1 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!
Ceramella, Nick and Lee, Elizabeth (2008). CambridgeEnglish 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?
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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 techniquesExpected 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