News Reading

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News Reading for ESL students. Taken from diana labajos and uploaded with slight modifications

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How to do your News project

Deadline: 30th April, 2010

Guidelines for your project• Write 10 news summaries

– Do a ppt, a word document, a glogster.

• Topics:– Culture: music, art, cinema, etc.– Sports– Society: social problems, etc.– Politics– Accident and crime reports

• At least 1 article per topic• You can use images and videos as

decoration.• Use google news

How to do your work with Google news

Type “google news” in google

Open the left menu bar and choose a country

This is Google news India

Choose an article

Write a summary: example

Headline (titular): Delhi celebrates Ram NavamiDate: 24-3-2010Newspaper or newsagency: Summary:

Today is the festival of Ram Navami, Hindi people do processions and they eat special vegetarian food. The festival lasts 9 days. People pray to the birth of the God Ram.

News URL: http://sify.com/news/delhi-celebrates-ram-navami-news-national-kdymkdjejhi.html

DO’s and DONT’s

• DO’s Use your own words

Write short simple sentences

Write a 40-50 word summary of your news• DONT’s

Don’t copy from the article

Don’t use translators

Don’t use words you don’t know