Discuss the examples as a class. Students then work in pairs to complete the table. Answers Cultural references:
Choose That Girl! Madge jets to Africa to adopt girl (Madonna
had a song called
Who’s that girl? )
Alliteration:
Love’s Labour’s Lost
Emphatic language:
Family’s pet dog butchered (butchered = killed brutally)
3 PhotocoPiable UNIT 1 Newspapers Teacher’s Notes Cambridge English for the Media Cambridge University Press 2009 www.cambridge.org/elt/englishforthemedia
Note The comedian who was criticised was Sacha Baron Cohen who played the
character of rapper Ali G (and is also famous for the character Borat).
b Check students’ understanding of