons at breakingnewsenglish.com - Copyright Sean Banville 2020 6 LISTENING – Guess the answers. Listen to check. From https://breakingnewsenglish.com/2008/200805-tiktok.html 1) The on-off talks between Microsoft and the ______ TikTok a. patent company of b. parental company of c. pure rent company of d. parent company of 2) Microsoft has been interested in buying ______ a. party of TikTok b. partner of TikTok c. partition of TikTok d. part of TikTok 3) Discussions between the two companies came to a ______ a. hold last week b. shalt last week c. should last week d. halt last week 4) the personal details of over 100 million Americans could get into ______ a.