Welcome to our newsroom. CMM news need your reporting skills to complete these 4 assignments for the week. Good luck!
1) RADIO: READING + PRONUNCIATION
Have a look to this week's news. Choose one and practise the pronunciation. You have to record your piece of news for our radio bulletin (max. 30 seconds). Upload it on https://vocaroo.com/ and share it (and paste it on your Powerpoint).
- American: https://edition.cnn.com/
- British: https://www.bbc.com/
- New Zealand: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/
- Andorra: https://all-andorra.com/
- Spain: https://english.elpais.com/
Radio news 2 1.5 1 0.5 Pronunciation Perfect Good Average Poor Intonation Journalist style Good Average Poor Rhythm Right speed Good Average Poor Content Suitable Good Average Poor Accuracy Totally Good Average Poor
TIPS for each section:
- PRONUNCIATION: mind -ed termination, sounds /r/ and plosives and aspirations (/p-t-k/).
- INTONATION: modualte your voice, raise it in questions and series, falling at the end.
- RHYTHM: avoid uneasy pauses, hesitations or stutters; follow punctuation pauses.
- CONTENT: veracity, current and correct; contrasted.
- ACCURACY: mind agreement, tenses, prepositions and particles accurately.
2) CURRENT NEWS: LISTENING
Listen to Kamala Harris' speech. Make a summary (journalistic style) highlighting the main pouints and quoting the 2 key sentences. Include it on a slide for your powerpoint.
DEBATE: research about different points in Biden/Trump campaigns about different topics. Thomas will help you with this. We will propose different topics. You will take on side or the other and will defend your ideas (we can make you side one or the other on puspose, like in a DEBATE LEAGUE. Be ready to suport ideas you don't agree with for the sake of rethorics!).
3) PRESS/INTERACTIVE MEDIA: WRITING
Thomas will show you his "good news". Look for a positive one as well and write a short article in his style!
TIPS: follow the rules of the 6w and the inverted pyramid.
4) TV: SPEAKING
Read the tips for your report. You will be parish correspondents. Look for a a newsworthy fact, prepare your piece and 3, 2, 1... action! You can share it with wetransfer.
https://zoomenglish.blogspot.com/2018/11/2bc-stand-up-tips-for-journalist.html
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CATEGORY |
2 |
1.5 |
1 |
0.5 |
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ACCURACY AND FLUENCY |
Speaks clearly and distinctly all of the time and mispronounces no words. |
Speaks clearly and distinctly all of the time but mispronounces 1 or 2 words. |
Speaks clearly and distinctly most of the time and mispronounces 3-5 words. |
Does NOT speak clearly and distinctly most of the time AND/OR mispronounces more than 5 words. |
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CONTENT AND LOCATION |
All supportive facts are reported accurately (3 of 3). Perfect location. |
Almost all facts are reported accurately (2 of 3). Suitable location. |
One fact is reported accurately. Somehow relevant location. |
No facts are reported accurately OR no facts were reported. Location with little relevance. |
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BODY LANGUAGE |
Facial expression and body language show a strong interest and enthusiasm about the topic throughout the newscast, but it is not overdone. |
Facial expression and body language show a strong interest and enthusiasm about the topic throughout the newscast, but it is somewhat overdone. |
Facial expression and body language show some interest and enthusiasm about the topic throughout the newscast. |
Facial expression and body language depict apathy or boredom with the topic. |
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COHESION AND FOCUS |
Newscast establishes a purpose at the beginning and maintains that focus throughout! Cohesive newscast. |
Establishes a purpose at the beginning, but occasionally wanders from that focus. |
The purpose is somewhat clear but many apects of the newscast seem only slightly related. |
It was difficult to figure out the purpose of the newscast. |
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LEXICON |
Use of vocabulary, audio and graphics they chose fit their intended audience. |
Use of vocabulary, audio and graphics they chose fit their intended audience. |
Use of vocabulary, audio and graphics they chose fit their intended audience |
Poor vocabulary, audio or graphics. Technical problems |
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