Straight news stories/reports and features. Direct and delayed leads. Popular vs quality press: Comparing and contrasting two news stories on the same event.

27 Outubro 2020, 08:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

1. Journalistic genres: Straight news stories/reports and features. Direct and delayed leads; the inverted pyramid style and the narrative style; nut graphs (READING MATTERS TEXT 8 "How journalists write" and TEXT 9 ("Features").

2. 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 9 "Pride of Britain Awards 2011 ...", Daily Mirror; TEXT 10 - "Pensioner prevented jewellery raid ...", The Guardian (to be continued next class).

HOMEWORK: Take notes about the differences/similarities between TEXTS 9 and 10 by answering the questions on page 30 of the Workbook (Making judgements about the kind of audience the articles were written for); you'll have to report orally on your findings in Thursday's class.