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Self-study: TEdx talk and Texts 15 and 16.
5 Novembro 2024, 08:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
Self-study activities:
Popular vs quality press: Comparing and contrasting two news stories on the same event. Straight news stories/reports and features. Direct and delayed leads.
31 Outubro 2024, 08:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
1. Popular vs quality press: (a) in class activity: comparing and contrasting the language features and overall style of two news stories reporting on the same event - TEXT 11 "Pride of Britain Awards 2011 ...", Daily Mirror; TEXT 12 - "Pensioner prevented jewellery raid ...", The Guardian.
2. Journalistic genres: Straight news stories/reports and features (TEXT 14 “How to write journalism: Features”). Direct and delayed leads; the inverted pyramid style and the narrative style; nut graphs.
3. A news feature: TEXT 13 - “Supergran Ann Timson who foiled armed gang with handbag says she's just mad” (Daily Mail)
HOMEWORK: Read TEXT 15 and TEXT 16 at home. TEXT 15: “Monitoring the popular press: an historical perspective” and TEXT 16: “The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis of journalism”.
Popular vs quality press: Comparing and contrasting two news stories on the same event.
29 Outubro 2024, 08:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
Reaction papers handed back and feedback given on them.
Individual press review (The Week in Review: Your Pick of Stories) - instructions explained; rubric (assessment criteria); tips on how to organise an oral presentation.
Popular vs quality press: in-class group activity: comparing and contrasting the language features and overall style of two news stories reporting on the same event - TEXT 11 "Pride of Britain Awards 2011 ...", Daily Mirror; TEXT 12 - "Pensioner prevented jewellery raid ...", The Guardian ((to be continued next class).
Headlines: crash blossoms and shared knowledge.
24 Outubro 2024, 08:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
Syntactic ambiguity in headlines: analysing examples of garden-path sentences or crash blossoms continued.
Shared knowledge in headlines: discussing examples of headlines that are related to specific cultural references (group work).
Main features of headlinese. Syntactic ambiguity in headlines: "Crash blossoms."
22 Outubro 2024, 08:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha
Main features of headlinese: Checking the answers to Exercise B (page 19).
Reading and discussion of READING MATTERS TEXT 7b - "Crash blossoms". Syntactic ambiguity in headlines: analysing examples of garden-path sentences or crash blossoms. Doing the exercise “Ambiguous headlines" (p. 22-23) and checking the answers (to be continued next lesson).