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5. Students are then given time to write sentences on slips of paper representing description as well as interpretation of the pictures. The teacher will collect the slips and redistribute them to groups of students who will analyse the sentences and group them under the two categories: description and interpretation. 5. Headlines Rationale After students have read or listened to a text, they need to analyse it for its main meaning. One way to do this is to encourage them to summarise the text in a few words. It’s also a useful way to develop their note-taking skills. A fun way to do this is to have students read or listen to short texts from a newspaper or radio or TV news and write a headline. Further discussion of the topic of headlines will lead to the concept of “clickbait”, which will be analysed with examples, with a view to raising awareness towards these unethical journalism strategies. This serves to teach students how to see beyond the alluring headlines and exercise their own critical thinking when exposed to media messages. Procedure 1 The teacher shows students some headlines from different newspapers or news websites. For each one, the students are asked to say what they think the news story was about. Afterwards the teacher asks them to say what the purpose of a headline is. (Possible answer: To summarise the story and attract the reader’s interest) 2 The teacher gives out some short news stories or plays three or four short recordings of different news items. For each one, students try to write a news headline which summarises the main meaning of the text. Recordings of news items should be played at least twice to give students the chance to understand all the details. 3 The teacher asks students to work in groups and compare their headlines to see if they summarised similar information or used similar words from the text. 4 The teacher gives students examples of headlines and asks them how familiar they are with the wording and how likely they are to read the articles with these headlines.  Man tries to hug a wild lion. You won’t believe what happens next.  21 stars who ruined their faces due to plastic surgery  Man divorced his wife after knowing what is in this photo  15 hilarious tweets of stupid people that make you think: “Do these people even exist?”  Can you solve this ancient riddle? 90% of the people gave the wrong answer  Supermodels use these simple tricks to stay young. Find out their secrets  You might suffer from a serious condition if you experience these symptoms  15 perfect tweets that sum up student life (no 13 is hilarious) The teacher asks students to look for definitions of “clickbait”. Once the students understand that these titles use specific strategies to attract attention and encourage visitors to access specific sites, they are asked to try and formulate the strategies illustrated in the examples above. 12