Week 6 Session 1

1. iPod project: Task 4: READ OUT and record with VOICE Memos, listen and repeat as many times as you need to, then when you are happy, RECORD with DROPVOX. DUE DATE: SUNDAY EVENING



2. Articles:

(a) Newspaper articles (Cyprus Weekly, Cyprus Mail, Herald Sun, The Age, etc.)

Skiers take advantage of bitterly cold weather

Industrial robot arm learns new hobby: human portraiture

Memorial Tourney set


(b) Magazine articles

Virtual Santa

Well-Known Models Of Nike Basketball Shoes


(c) Academic articles


Task:

Write a review of about 5 paragraphs:

What are the characteristics of each type of article? How do we recognise them and distinguish them from each other?

Compare: similarities and differences


Articles review

1. Title

2. Paragraph 1: introduction

Description of characteristics of What an article is:

short text of a certain number of length
What an article is not (very long text as a novel, not a text I send to a friend of mine to let him know how I am, not a reciped which one would read to make a cake)
Common characteristics of articles: title, subtitles, name of author, date, name of newspaper or journal, divided into a number of paragraphs or section´s, there are different types of articesl, examples
Different characteristics: topic, purpose (reason why it is written) audience/readership (people who would be interested in reading it)

3. Paragraph 2: Description and chracteristics of newspaper articles

Description and chracteristics of newspaper articles: topics, audience, way presentation

4. Paragraph 3: Magazine articles

Description and chracteristics of magazine articles: topics, audience, way presentation

5. paragraph 4: Academic articles

Description and chracteristics of academic articles: topics, audience, way presentation

6. Paragrpha 5: similarities and differences

compare the three different types: similar characteristics / different characteristics

7. Conclusion

summing up: main points

7. Name of author, name of newspaper or journal, date