MYP3 Lesson 6/7

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MYP3 Lesson 6/7

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Unit 2

Is it true that you are what you read?

Content

1. Conventions of news reports

2. Headlines

3. Active vs Passive

4. Feature Article

Conventions of News Reports

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Unit 2

Newsbank Activity

Grammar

Active vs. Passive

Activity: Headlines

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Activity: Headlines

1. What is the effect of the chosen headlines? How does passive or active voice influence this?

2. Which newspaper headlines are broadsheet and which are tabloid?

Activity: Feature Article

A feature article typically focuses on a special event, topical issue, place or person. Articles of this type have many features in common with news reports (for instance, the use of direct and reported speech and relative clauses), but tend to be more detailed so are usually longer.

Activity: Feature article

Analyse the following article using the prompts and questions.

article

Activity: Feature Article (Part II)

Use the Internet to find some feature articles from International (English language) newspapers. Choose two different ones and download the text (either as pdf or copy/paste on a document)

Activity

Pick one of the articles and work on the following questions: 

Analysing Feature Article

Get together with someone and share your article.

Talk about it together.

After the first round we do it again but in different pairs