This document outlines activities for an English day focused on using news sources. It discusses where students get their news, wordplays and headlines in British newspapers. Students are asked to write a news report using provided words. Groups make up a story using key words from a sample news article. An activity called "Gossiping Grans" has students share tabloid news stories in English. Other activities include imagining one's own kingdom and a break is scheduled. Suggested materials include a newspaper activity book from Cornelsen Verlag.

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English through the news

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Where do you get your news
from?
• Newspapers ?
• TV ?
• Radio ?
• Social Networks?

4. Wordplays
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5. Seven Won
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6. British newspapers love “playful”
headlines.
Flapjack whack
rap claptrap
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7. Solution:
School ban on 'dangerous'
triangle oat snacks
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8. Write a short news report with
these words
Bernhard, witness, loose, photo,
escaped, hunt, detectives, owner,
danger, hunt, hopline, Australia
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9. Did you get what it was about?
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http://www.thelocal.
de/20120620/43253

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Guess the article
Choose eight key words from interesting article
(Bernhard escapes) and write on board.
• S work in teams of 3-4 to make up story
including these words.
• When S finish T tells them about original article.
• S read out own versions – can be fun and good
introduction to newspapers at more advanced
level

11. Gossiping Grans
•Use tabloid reports involving bit of scandal. Example The Sun 10.07
Rapper’s Chainsaw Masseur-cre.
•Best, however, if S find own scandal articles. Either distribute tabloid
newspapers in class or have them “research” online/in German gossip
magazines etc. The challenge is to relay info in English – mediation
style!
•Pre-teach useful phraes for gossiping (Have you heard about? Did you
know? And responses “Really?!” I don’t believe it! You don’t say!).
•Once everyone has a story to gossip about S circulate, gossiping to
each other about their “news”.
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13. What’s going on?
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14. Imagine your own kingdom
US dad takes unclaimed African kingdom so daughter can be princess
•
W
hatw
ould
yourflag
look
like?
•W
hatwould
yourm
otto
be?
•W
hatlaws
w
ould
you
pass?
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Useful materials
“Newspaper articles to get Teenagers
Talking”
Upper Intermediate/Advanced, Cornelsen Verlag.

16. Break!
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