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Unit 1Unit 1The NewsThe News
Designer: Joy Liu
Activity OneHow to Write a News Article?
Major News Agents in the World
Activity TwoChance & Opportunity
Game
Activity OneActivity One
How to Write a Good News Article?Major News Agents in the World
How to write a good news article?
Adapted from: Sebrank, Patrick, Verne Meyer, and Dave Kemper. Write Source 2000. Wilmington: MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1995.
To be a good reporter, you should know these guidelines
first.
• Task: Report the facts.
• Style: Write short and direct sentences and paragraphs which carry the most crucial information that readers need to know or are interested.
• Bias: Newspaper articles should be written without bias. In other words, you should report the facts objectively. Do not give opinions in your news article.
Bias: 偏見Objectively: 客觀地
FormatFormat Headline
Byline
Lead Paragraph
Explanation&Background information
Lead Paragraph
• The most prominent paragraph in a news article.
• Include the who, what, when, where, why, and how as appropriate.
• Better start with a strong, interesting sentence to get the reader engaged.
Basic Facts in the Lead ParagraphBasic Facts in the Lead Paragraph
NNWho EE
What
WWWhere
SSWhen
Why
The Following Paragraphs
• In the following paragraphs, a journalist has to provide explanations of the details and the background information for the news.
The news is often written in an up-side-down pyramid way. The most prominent paragraph goes first,
and the last, the least.
Up-Side-Down News PyramidUp-Side-Down News Pyramid
Most Important Facts
Less Important
Least Important
Major News Agencies in the World
FFive Major News Agenciesive Major News Agencies
• Associated Press AP美聯社(美)• France-Presse Online 法新社(法)• Reuters 路透社(法)• United Press International
UPI合眾國際社(美)• TASS 塔斯社(俄羅斯)
Click & Go Online
APAP
ReutersReuters
AFP (AFP ( 法新社法新社 ))
UPI(合眾國際社 )
TASS (TASS ( 塔斯社塔斯社 ))
After reading this unit…
Do you want to be a journalist?
Then you’d better…
• be an excellent oral and written communicator
• have good shorthand, keyboard and IT skills
• be able to work to tight deadlines and remain calm under pressure
• be self-confident • be able to take responsibility for
your work and accept criticism • be a good team player • be balanced and objective• have good listening and questioning
skills• have a good knowledge of current
affairs and journalistic law
Oh, my gosh!Oh, my gosh!I think you I think you
have to be a have to be a super person!super person!
Extended HomeworkExtended Homework
• Find a piece of your favorite news. Have a brief reading of it.
• To accomplish this task, you can surf the internet, go to the library for English language magazines, or just buy an English newspaper and enjoy the reading.
Activity TwoActivity Two
Chance & OpportunityChance & Opportunity
GameGame
In this section, we prepare some questions to
challenge your understanding of this unit. You will get a Dumb Head
if you fail to answer the question. But if you
answer 3 questions right, you’re the winner!
OpportunityFortune1
Some questions are easy, and some are difficult. Just enjoy the game & make a choice now!
Pick Me Pick Me
OpportunityFortune2
Pick Me Pick Me
OpportunityFortune3
Pick Me Pick Me
Today’s winner goes Today’s winner goes to…to…
Related Words• News release ( 機關單位所發出的)新聞稿• Reporter / Broadcast Journalist 電視記者• Anchor 電視主播• Journalist 報紙記者• Correspondent 駐外特派員• News Agency 通訊社
( 負責提供新聞給各媒體 )
• Breaking News 即時新聞• Exclusive News 獨家新聞• Headlines 頭條新聞• Freelance Journalist 自由發稿記
者• Press Conference 記者會• Editorial Meeting 編輯會議• School of Journalism 新聞學
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What makes a story newsworthy to you?
(It’s an open question.)
Fortune 1
Pass?
Or got a Dumb Head?
Click here to go to the next question!
• Use the pattern “S + do/does not + have to +V…” to make a sentence.
• Ex. A story does not have to be tragic to be newsworthy.
Fortune 2
Pass?
Or got a Dumb Head?
What is the best honor for a journalist’s good work?
(Hint: it’s a prize.)
Fortune 3
The Pulitzer Prize.(普立茲獎)Click & See!Click & See!
• Name any 2 English newspaper or magazines you know.
Opportunity 1
Ex. New York Times, Washington Post, Time magazine, Newsweek, Reader’s Digest, National Geography, Seventies, etc.
Click here to go to the next question!
• AP, Reuters, France-Presse are the major news agencies in the world. What is the news agency of Taiwan?
Opportunity 2
Central News Agency
(Click & See)
• Do you want to be a journalist? Why? Why not?
Opportunity 3Click here to go to
the end!
Pulitzer Prize
• Established in 1904 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer.
• The most significant and honorable prize for journalism, literature, music and drama.
Joseph Pulitzer
(1847-1911)
A 19th century journalist
http://www.pulitzer.org/
Central News Agency (Central News Agency ( 中央中央社社 ))