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Writing A News Report Lesson Plan

This lesson plan aims to develop students' writing abilities through creating a news report. Students will go through a pre-writing process of brainstorming questions and collecting information about a fictional missing teacher case. They will then write a first draft news report using this information. Students will then edit each other's work using a checklist and produce a final draft. Optional follow-up tasks include comparing student reports to authentic examples, choosing the best report, and writing a follow-up report on solving the mystery. The goal is to practice organizing information, revising writing, and constructing questions.

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Writing A News Report Lesson Plan

This lesson plan aims to develop students' writing abilities through creating a news report. Students will go through a pre-writing process of brainstorming questions and collecting information about a fictional missing teacher case. They will then write a first draft news report using this information. Students will then edit each other's work using a checklist and produce a final draft. Optional follow-up tasks include comparing student reports to authentic examples, choosing the best report, and writing a follow-up report on solving the mystery. The goal is to practice organizing information, revising writing, and constructing questions.

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Lesson plan

Writing a news report


Topic
News reports

Aims
To develop students abilities to organise information and construct it into a text
To develop students abilities to revise, redraft and improve their writing
To develop students abilities to construct questions

Age group
Teens

Level
A2+

Time
60 90 minutes

Materials
Writing a news report worksheet

Introduction
During this lesson students will go through the process of developing ideas and collecting and
organising information. They will then use the information to create the first draft of an imaginary
news article. They will then focus on some key areas of good writing and try to redraft their
articles with these in mind.

A variety of follow up tasks are offered after the main plan

Procedure
1. Pre-writing This part of the lesson should give students the opportunity to collect
tasks (10- 15 information before writing the news report. This should reduce the amount of
Lesson plan
minutes) creativity needed during the actual writing.
Write up the headline:

Mystery Disappearance of English Teacher: Students


Suspected

Put the students in groups of pairs to try to predict the content of the story
and what may have happened to the teacher.
Get the students to change groups and compare what they think may have
happened.
Give out a pile of about 10 or 15 slips of paper. Tell the students to write a
questions about the story on each slip of paper and give each one to you.
(You might want to put up some question words on the board to help prompt
them i.e. Who? What time.? How many.? Etc.)
As they give you back the slips of paper, write very brief answers on them
and give them back.

TIP: This works best if the students give each question to you as soon as they write it
and you write your answer on their slip of paper and return it immediately. The
answers you give them will help to prompt them to produce more questions. If you
have a very large class this may not be possible and you may want to stage this over
more than one lesson so you have time to write all the replies.

Stop when the students have either used up all their slips of paper or run out
of questions.

2. Task 2: Students then collect up the information they have on the slips of paper. Tell
Writing them they will use the information to compose a news report to go with the
preparation (20- headline. Before they start writing the report ask them to decide what order
25 minutes) they will put the information in.

TIP: A common order for newspaper reports of this kind are:


Headline
General info about crime
More details about what happened
A description of any suspects or the criminals
What police have done / are doing to try to solve the crime (possible appeal for
witnesses)

Once they have grouped the information, tell them to write the report and make
sure to include all the information from their questions.

3. Task 3: Once the students have written their reports ask them to exchange them with
Editing (15 25 another student and give out the Editor's checklist (on the student worksheet).
minutes) The students then use this to check through each other's work and write on
any comments or suggestions for improvement. Monitor and help here.
Lesson plan
Then they give the checked report back to the original writer who makes any
corrections or changes and produces a final draft, using the template
provided, if they want.

TIP: Generally Ive found that the process of drafting, adding comments and
redrafting works best when done on a computer as it is much easier for students to
make changes to their text without having to rewrite the whole thing. If your students
dont have access to computers then you might consider spreading the redrafting
over more than one lesson.

4. Possible Put the reports up on the walls around the class and get the students to look at
follow up tasks them all and choose the one they think is best.
Collect up the students slips of paper with their questions on and do some
error correction work.
Collect some short authentic news articles from either the internet or
newspapers and tell the students to compare them with their own: They should
looks for the way the information is organised (how many paragraphs, what is
the focus of each paragraph?), the verb forms or structures used (present
perfect, present simple, active or passive?), ways in which the writer has made
the writing more exciting (use of adjectives, adverts, variety of lexis)
Give the students the following headline:

Mystery of the Disappearing Teacher Solved


Ask them to produce a report for the radio or TV on how the mystery was
solved and what happened. They could even include interviews with the
teacher and students involved. (You could record or video this if you have
access to a camera / mobile phone).

Contributed by
Nik Peachey

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