Cutting Edge Advanced Module 10
Group A
Below are some of the top 100 hoaxes on TV, in newspapers and on the internet. What do you think the stories were?
The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
Instant Color TV
Alabama Changes Value of Pi
The Left-Handed Whopper
Body of Nessie Found
Metric Time
The Case of the Interfering Brassieres
The Sydney Iceberg
The 26-Day Marathon
Drunk Driving on the Internet
Big Ben Goes Digital
Dogs to be painted white
Guinness Mean Time
Smellovision
FatSox
Corporate Tattoos
Ask your teacher about one that you think you have guessed but aren’t sure about.
Write a one-sentence summary of at least six of the stories above, using your original guesses if you still don’t know the real stories.
Read the headlines and summaries to another group and see if they can guess how much you made up.
Group B
Below are some of the top 100 hoaxes on TV, in newspapers and on the internet, plus some from 2010. What do you think the stories were?
M3 Zebra Crossing
World War II Bomber Found on Moon
Weeping Lenin
Diamond-Encrusted Grenades
Viagra for Hamsters
Ferrets Used to Lay Broadband Cables
Translate for Animals Android App Released
Alien Abduction Insurance Offered
Google to Digitise World’s People
Coldplay to Record in Zero Gravity
Youtube Launch Text-Only Mode
Mobile Phones Attacked by Butterflies
World’s First Flavoured Newspaper
Waterloo and City Line to be Pedestrianised
Prescription Windscreens Launched
Ask your teacher about one that you think you have guessed but aren’t sure about.
Write a one-sentence summary of at least six of the stories above, using your original guesses if you still don’t know the real stories.
Read the headlines and summaries to another group and see if they can guess how much you made up.
Choose at least six of the common headline words from below and write a headline and a one–line summary of the (imaginary) story for each one.
- Alert
- Appear
- Back
- Battle
- Besiege
- Case
- Charge
- Crackdown
- Curb
- Cut
- Demand
- Deny
- Doubt
- Dozens
- Duo
- Enquiry
- Envoy
- Eye
- Fight
- Hearing
- Hike
- Hike
- Imminent
- Ink
- Lull
- Offer
- Pen
- Probe
- Protest
- Reject
- Remain
- Reveal
- Risk
- Rumour
- Safeguard
- Seek
- Sentence
- Spared
- Stand trial
- Stun
- Target
- Threat
- Unrest
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