News assignment

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

News

You are going to make a news broadcast.

You can choose whether you want to make a radio broadcast  (only record your voice) or a TV broadcast ( film yourself ). 

Groups

- When you want to do this assignment on your own, you have to cover the weatherforecast

- When you want to pair up, you will need to cover 2 items.

- If you want to work in a group of 3, you will need to cover 3 items.

- The maximum group size is four people. Cover 4 items or let 1 person be the presentor. 

Speaking

You can find help with completing a speaking assignment from the handout of your teacher. There you will receive an explanation of the following points:

- speaking (presenting ...)

- to gather information

- collaboration

Grammar

For extra support on the future tense (which you will need for you weatherforecast) look on page 101.

The other tenses that you'll need to use, were covered in previous chapters.

The news

4 Examples of different news items:

- Serious news item (go to the slide 'accident') 

- Funny / crazy item 

(it doesn't have to be realistic, it can be fake news)

- Showbiz item

- The weather

Extra help: Weather

Chapter 6, year 1 weather forecast > give us the weather forecast of this week (past, present and future)

you will receive a hand-out with useful phrases and other extras

Extra help: Accident

Chapter 6: Accident/ tragedy happened > report or interview

        (on the scene) use chapter 4 for interview questions.

read interesting dialogues on page 247 and use the yellow pages to find the right words/phrases.  

Extra help: Showbiz

Chapter 4/5 : showbiz news > inform your audience and give your (expert) opinion on latest celebrity news/track/film or series.

Use page 141 to get an idea of how the dialogue works and page 294 to create the right questions to ask. You can use the yellow pages for the right vocabulary. 

Tips

- Watch the news (BBC, BBC newsround, etc...) and write down useful phrases.

Things you will be assessed on:

- Whether you've met all the requirements

- Use of language

- Pronunciation and fluency

- Delivery

- Dialogue structure

Hand-in

You will have to hand-in your broadcast via 'SOM'

tip:

When your file is too big use www.wetransfer.com

(you will need an private email address plus your teacher's mail address). Airdrop is also a possibility

Questions