What´s on the news today?

Activity 1 

Read  and answer the following questions in your notebook:

1.What media do you use? Why?

2.What is the difference between newspapers and other media? How do these differences affect its content?

3.What paper do you read? Why?

4.What paper do your other family members read?

5.Why do you think they read them?

6.What specific sections of the paper do you read? Why?

7.What sections don’t you read? Why?

Taken from:

http://www.tc.umn.edu/~rbeach/teachingmedia/student_units/module10/newspaper_unit_mccartney.pdf

Activity 2

Now, let’s review what needs to  be considered when writing a newspaper article.

Visit the Parts of a newspaper video  :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teK_OMP-hCA

Activity 3: Put your knowledge into practice, and for that go to:

http://www.onestopenglish.com/grammar/pdf-content/vocabulary-british-english/british-english-newspapers-and-magazines-worksheet/147106.article


Do not forget to write your answers down.

Activity 4:

Read the article below, find the right sequence (1-5) and finally label its  parts.Write the answers in your notebook.

1.(__)___________________ Daedalus, sobbing from the distant shore where he had landed safely, said, “My last words to Icarus before we left the island was to stay close and not fly too high! He just didn’t listen! Why didn’t he listen to me?” Daedalus and Icarus had been held prisoner by King Minos on the island of Crete, and had been forced to build a labyrinth at the palace of Knossos. It was known to be the most difficult maze in the world to navigate successfully.

2. (__) _________________   Icarus, son of the famous inventor Daedalus, plunged into the Aegean Sea and drowned while attempting to escape from the island of Crete early

yesterday afternoon. His body has yet to be recovered.   

                                                                                          

 3.(__)_________________  High flying escape ends in death 

         

4.(__)__________________  Icarus and his father had made wings from wax and bird feathers they had collected over the years while imprisoned on the island of Crete. They attached the homemade wings to their arms and, using a flapping motion, lifted off from the island shortly before noon. While making their escape, Icarus flew too close to the sun. As a result, the heat melted the wax on his wings which caused the feathers to drop off. The wings collapsed and Icarus fell into the sea and drowned.

 5.(__)__________________  By Robin Sloan

Task 10.

 Pair work Project                

If you notice, the news  article  you have just read  a few minutes ago was created from a greek myth. 

Now you will do something similar,  using a children's  story.

1. Watch  the video and take down notes.

              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfcttsaHTIY

2. Make a plan of your article keeping  in mind the 5 W’s + how 

(i.e. who, what, when, where, why) that you’ve revised in the story of Icarus  and Daedalus.

3. Based on your notes, write your article. Include the five parts .

  Click on the link below to find the newspaper  press tool to create and publish   your article:

                          http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?

id=110&title=

4.  Hand in your plan and your news article for 

evaluation.

You will have two sessions to work on the activities 

and the task.

Teacher tip:

If it happens that in a near future you
want your students to work with newspapers, 
here you have a great link for that:

http://www.eslprintables.com/vocabulary_worksheets/communication_worksheets/
newspapers/

  Now, enjoy a nice song related to the topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOntHtfaeqQ