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Unit 1 The News

Unit 1 The News. Designer: Joy Liu. Activity One How to Write a News Article? Major News Agents in the World. Activity Two Chance & Opportunity Game. Activity One. How to Write a Good News Article? Major News Agents in the World. How to write a good news article?.

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Unit 1 The News

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  1. Unit 1The News Designer: Joy Liu

  2. Activity OneHow to Write a News Article?Major News Agents in the World Activity TwoChance & OpportunityGame

  3. Activity One How to Write a Good News Article?Major News Agents in the World

  4. 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.

  5. To be a good reporter, you should know these guidelines first. • Task: Report thefacts. • Style: Write short and directsentences and paragraphswhich carry the most crucial information that readers need to know or are interested.

  6. 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

  7. Format Headline Byline Explanation& Background information Lead Paragraph

  8. 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 sentenceto get the reader engaged.

  9. Basic Facts in the Lead Paragraph N Who W Where S When E What Why

  10. The Following Paragraphs • In the following paragraphs, a journalist has to provide explanations of the details and the background information for the news.

  11. The news is often written in an up-side-down pyramid way. The most prominent paragraph goes first, and the last, the least.

  12. Up-Side-Down News Pyramid Most Important Facts Less Important Least Important

  13. Major News Agencies in the World

  14. Five 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

  15. AP

  16. Reuters

  17. AFP (法新社)

  18. UPI(合眾國際社)

  19. TASS (塔斯社)

  20. After reading this unit… Do you want to be a journalist?

  21. 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

  22. 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

  23. Oh, my gosh! I think you have to be a super person!

  24. Extended 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.

  25. Activity Two Chance & Opportunity Game

  26. 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!

  27. Some questions are easy, and some are difficult. Just enjoy the game & make a choice now! Opportunity Fortune 1 Pick Me Pick Me

  28. Opportunity Fortune 2 Pick Me Pick Me

  29. Opportunity Fortune 3 Pick Me Pick Me

  30. Today’s winner goes to…

  31. 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)

  32. 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 END

  33. Click here to go to the next question! What makes a story newsworthy to you?(It’s an open question.) Fortune 1 Pass? Or got a Dumb Head?

  34. Fortune 2 • 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. Pass? Or got a Dumb Head?

  35. Fortune 3 What is the best honor for a journalist’s good work? (Hint: it’s a prize.) The Pulitzer Prize.(普立茲獎) Click & See!

  36. Opportunity 1 Click here to go to the next question! • Name any 2 English newspaper or magazines you know. Ex. New York Times, Washington Post, Time magazine, Newsweek, Reader’s Digest, National Geography, Seventies, etc.

  37. Opportunity 2 • AP, Reuters, France-Presse are the major news agencies in the world. What is the news agency of Taiwan? Central News Agency (Click & See)

  38. Opportunity 3 Click here to go to the end! • Do you want to be a journalist? Why? Why not?

  39. 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/

  40. Central News Agency (中央社)

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