english through the news 2

English through the news

16.07.2014 Know Howe for English

Know Howe for English

Where do you get your news from?

• Newspapers ?• TV ?• Radio ?• Social Networks?

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What's your favourite section?

• Current affairs, international, politics (hard stuff)• Human (or pet!) interest stories (soft stuff)• Finance• Sport• TV & Showbiz• Lifestyle (fashion, home, health)• Fun (x-words, puzzles, horoscopes)• Travel• Editorial• Other

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How often do you read the news?

• Every day

• Every couple days

• Just at weekends

• Seldom

• Never

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British newspapers love “playful” headlines.

Flapjack whack rap claptrap


Solution: School ban on 'dangerous'

triangle oat snacks



Guess the article

Choose eight key words from interesting article (Bernhard escapes) and write on board.

• S work in teams of 3-4 to make up story including these words.

• When S finish T tells them about original article. • S read out own versions – can be fun and good

introduction to newspapers at more advanced level

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Write a short news report with these words

Bernhard, witness, loose, photo, escaped, hunt, detectives, owner, danger, hunt, hopline, Australia


Did you get what it was about?


http://www.thelocal.de/20120620/43253


Topic-based tasks????

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Spot the mistake



What does this say about men and women?


What’s she doing?


online?What would you never buy on line?What do you regret buying online?

What do you most like to buy online?What would you never buy online?What do you regret buying online?


Give S story Hic and click

with key words blanked out.

• S guess missing words.

• S read news story to check their ideas

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Guess the missing words!

Gossiping Grans

•Use tabloid reports involving bit of scandal. Example The Sun 10.07 Rapper’s Chainsaw Masseur-cre. •Best, however, if S find own scandal articles. Either distribute tabloid newspapers in class or have them “research” online/in German gossip magazines etc. The challenge is to relay info in English – mediation style! •Pre-teach useful phraes for gossiping (Have you heard about? Did you know? And responses “Really?!” I don’t believe it! You don’t say!).•Once everyone has a story to gossip about S circulate, gossiping to each other about their “news”.


What’s going on?


Explain “Cry wolf” incident to S.

Roleplay “perpetrator” and “victim” in talk show. How did you feel about incident?

How do you feel now?

“Audience” discussion: Should youngsters who play “cry wolf” pranks, like the one above, be

punished?


Cry wolf

What’s going on?


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How to remember difference between British newspapers.

• The Independent is read by people who own the newspapers.• The Financial Times is read by people who own the country;

• The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; • The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the

country; • The Times is read by people who actually do run the country; • The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the

country. The Morning Star - a communist paper - is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country;

• The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it already is. • And The Sun is read by people who don’t care who runs the

country, as long as the Page Three Girl has big b***s.

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english through the news 2

Documents

english whats

english guess

english http

english mediation style

s read news story

english topicbased tasks

s guess missing words

words bernhard