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).

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.