Tham khảo tài liệu 'new headway intermediate the third edition student's book_5', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 1 EXTENSION ACTIVITY If you have access to a camcorder you can make your own TV news in class. Otherwise you can prepare a radio broadcast by recording it on audio cassette. Bring in a pile of today s newspapers. If this is a problem ask each student to bring in a copy of today s newspaper with them for the lesson. Or you could photocopy relevant bits of an English language newspaper for students to refer to though make sure your school has permission to photocopy newspapers. Divide students into groups with four to six people in each group. Write the following roles on the board 1 International news reporter 2 National news reporter 3 Local news reporter 4 Interviewer 5 Sports reporter 6 Weather forecaster Ask the students to decide which person in each group will take which role. If you have a small class and decide on using groups of four miss out the sports and weather roles. Ask students to look at the newspapers decide which story to cover and rewrite the stories to make a fairly short spoken news item. Monitor and prompt. Remind students to use language from the Language Focus section of this unit. You will need to help the students with role 4 in particular. Tell them that they are going to interview someone hi the school about their job then write up a summary of the interview for the broadcast. Ideally provide them with a portable cassette recorder so that they can record their interview. If this all seems unpractical they can always interview you. Ask students to prepare to make the broadcast and practise reading the items aloud with natural stress and word linking. Make sure the groups decide in what order each person is going to speak. The first speaker will need to introduce the news programme. Introduce a few key phrases that students may need It s 10 o clock and here s the news. This is in London. And now over to in Moscow. is our reporter in New York. When the students are ready set up the classroom for the news programme. If you are using a .
