Tabloid G3 Lesson Series

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

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• How many bones are in a pair of human feet?
• How many moons does planet mars have?
• What is the length of a blue whale?

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• How many bones are in a pair of human feet?
• 26 bones x 2 feet
• How many moons does planet mars have?
• 2 moons (Phobos and Deimos)
• What is the length of a blue whale?
• 30 meters

www.frontpages.com

How do you keep up with the news? Which news outlets do you use?

Tabloids

• Reader with assignments on Moodle
• Writing different tabloid texts in class
• Test (2) on Thursday 19 September

Hard news versus soft news

A. Give five examples of events/issues that require hard news treatment.

B. Give five examples of events/issues that require soft news treatment.

www.dailymail.co.uk

Lesson 2

I can: 

• use exaggeration, understatement and puns in my writing.

• write in the past tense. Writing tabloid articles requires much writing in the past tense

Exaggeration and Understatement

Writing your own news story

• Read the article in the reader (page 5-8). 
• Then write a news story about something which you care about. 
• Use at least 2 puns, 2 understatements and 2 exaggerations.
• Make sure you use the past tenses correctly. 
• Your article should be about 200 words. 

Writing your own news story

• Read the article in the reader (page 5-8). 
• Then write a news story about something which you care about. 
• Use at least 2 puns, 2 understatements and 2 exaggerations.
• Make sure you use the past tenses correctly. 
• Your article should be about 200 words. 

Tabloids

• Reader with assignments on Moodle
• Writing different tabloid texts in class
• Test (2) on Friday 15 December

Tabloids

• Reader with assignments on Moodle
• Writing different tabloid texts in class
• Test (2) on Thursday 19 September

exaggerations, understatements, puns

• My daughter has completely lost it.
• There was a storm at the voting booth.
• Manchester won with a small difference of 14-0.
• Harry styles chased from his penthouse: a ratty way to go!
• A-purr-ently, Larry was able to sneak out of a window.

spelling grammar

1. Some citizens don't bother dog poo, but some do!
2. This year of school on Cygnus started with a bang. A C-4 bomb was detonated.
3. Mrs Heineken her hedgehog is missing!
4. The engine of the plains use lots of CO2.
5. On March 23rd, billionaire Richard Bones build a cannon.
6. Patrick didn't knew what to do.

Sports

I can: 

• use ten new extreme adjectives
• produce a commentary of sports event in pairs

Find extreme adjectives

Example: good - fantastic

• good
• exciting
• tough
• scared
• unpleasant
• sad

Here is a list to help!

Assignment

• Provide the commentary for a sports event. 
• Play the scene on your laptop while you do the live commentary. Work in pairs.
• Make use of extreme adjectives in your text.

Assignment

• Come up with a sports event on which you provide the commentary. 
• If you are not into sports you can also do a commentary on an everyday life scene like we saw in the video.
  
• Play the scene on your laptop while you do the live commentary. Work in groups of four.

Hamster race Headline

• Come up with a catchy headline (or a couple more).
• Include a pun, exaggeration, or understestament.
  

Tabloids

• Test (2) on Thursday 19 September
• You are going to write two tabloid articles.
• You divide the different categories among your group.

Horoscope

I am: 

• familiar with and use the language of making predictions and giving advice and having a laugh.

www.bbc.com

Assignment

• Work in pairs. 
• Write a horoscope for another pair in which you make predictions about what will happen to them this week.