Tabloid G3

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

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How do you keep up with the news? Which news outlets do you use?

Tabloids

• Reader with assignments on Moodle
• Writing different tabloid texts in class
• Test (2) on Wednesday 13 December

Hard news versus soft news

A. Give five examples of events/issues that require hard news treatment.

B. Give five examples of events/issues that require soft news treatment.

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Spot hard and soft news on the covers of today's papers.

3C Tabloids

• Reader with assignments on Moodle
• Writing different tabloid texts in class
• Test (2) on Wednesday 20 December

3D Tabloids

• Reader with assignments on Moodle
• Writing different tabloid texts in class
• Test (2) on Friday 15 December

Lesson 2

I can: 

• use exaggeration, understatement and puns in my writing.

• write in the past tense. Writing tabloid articles requires much writing in the past tense

Exaggeration and Understatement

Writing your own news story

• Read the article in the reader (page 5-8). 
•  Then write a news story about something which you care about. 
• Use at least 2 puns, 2 understatements and 2 exaggerations.
• Make sure you use the past tenses correctly. 
• Your article should be about 200-250 words. 
• Hand in at the end of class.

3D Tabloids

• Reader with assignments on Moodle
• Writing different tabloid texts in class
• Test (2) on Friday 15 December

Sports

I can: 

• use ten new extreme adjectives

• produce a commentary of a goal or some other great feat or win

Horoscope

I am: 

• familiar with and use the language of making predictions and giving advice and having a laugh.

Find extreme adjectives

• Good
• Quick
• Exciting
• Tough
• Scared
• Strong

Assignment

• Come up with a sports event on which you provide the commentary. 
• If you are not into sports you can also do a commentary on an everyday life scene like we saw in the video.
  
• Play the scene on your laptop while you do the live commentary. Work in groups of four.

Assignment

• Work in pairs. 
• Write a horoscope for another pair in which you make predictions about what will happen to them next week.