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Students' individual oral presentations: The Week in Review.

4 Março 2021, 08:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Students' individual oral presentations: The Week in Review (Ricardo Almeida, Pedro Noronha, Mariana Silva).

HOMEWORK: Take notes about the differences/similarities between TEXTS 9 and 10 by using the questions on page 30 of the Workbook (Making judgements about the kind of audience the articles were written for) as guidelines; you'll have to report orally on your findings on Tuesday, 9th March.

Straight news stories vs news features. Popular vs quality press: Comparing and contrasting two news stories on the same event.

3 Março 2021, 08:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

1. Journalistic genres: Straight news stories vs news features (READING MATTERS TEXT 8 "How journalists write" and TEXT 9 ("Features").

2. Popular vs quality press: (a) in-class group 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 on Tuesday, 9th March).

Shared knowledge in headlines continued. Straight news stories/reports and features. Direct and delayed leads.

2 Março 2021, 08:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Shared knowledge in headlines: discussing examples of headlines that are related to specific cultural references continued.

Journalistic genres: Straight news stories/reports and features. Direct and delayed leads; the inverted pyramid style and the narrative style; nut graphs.

HOMEWORK: Please read TEXT 8 (“How journalists write”) and TEXT 9 (“Features") at home.

Crash blossoms continued. Shared knowledge in headlines.

25 Fevereiro 2021, 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 to be continued next class).

"Crash blossoms". The language features of headlines continued.

24 Fevereiro 2021, 08:00 • Isabel Maria Ferro Mealha

Students' short reports on a photo that sparks something in them continued.

Reading and analysis of the article "Heads you win" by Ian Mayes (READING MATTERS TEXT 5) continued.

Reading and discussion of READING MATTERS TEXT 6 - "Crash blossoms".
Syntactic ambiguity in headlines: analysing examples of garden-path sentences or crash blossoms.

HOMEWORK: Do the exercise “Ambiguous headlines" (p. 19-20) at home. Answers will be checked tomorrow..