Writing+to+Inform

=THE NEWS=

//TASK//
Get yourself online and find out these things:


 * The most important thing that happened in Hong Kong today
 * The most important thing that happened in Asia today
 * The 5 most important things that happened in the world today

You must look at AT LEAST two different news sources. Record which news sources you are looking at and what their 'most important' stories are.

//TASK 2//
Look at ALL of these sites. Spend a couple of minutes looking at their main stories, how much space they devote to those stories and how they are reporting them. Which ones are you most likely to read?

[|BBC]

[|FOX]

[|CNN]

[|CHINA DAILY]

[|YAHOO NEWS]

[|THE SUN]

[|Perez Hilton]

[|AL JAZEERA]

These sites focus on different stories. Why?

There are three 'types' of newspaper, all of which tend to report different stories in different ways for different reasons. These types do not exist in all cultures, but they are very noticeable and very clearly defined in the UK. They are:

TABLOIDS (or 'red tops') like The Sun

BLACK TOPS like The Daily Mail

BROADSHEETS like The Independent

//**//**TASK 3**//**//
Your task is to work out how these newspaper types differ from each other.

Read one story from each paper.

Make notes on the following things:

HEADLINE USE OF IMAGES (SIZE and TYPE of image) LENGTH OF STORY LANGUAGE OF STORY SUBJECT MATTER RANGE OF STORIES DESIGN AND LAYOUT TARGET AUDIENCE

NEWS VALUES =BACK TO KS4 ENGLISH LANGUAGE=