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What are the
main stories in today's newspapers?
That all depends on what newspaper you are working
for!
Congratulations!! You have been selected to work for two online news sites. You will have to report on home news and sport and entertainment in Spain. You are a team of two freelance reporters that usually work together. On this ocassion you will have to do your job very urgently because they do not have any other reporters in Spain at this moment. The only problem is that these two news sites have opposite writing styles and they are addressed to very different readers. One is a popular news site and the other is a quality one.
- You will be working together, but each of you will have a different role in the team.
- You will have to write
two reports for each news site, that is, one about sport or entertainment and
one about home or political news for each media site, but as you are writing
articles for two opposing news sites, you will have to rewrite the news twice
or send different pieces of news to them. It will mean four articles in
total. Follow the process described below.
. Read all directions before you start. Use the resources listed below to search the news sites and find some help to write your articles.
. Find a partner to work with and decide who is going to play each of the following role :
- politics and home news reporter
- sport and entertainment reporter
. Visit the resources selected in this table and decide which news sites you are working for. Select one in each column:
You have to work as a team because you have to create your page for each news site together.
. Discuss the language and style characteristics that you are going to take into account for each news website.
. Select the current Spanish stories about which you are going to write. You can use Spanish news sites to select them. Save the pictures that you want to include in your reports.
. Use a word processing program to write and illustrate your articles (remember that you will have to create two different pages, one for each news site).
Once you have finished your reports submit them as an attachment
by e-mail.
News Sites and Newspapers
Online
BBC
News
Daily Telegraph
The Guardian
Times online
CNN News
Daily Mirror
The Sun Newspaper Online
Ananova News
Daily Express
News of the World
UK
Newspapers Online and Worldwide Newspapers in English
European News
Sites in Original Languages
Some articles to help you write your reports
Structure
of news writing
Language
of news writing
Language
of the article- Grid
Table
about the 5 W's and an H of the story
How to Write a News Article
Write a Good Press Release
Newspaper
articles should contain the following items
Each team will make two written projects. Students' work should be original. Spelling and grammar should be correct. Students should write a short introduction explaining which online news sites they chose to work for and why they chose them.
Eventually, students have used the information that they obtained from reading the news to to understand the language and structure of news writing and to write and illustrate their own reports.
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