For this unit Refers to Student’s Book pages Writing headlines

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Cambridge English for the Media   Cambridge University Press 2009     
www.cambridge.org/elt/englishforthemedia
UNIT 3 Magazines Teacher’s Notes

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Students work individually to make notes for their stories. They may discuss their 
notes with a partner if they need inspiration. Avoid discussing students’ stories 
at this stage, as they will have a chance to write them properly later.
     
Before you begin … 
Check students’ understanding of 
lightning strikes twice
 and 
to weather the 
storm.
 Answers
A person being struck by lightning is considered to be an extremely rare 
and unlucky event, so being struck twice in one’s lifetime is seen as almost 
unbelievably unlucky. The idea of lightning striking twice is used metaphorically to 
describe repeated bad luck, for example 
lightning never strikes twice
, or 
lightning 
really does strike twice.
 
The idiom