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How to do your News project Deadline: 30th April, 2010

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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

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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

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How to do your work with Google news

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Type “google news” in google

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Open the left menu bar and choose a country

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This is Google news India

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Choose an article

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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

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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