Canceled online

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Guess the words (1)Vocabulary exercise
4. 4Guess the words (2)Vocabulary exercise
5. 5Check the wordsVocabulary
6. 6Check your understandingReading comprehension
7. 7Listen: the ad that went wrongListening comprehension
8. 8Use the new wordsVocabulary exercise
9. 9What did they say?Grammar exercise
10. 10Reporting verbs and their patternsGrammar rule
11. 11Report the storyGrammar exercise
12. 12Say it naturallySpeaking practice
13. 13Tell the storySpeaking practice
14. 14Let's discussDiscussion
15. 15Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: closest meaningVocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: reporting verbsGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: a news reportDiscussion

Words

• call out/ˌkɔːl ˈaʊt/

  to criticize someone publicly for something they said or did

• go viral/ˌɡoʊ ˈvaɪrəl/

  to spread very quickly online

• backlash/ˈbæklæʃ/

  a strong, negative reaction from a lot of people

• reputation/ˌrepjuˈteɪʃn/

  what people think about someone or something

• hold accountable/ˌhoʊld əˈkaʊntəbl/

  to make someone take responsibility for what they did (hold someone accountable)

• boycott/ˈbɔɪkɑːt/

  to refuse to buy or use something as a protest (also a noun)

• outrage/ˈaʊtreɪdʒ/

  very strong anger, especially about something that seems unfair

• resurface/ˌriːˈsɜːrfɪs/

  to appear again after a long time

• sponsor/ˈspɑːnsər/

  a company that gives money to a person or an event in return for advertising (also a verb)

• second chance/ˌsekənd ˈtʃæns/

  an opportunity to try again after a mistake

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Let's talk about social media.

1. How do you react when you see an angry argument online? Do you join in, watch or scroll past?
2. Have you ever stopped buying from a company because of something it did or said?
3. What does it mean when people say that someone has been "canceled"?

Grammar rule

Reporting verbs and their patterns

A reporting verb tells us how something was said. Each verb has its own pattern:

Pattern	Verbs	Example
+ to + verb	agree, refuse, promise, offer, threaten	The mayor promised to fix the roads.
+ someone + to + verb	urge, encourage, advise, warn, remind, invite	My doctor advised me to rest. · warn someone not to + verb
+ -ing	admit (or admit to), deny, suggest, recommend	He denied taking the money.
+ preposition + -ing	apologize for, insist on, accuse someone of, blame someone for	They blamed the storm for causing the delays.
+ that + clause	admit, deny, claim, insist, promise, warn, explain, argue	She claimed that the photo was fake.

In American English, suggest and recommend don't take someone + to: not She suggested me to wait. Say She suggested waiting, or She suggested (that) I wait. You will practice these in the unit's grammar lesson.