Task 3 - Listen and check your answers to exercise 2. Which of the qualities from exercise 1 do you think Nellie Bly showed? Justify your answer with evidence from the text - SHS Friends Global 11 page 75

1. Nội dung câu hỏi

At the age of sixteen, Nellie Bly read an article in her local newspaper which argued that women were not able to do the same jobs 1__________ men. Furious, she wrote an anonymous article in reply and sent it to the paper. The paper's editor was so impressed 2__________ he offered

her a job: Nellie was now a journalist!

At that time, female journalists mostly wrote about fashion and gardening, but Nellie had other ideas. She was determined to be an investigative journalist 3__________ wrote about serious issues, like women's rights and the problems of factory workers. But when Nellie accused

companies 4__________ treating workers badly, they refused to buy advertisements in the paper, so the editor stopped Nellie's investigations.

5__________ 1887, Nellie moved to the New York World newspaper, where the owner, Joseph Pulitzer, helped her to do undercover work. For example, Nellie pretended to be insane so that she could become a patient at a psychiatric hospital in New York and find out 6__________ the

conditions there. As a result of Nellie's shocking discoveries, the authorities changed the way they cared 7__________ mentally ill patients. This was probably her greatest success 8__________ an investigative journalist.

2. Phương pháp giải

Nghe và kiểm tra câu trả lời của bạn cho bài tập 2. Bạn nghĩ Nellie Bly đã thể hiện những phẩm chất nào trong bài tập 1? Biện hộ cho câu trả lời của bạn với bằng chứng từ văn bản.

3. Lời giải chi tiết

At the age of sixteen, Nellie Bly read an article in her local newspaper which argued that women were not able to do the same jobs as men. Furious, she wrote an anonymous article in reply and sent it to the paper. The paper’s editor was so impressed that he offered her a job: Nellie

was now a journalist! At that time, female journalists mostly wrote about fashion and gardening, but Nellie had other ideas. She was determined to be an investigative journalist who wrote about serious issues, like women’s rights and the problems of factory workers. But when

Nellie accused companies of treating workers badly, they refused to buy advertisements in the paper, so the editor stopped Nellie’s investigations.

In 1887, Nellie moved to the New York World newspaper, where the owner, Joseph Pulitzer, helped her to do undercover work. For example, Nellie pretended to be insane so that she could become a patient at a psychiatric hospital in New York and find out about the conditions

there. As a result of Nellie’s shocking discoveries, the authorities changed the way they cared for mentally ill patients. This was probably her greatest success as an investigative journalist.

Billy showed three qualities:

(Billy đã thể hiện ba đức tính)

- determination

(quyết tâm)

Thông tin: “Nellie Bly was determined to be an investigative journalist who wrote about serious issues, like women's rights and the problems of factory workers.”

(Nellie Bly quyết tâm trở thành một nhà báo điều tra viết về các vấn đề nghiêm trọng, như quyền của phụ nữ và các vấn đề của công nhân nhà máy.)

- intelligence

(thông minh)

Thông tin: “she pretended to be insane so that she could become a patient at a psychiatric hospital in New York and find out about the conditions there.”

(Cô ấy giả điên để có thể trở thành bệnh nhân tại một bệnh viện tâm thần ở New York và tìm hiểu về điều kiện ở đó.)

- self-confidence

(tự tin)

Thông tin: “She was willing to challenge the status quo and write about serious issues, despite the fact that female journalists at the time were mostly writing about fashion and gardening.”

(Cô ấy sẵn sàng thách thức hiện trạng và viết về những vấn đề nghiêm trọng, mặc dù thực tế là các nhà báo nữ vào thời điểm đó chủ yếu viết về thời trang và làm vườn.)