ENG 17.0.2 / Week 9

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Read this article entitled Newspapers: Broadsheet Vs. Tabloid Take notes and answer the following:- What is a broadsheet? What is a tabloid?- What are some examples of a broadsheet? What are some examples of a tabloid?- What style does a broadsheet use? What style does a tabloid use?


Look at the following file and study some tabloid and broadsheet key characteristics as well as some of their differences!




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Ceramella, Nick and Lee, Elizabeth (2008). Cambridge English for the Media. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

- Exercise 3c, page 8 - Identify tabloid words

- Exercise 3d, page 8 - Identify language devices used in headlines

- Exercise 4a, page 9 - 1, 3, 4

- Exercise 4c, page 9 - Read the two headlines. Which one would match a tabloid newspaper article? Which one would match a broadsheet newspaper article?

- Exercise 4d, page 9 - Identify emotive (tabloid) and neutral (broadsheet) vocabulary

- Exercise 4e, page 9 and 10: Match articles with headlines

- Exercise 4h, page 10 - Identify types of words used and the effect they make

- Exercise 4i page 11 - reading comprehension

- Exercise 4j, page 11 - Students' context similar happenings

- Exercise 5a, 5c, 5d page 11 - Cohesion techniques

Expected outcomes:

Awareness of use of vocabulary in article writing: emphatic vocabulary, passive structures

HOMEWORK

page 14: 7a, 8a, 8c

page 15: 8d, 9a





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1. Planning Article writing, page 15, 9b: summary writing

2. Extra information in article writing, exercise 9d, page 16

3. Exercise 9d, page 16 - choosing best introduction

4. Exercise 9e, page 17 - choosing best conclusion

5. Exercise 9g and h: article writing