Newspaper Articles

 Media File

Each week you will need to collect news clippings about current issues and the most useful sources are The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and The Daily Telegraph. Current concerns are usually, immediately covered by the press and it will mean you become familiar with some of the local and macro environment.

Class Activity - Take some notes using key words after reading the article you have chosen.

Homework = Summary - Write a brief summary of the main issues the article deals with based on your notes.

Personal reflection - Respond in a written format about attitudes, feelings, reflections on the content and implications of the article.

TASK 1 - Newspaper Headlines - Useful Language

• Analyse the headline
• Focus on key words
• Complete the activity choosing the correct key word

SUMMARISING

 

What is summarising?

To summarise is simply to identify the most important information from a text. You are probably summarising every day without thinking about it. A summary is always much shorter than the original text, but there is more to summarising than simply copying some sentences from a source and leaving out others. Summarising is a matter of analysing and re-purposing information.

The Sport Journal

 The Sport Journal Practice

• Click on The Sport Journal
• Choose a journal article (not very long)
• Read the journal article
• Identify the main idea of the article
• Identify the parts of the article
• What methods were used
• What are the main results
• What is the conclusion of the journal article