Exploitingthenewsontelevision

Exploitingthenewsontelevision

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  DIDACTIC UNIT 2TELEVISION EXPLOITING THE NEWS ON TELEVISION Cristina Cano Jaraba
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  Destinatarios AMPLIACIÓN DEINGLÉS 2º BACHILLERATO
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  Objetivos Be ableto understand and interpret news on television. Summarize information given by the news reader. Be able to re-tell a news item as news readers.
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  Contenidos Listening skills.Communicative skills. Socio cultural aspects. Language awareness.
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  Recursos http ://news.bbc.co.uk /2/ hi / video_and_audio / news_summary /8070822. stm For this activity we will use the One Minute World News offered by the BBC in the website mentioned above.
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  Actividades SESSION 1Pre viewing (10 minutes) Students come up with recent news. I will write down the headlines they mention on the board. I will provide headlines from the newspapers that will correspond to the TV news to help prompt ideas of the news items students are going to watch afterwards.
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  Actividades Viewing –Headlines (20 minutes) I will play the One Minute BBC News headlines without the sound. Pair work – Students discuss the stories in the headlines and predict vocabulary. Feedback.
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  Actividades We willwatch it with sound and check the predictions the students made. They will share their predictions with the rest of the class and I will make sure they understood the each news clearly, in order to achieve this we will play the news again and pause after each news item for comprehension/questions/new vocabulary. (20 minutes)
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  Evaluación The techniquesI will use will be direct and indirect observation. In order to decide the degree of achievement of the objectives I will follow the following criteria: Ability to understand and interpret information from a news reader on television in a limited time. Ability to communicate ideas related to the chosen news items. Accuracy in the use of the new vocabulary.