Here are some student news stories written after watching the movie extracts: "Anna Scott spotted leaving William's flat early this morning" By Emma Dupont Hollywood superstar Anna Scott was seen leaving Notting Hill bookshop owner William Thacker's flat at 6am this morning. Neighbors reported hearing loud voices coming from the flat late into the night. When confronted by paparazzi outside the building, Scott refused to comment on why she had spent the night at Thacker's home. Thacker also declined to give details about their relationship. Could this chance meeting turn into a real romance between the ordinary Londoner and the biggest movie star in the world? Only time will tell... "Major clash between Anna

1. SEQUENCE EN
COLLABORATION
AVEC L' ASSISTANT
DE LANGUE:
La presse anglaise populaire:
classe de première 2013/2014

2. Présentation des objectifs de la séquence:
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Support: Film: Notting Hill + tabloids: The Daily Mail and the Sun
Activités langagières: CO+EO+CE+EE+EEI
Objectifs conceptuels:
Lexique: vocabulaire relatif au monde la presse populaire vocabulaire relatif aux stars,
cinéma, à la célébrité
Grammaire: notions: contraste + regret + probabilité
verbes de perception + pronoms relatifs + both + should (have +EN)
Phonologie: travail sur l'intonation des questions ouvertes et fermées + intonation des "tags"
Pragmatique: cohésion: travail sur les mots de liaison cohérence: travail sur l'agencement
des idées: logique des arguments/ idées dans l'agencement de l'article de presse
Culturel: deux mondes en contraste: a) monde populaire de Notting hill
b) monde hollywoodien de strass et paillettes
Objectif méthodologique: pre-writing - writing first draft - revising – proofreading - editing
Problématique: Notion: Forms of Power: The power of the language
Tâche finale: écriture d'un article de presse à scandale racontant la rencontre de Anna Scott
et des photographes après une nuit passée chez son petit ami William.

3. Travail en parallèle entre le professeur (A)
et l'assistant (B)
3
A: travail sur les deux extraits de films: Notting
Hill:
•B: Brainstorming lexical: newspapers and
magasines
a) the opening scene
b) at William's: tha paparrazzi
Activity n°1:
Activity n°2:
Travail de l'assistant a commencé en léger décalage avec celui du professeur
Activity n°3:
Activity n°4:
Activity n°5:
Activity n°6:

4. 4
B -Identify the different parts of a newspaper story
* the Headline * a good Quote * the Byline
* the Body * the Lead * the Ending
- Identify the different sections
* Advice/ Comment sections
* Joke sections
* Advertising
* Clothes section
B: Workshop with the language assistant: reading and
take notes from your observation
Reading of a couple of tabloids bought at the newsagent in Briançon.
From this reading activity, pick out what characterizes a tabloid and a tabloid
article:
news featuring sex escapades, crime, violence, scandals of all sorts; focus is on
celebrities, scandals are focused on rich and famous people's lives, stories cover
problems of lives of celebrities
interesting, shocking and appealing paragraphs
sentences of 16 -30 short words + small paragraphs
columns are narrow and easy to read: small amount of writing
phrases do not repeat themselves
stories are personal

5. 5
B -Identify the different parts of a newspaper story
* the Headline * a good Quote * the Byline
* the Body * the Lead * the Ending
- Identify the different sections
* Advice/ Comment sections
* Joke sections
* Advertising
* Clothes section
B: Workshop with the language assistant: reading and
take notes from your observation
Reading of a couple of tabloids bought at the newsagent in Briançon.
From this reading activity, pick out what characterizes a tabloid and a tabloid
article:
words used: colourful adjectives and extreme adjectives
Pick out extreme words with the help of the assistant and find the equivalents in a
more neutral register.
fury (anger) boost (encourage) quit (resign)
controversy (turmoil) bar, ban (exclude) soar (rise)
clash (disagreement) threat (possibility) hate (dislike)
dumped (dismissed) quiz (question) broke down into tears
(eyes watered) split (division) oust (replace)

6. 6
B -Identify the different parts of a newspaper story
* the Headline * a good Quote * the Byline
* the Body * the Lead * the Ending
- Identify the different sections
* Advice/ Comment sections
* Joke sections
* Advertising
* Clothes section
B: Workshop with the language assistant: reading and
take notes from your observation
Reading of a couple of tabloids bought at the newsagent in Briançon.
From this reading activity, pick out what characterizes a tabloid and a tabloid
article:
many pictures: huge amount of pictures
does not present a lot of facts
weird stories based on true stories, however most of the time it is fake, made up
and really exaggerated
printed on small papers and folded

7. A: Travail abordé par le professeur:
Methodology: writing a news story
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4 - Proofreading and editing: check for careless errors: pay careful attention to
the spelling of names. have your classmate review your work.
Write the final copy of your story.
1 -Pre-writing: planning your writing
a) Select your subject: write about a news worthy subject, something
important interesting or unusual that your readers will want to read about.
b) Collect details (here from the two short movie extracts). A good starting
point is to ask the 5 W's and H -: Who? What? where? When? Why? How?
(observations are important)
2 -Writing the first draft
a) Write the lead or 1st paragraph: begin with the most important or
interesting detail. If at all possible, put a person in the lead paragraph.
b) Write the main part of your story: remember that the most important
information is usually stated early in basic news stories. try to leave your
readers with something to think about in the ending.
3 - Revising: improving your writing: review your work: make sure you have
included all of the important facts and details in your story. make sure your
information is in the best possible order.

8. A + B: Séance commune avec l'assistant et le
professeur
8
Travaux d'élèves: atelier d'écriture avec l'assistant et le professeur
* élèves sont divisés en groupes de travail
* travail collaboratif sur plusieurs tables dans la classe
* affichage des productions au CDI (semaine de la presse) et dans la classe.
Renvoi aux productions d'élèves.