S1 ENG Activity 2.1: Listen and Write

There are different sources of information. Each of these sources presents information in different ways. Some of these sources are reference books, dictionaries, textbooks, atlases, maps, newspapers, magazines, radios, television, the Internet, newsletters and many others. We need information to know about the things around us. If we are to excel in whatever we do, we need information. At school much of the information we need is found in the textbooks and in the reference books which are found in the library. We access information by reading and listening to those who have read it like our teachers. Information makes us knowledgeable. Without knowledge we are as good as dead because knowledge is power!

1. Why is it said that, “knowledge is power”?
2. Which are the different sources of information mentioned in the passage?

3.  What is the difference between a magazine and a newspaper?

4.  What is a newsletter?