Stepping Stones Theme 5 A: Watching

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vmbo t
• Leerjaar 3

Learning goals

By the end of this lesson:

You can investigate a news item and check if it is objective or subjective.

Road map

• Learning goals
• Warm-up
• Strategy
• Watching


• Review

Warm-up

Bijvoeglijk naamwoord ->

Adjective

Strategy

Objective -> focus on facts

Subjective -> personal opinions and interpretations

                        -> could be unreliable

Framing -> hoe je iets neerzet

This news item is

Objective / subjective, because.......

This news item is objective, because the news presenter and the journalist tell the audience about something that happened with Meghan and Harry. They don’t give their opinions.

Piers Morgan clip

Interview from Australia (morning TV) with Piers Morgan (British journalist, TV personality)

Several topics are brought up:

What are the main ones?

Royal family issue

Fire in Australia: critical about PM Scott Morrison behaviour

Boris Johnson’s leadership & Brexit

Piers Morgan clip

Which topics can you remember?

Royal family issue

Fire in Australia: critical about PM Scott Morrison behaviour

Boris Johnson’s leadership & Brexit

Cricket

Convicts

Royal family issue

Fire in Australia: critical about PM Scott Morrison behaviour

Boris Johnson’s leadership & Brexit

Piers Morgan clip

Which topics can you remember?

Royal family issue

Fire in Australia: critical about PM Scott Morrison behaviour

Boris Johnson’s leadership & Brexit

This news item is

Objective / subjective, because.......

This news item is subjective, because the news presenter and the journalist talk about what they think of Meghan Markle. It seems more like they are gossiping than showing a news item.

Vocabulary - Homework

Telephone game

• Make two rows, on opposite sides of the class
• The person in front receives a sentence and whispers this to the next person in line. Keep on passing the message on until the last person.
• The last in the row says the message out loud.

He who laughs last, didn’t get it.

You’re only as good as your last haircut.

You are what you eat, so avoid nuts.

Bread always falls buttered side down.

Review

Can you give an example of a news item that is:

• objective
• subjective

Looking ahead

Homework: ex 8 (p. 63)

B. Theme words