Unit 10 Connections Writing Workshop 课件-2022-2023学年高中英语北师大版（2019）选择性必修第四册

新北师大版高中英语选择性必修四Unit10 Connections Writing Workshop Warming-up You are going to write a news report on a school or community event. Discuss these questions with your partner. 1. What event would you like to write about? 2. What aspects are you going to include? 3. How is a news report normally organised? Warming-up 1. What event would you like to write about? sports meeting History Play Festival English Drama Week Teachers’ Day celebration guessing lantern riddles at Lantern Festival school trip New Year’s Eve gala Warming-up 2. What aspects are you going to include? who are involved why the event is held where the event is held when the event is held how the event is held what exactly happens Warming-up Tips: When writing a news report, it’s important to concentrate on four elements — facts, context, impact, and emotion. How you combine these four elements will determine the success of your news story. 3. How is a news report normally organised? Warming-up Facts: First, you can hardly call it a news story without the facts. Otherwise, it quickly becomes an opinion piece or a lifestyle article. Not only does the public expect facts over opinions, but they also expect the journalist to follow sound fact-checking procedures. The facts answer the 5Ws (and H): who, what, where, when, why, and how. A journalist has a responsibility to make sure the facts are accurate and reasonably complete. If you have to write a report before you get all the facts, then say so in the report. Warming-up Context In news writing, context answers the question, “Why should I care?” or, “Why should I read this?” But, from the perspective of the news writer, context helps you decide what the audience needs to know. The American Press Institute cites context as a nice way to gain new readers through an entry point they can relate to. Context provides the circumstances surrounding the facts of the news story. Warming-up Impact Impact touches on the “why we should care” theme too. News writing