week 7

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 4

Lesson objectives

Linking words

• You know what the meaning of their connection is.
• You are able to apply them in sentences.

Linking Words -  9 categories

1. Additions
2. Contrast
3. Comparison
4. Cause-and-effect
5. Reason
6. Conclusion
7. Condition
8. Illustration
9. Time / sequence

Lesson objectives

• Vocabulary: revision (25-34)  and practise (35-36)
• News project: understanding categories

recap lists 25-34

keep your book closed

Translate: sight

1. bezienswaardigheid
2. visum
3. onderneming
4. vergezicht

Translate: avalanche

1. vlakte
2. aardbeving
3. gletscher
4. lawine

Translate: pond

Translate: high tide

Write a sentence with
to drain - swamp

lists 35 & 36

Open your book and read through the two lists.

Write down the words you find difficult.

Write a sentence with
forecast - shower

Write a sentence with
violent - suspect

NEWS LITERACY

You know:

• news categories
• news related words

You will practise with:

• understanding the news
• judging news sources

                                                          

                                                                    

What is news?

Give your answer in a full English sentence.

What is news?

• Information or reports about recent events.
• Previously unknown information.
• Newly received or noteworthy information, especially about recent or important events. 
  

News is ...

• what an editor thinks is news
• dog bites man vs. man bites dog

Recap: news categories?

• International news
• National news
• Local news

--> it's mainly about who views it

A Dutch person watches the NOS in Spain: national news

What is a scoop?

Give your answer in a full English sentence.

What is a scoop?

• A story or piece of news discovered and published by one news media before all others.

What is an exclusive?

Give your answer in a full English sentence.

What is an exclusive?

• When a news organisation is the only one to report the news.
•  A story that can take an audience away from competing news organizations.
  

What is a headline?

Give your answer in a full English sentence.

What is a headline?

• a head of a newspaper story or article usually printed in large type and giving the gist of the story or article that follows.

• headlines, plural: front-page news 
• "The scandal made headlines."

How to deal with the news:

- Is all news reliable?

- What's a reliable news source? 

- What influences reporting the news?

Is all news reliable?

What's a reliable news source?

What influences reporting the news?

Examples of online news sources

www.cnn.com

www.foxnews.com

www.bbc.com

www.news.sky.com

www.dutchnews.nl

www.nltimes.nl

Assignment in pairs

• Compare the opening pages of CNN.com and FOXnews.com
• Find three differences on the front pages that you think are important.
  
• Why do you think the two companies present the news differently?

P.O. News Project (examendossier)

• Instructions on Magister.Me  > Opdrachten
• Deadline: 20 March

Pass 2 reading + 2 listening tasks.

Newsitems I am going to discuss in my PO

How do you find out whether your news is reliable or not?

Verification 

Independence

Accountability

(VIA)

VIA

In your own words: What's verification?

Verification:

the act of verifying something 

(= proving or checking that it exists, or is true or correct):

In your own words: What's indepencende?

Independence:

not subject to control by others

In your own words: what's accountability?

Accountability:

the fact of being responsible for what you do and able to give a satisfactory reason for it

Examples:

• https://www.facebook.com/pluginVNN/
• Fact Checker: President Trump made 19,127 false or misleading claims in 1,226 days
• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/factcheck/fact-checker-president-trump-made-19127-false-or-misleading-claims-in-1226-days/ar-BB14RCpH  

Independence
Can a news company really be independent, do you think?