Who Says So?

A ready-to-teach B1+ Academic English lesson on reporting verbs for citing sources, built around research on social media and misinformation.

Students read a short literature review about fake news and find 8 reporting verbs: argue, claim, suggest, state, report, explain, find and show. They learn the pattern Author (year) + verb + that, how to choose a verb that shows how strong or certain an idea is, and why et al. takes a plural verb. Then they race in teams to fix mistakes, report research in an information gap, mingle and write short citations.

What's inside

• 12 colourful slides to project, with answer keys straight after each activity
• 4-page A4 exercise sheet: teacher's notes, answer key and a 2-page student worksheet
• Prediction lead-in, guided discovery, team race, A/B information gap and mingle
• Easier and Harder options, plus an exit ticket and free homework links

Great for EAP, pre-university and foundation-year students. Research is sourced from the Reuters Institute, MIT and published studies, with full references.

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