World of
News Report
Name: Hyung-Jun Jeon
S.I.D.: 200316538
presenter
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Contents
Title / Explanation of project and Language Foci
1
Objectives / Prerequisites2
Procedures (Activities, Follow ups, Assessment)3
Helpful Websites4
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I-1. Explanation of Project
As the world is becoming more smaller - in transport, communication, and information - effect to political, economic, and cultural
Globalization has become a main issue of both discussions and articles in recent times.
To get used to the globalization, students need to access and know how to read an article or listen to the news report
Activities for students to help Understand when accessing an news report
Standard Level - This project is suitable for University students
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I-2. Explanation of Project
1) Summarize
2) Relative Pronoun
3) Five W's and one H
4) Reasoning
5) Write a news report
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ActivitiesActivities
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I-3. Language foci
Future tense - As chairman of the committee, he will help engineer the re-election of the party's president - Tomorrow's weather will be sunny with some clouds
Relative Pronoun - This is a house. Jack built this house. → This is the house that Jack built.
Present perfect tense - The contract has been expired since you came here. - Sally has listened to the pop music since she was in elementary school.
Who, When, Where, Why and How
Auxiliary verbs - Beware that you do not fail. - I don’t need to keep awake, do I?
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II. Objectives
Summarizing and finding key words or main subject of news article and passages
With Relative Pronoun.. - Link two clauses or using some phrases into a single complex clause
Deduce a conclusion of an article through existing information
Students can understand and analyze an article or news
exactly focusing on Five W's and one H
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Ⅲ. Prerequisites
Students can..
Know how to distinguish phrases and clauses
Can understand Parallelism
Students know when to use a Determiner
Know the basic tenses as Present, Future and Past tense
Students have enough listening comprehension skills to listen school news
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Activity 2 - This statement is too long!
Language Skill - Writing, Speaking
Materials - News articles scraped from internet - Explanation cards that are written clauses
Warm-up - Each of the student finds an article from internet which they are interested in (ex, Sports, Politics or Movie Star)
- Students will be in pairs and explains each other why they chose each article
Motivational Activity- Separates long sentences into two sentences- Points out those things that is related to
the subject, will get additional grade points
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Activity 2 - This statement is too long!
who
I know a person
We are looking for someone
is very tall
whichwhom whose
has a dogI know a person who is very tall
We are looking for someone who has a dog
This is the man
Is playing baseball
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Follow-up Activity - Each student makes explanation cards of classmate's characteristic like appearance or personality
- Cards are put in together in front of the class and teacher will pick describes a student
Assessments
- Teacher hands out some printed sheet that has questions of relative pronoun
- Different forms of questions can be presented (ex) 1) (This is the house) + Mozart was born house → This is the house (which) Mozart was born. 2) It is a medieval palace, in (which) tower the king hid during the civil war. → whose
Activity 2 - This statement is too long!
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Language Skill - Writing, Listening
Materials - News articles scraped from internet - Flash cards of Five W's and one H - Some riddles and puzzles
Warm-up - Teacher will give puzzling quiz or riddle
Motivational Activity
- Students will be in pairs and finds another quiz
based on Five W's and one H
Activity 3 - Five W's and one H
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(WHAT) plan to challenge
(WHY) considered a biased poll
(WHEN) 03 December 2007
(WHERE) Russian parliament
(WHO) At least two Russian opposition parties
Activity 3 - Five W's and one H
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Activity 3 - Five W's and one H
Follow-up Activity
- When students have their Five W's and one H of an article, they can summarize the article by using it
Assessments
- Teacher hands out an article or turns video clip of a news report
- Each student underlines or writes important information which is directly related to the main subject based on Five W's and one H
- With those informations students will write a summary of the article
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Ⅴ. Overall Assessment
Objectives - Evaluate students how well they understood each activities and ability to put them in practical
Language Skill - Writing, Listening
Materials - News clips and news paper articles
Procedures 1) Teacher turns video clips of news or put newspaper articles in the black board 2) Students first have to summarize the news report and write main subject or informations 3) Listens to the news and write Who When Where Why What and How of it 4) After that, students can put their opinions and criticize other student’s work
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1) News about – Muze (Kind of I pod)
2) What are explained..
- It’s competitive to “I pod” (I pod killer)
- Has radio and can’t e-mail
- only sending music files to one another
Ⅴ. Overall Assessment
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Ⅵ. Helpful Websites
(http://edition.cnn.com/WORLD/) (http://www.voanews.com) (http://english.chosun.com/) (http://www.google.co.kr/) (http://www.mncast.com/mainFrame.asp) (http://www.youtube.com/).