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Give step-by-step advice on checking what you read, make a point with a question (谁不……呢？), insist with 再……也……, retell an anecdote heard once, and read a reflective passage on reading slowly.

words to say

• 媒体 méitǐ · media
• 报道 bàodào · to report; news report
• 传播 chuánbō · to spread, broadcast
• 来源 láiyuán · source, origin
• 可靠 kěkào · reliable
• 片面 piànmiàn · one-sided
• 评论 pínglùn · to comment; comment
• 证实 zhèngshí · to confirm
• 理性 lǐxìng · rational; reason
• 新闻 xīnwén · news

sentences

• 这条新闻的来源可靠吗？ · Is the source of this news reliable?
• 有的媒体报道很片面。 · Some media reports are one-sided.
• 消息还没有被证实，先不要传播。 · The news hasn’t been confirmed: don’t pass it on yet.
• 看评论的时候，要保持理性。 · When you read the comments, stay level-headed.
• 谁不想第一个知道新闻呢？ · Who doesn’t want to be the first to hear the news?

say it after the voice

• 这条消息还没有被证实，大家最好先不要急着转发和传播。 · This story hasn’t been confirmed yet, so it’s best not to rush to share and spread it.
• 谁不想第一个知道新闻呢？可是快的消息不一定是对的消息。 · Who doesn’t want to hear the news first? But fast news isn’t necessarily true news.
• 标题再吸引人，我们也应该先把整篇文章读完，再发表评论。 · However catchy the headline, we should read the whole article before commenting.
• 只看一家媒体的报道，我们很容易对一件事得出片面的看法。 · If we only read one outlet’s reports, we easily come to a one-sided view of a story.

questions to answer

• 看到没被证实的消息，该不该转发？ · Should you share a story that hasn’t been confirmed?
• 你更喜欢看新闻视频还是读新闻？ · Do you prefer watching news videos or reading the news?
• 如果新闻和朋友说的不一样，你信谁？ · If the news and a friend say different things, who do you believe?

a passage to retell

• A tourist abroad wanted to buy a big watermelon at a market. He didn’t speak the local language, so he took out his phone and asked the price with a translation app. The woman selling the melons listened, said nothing, and took out her own phone. And so the two phones started “chatting” back and forth. The two people just stood beside them nodding, and neither said a word.

a passage to read aloud

现在，我们每天都能看到很多新闻，可是真正读完的却很少。一个吸引人的标题，几句简单的介绍，就让我们觉得自己已经知道了一切。其实，一篇好文章就像一次谈话：作者用了很长时间思考，才把他的想法慢慢地讲给我们听。如果我们只看开头就急着评论，就像别人刚开口，我们就转身走了。片面的看法，往往就是这样产生的。慢慢地读完一篇长文章，也许要花半个小时，但我们得到的不只是一个结论，还有理解一个问题的方法。在消息传播得越来越快的时代，慢下来读，本身就是一种能力。