4V T3a Newspapers B2
The Story Behind This Task
You are…
The editor-in-chief of a newspaper!
Nowadays, the internet is a haven for information. If you want to know something about a certain topic, you are guaranteed to find information on it. Do you want to know about all the different types of frogs? Then the internet will give you a number of websites to choose from. Do you want to know about plate tectonics? The internet is there for you.
However, not all the information on the internet is useful, and not even all of it is trustworthy.
You are sick and tired of all the useless and untrustworthy information that you’ve found on the internet, and you’ve decided to start your own newspaper, with your own stories, and your own sources.
In this task, you will learn the difference between different newspapers and how to structure a good newspaper article.
You will create the front page of your newspaper, and write articles to fill it. You will write a total of at least 3 articles and create the layout of your newspaper.
Duration
You have two lessons a week to work on the task. The other lesson we will do other activities.
You have 5 weeks for this task.
- Explore Phase: 1 lesson
- Produce Phase I: 2 lessons
- Feedback Phase: 0.5 lesson
- Grow Phase I: 0.5 lesson
- Produce Phase II: 2 lessons
- Produce Phase III: 2 lessons
- Feedback Phase II: 1 lesson
- Reflect Phase: 0.5 lessons
- Show Phase: 0.5 lesson
Rewards
You can earn 1000XP with this task.
You can earn 60 extra GEMS in total for this task. These are based on:
– Language used in your articles
– Correct newspaper article structure
– Outstanding use of grammar in your articles
You can only get these points if you did extra well. So better than you should.
Vocab
related to:
– news
– newspapers
– publications
Grammar
related to:
– Past simple
– Present perfect
– Concise writing
– Sentence structure
– reported speech
– passive voice / active voice
Year and level
Year 2
B2 Writing
B1 and B2 Reading
Learning Goals
B1
Lezen
B2
Schrijven
Lezen
Link naar volledige leerdoelen kaart
De bovenstaande leerdoelen voor schrijven zijn terug te vinden op de leerdoelkaart B1 en B2 voor moderne vreemde talen (MVT). Zie deze link voor het volledige overzicht van de B1 MVT leerdoelen. Zie deze link voor het volledige overzicht van de B2 MVT leerdoelen.
Mining Expeditions
Newspaper advertisement Mining Expedition
For this task, you can do a mining expedition in which you design and write an advertisement for your newspaper. If you finish this mining expedition before you hand in your front page, you may add it to your front page. You can find the assignment here.