1. Newspaper Articles

2. Learning Objective
To read and understand features of an article

3. How many different names of newspapers do you know?
TASK: Work with your partner to list the newspapers that you know about.

4. “Look at how the different newspapers are grouped together.
British Newspapers
“Look at how the different newspapers are grouped together.
What does it tell us?”

5. How are newspapers constructed?
TASK: Can you list
the features of
a newspaper front page.
What can you see?
“Did someone say ‘construction?’”

6. Name, date and price Second headline Story inside Main headline
Photograph .
Caption
Introduction
Quotes
Main body

7. TASK: Why do newspapers use certain features?
Complete the table below in your books.
Features of newspapers
What is the role of this feature?
Date
The date shows the reader when the news has happened and if it is up- to- date.

8. Photograph and caption
Main headline
A headline is usually only four or five words long.
It tries to attract the interest of the reader.
Name, date and price
Story inside
Some information about another story that is inside the newspaper.
What are
the
features
of a
newspaper?
Second headline
A sentence next to the main headline that explains a little bit more about the headline.
Photograph and caption
Photographs have a sentence underneath them to explain what is happening.
Introduction
It will set the scene and summarise the main points.
Quotes
What a person has said
(like an eye-witness or an expert).
These will be in speech marks.
Main body
The story: giving more information on the main points.

9. Masthead = Name, logo, date and price
Ext: Test each other in pairs!
Masthead = Name, logo, date and price
Strapline = across whole news story
Plug = Story inside
Headline = title of story
Photograph .
Columns- separate story
Caption = explains photo
Main article = news story (including quotes)
Byline = the writer

10. Masthead Headline Photo Columns Quotations Subheadings By-line Plug
Newspaper Vocabulary
Masthead
Headline
Photo
Columns
Quotations
Subheadings
By-line
Plug
Jump line
Photo caption

11. Masthead
A Masthead is the name of the newspaper

12. Headline ROAD RAGE AT RUNCORN RALLY
Is a title to attract reader’s attention, they are usually short, catchy, bold and often in capitals.

13. Photo/Image
Photo that links to someone or something the article is about.

14. Columns
Newspapers are written in two columns.

15. Quotations
A spectator said ‘it was horrendous, the car just smashed into the side of the other driver… it was horrid, horrid’
Comments taken directly from people involved in the report or connected to the report.

16. Subheadings Lucky Escape
A smaller heading to break up the story, making it easier to read, usually in italics.

17. By-line Tells the reader who has written the report.
Report by Jake Wheeler
Tells the reader who has written the report.

18. Plug
Telling you about another story/article inside the paper, making you want to buy it.

19. Jump-line Continued on page 6
Tells the reader that the report is continued inside the paper.

20. Photo Caption
Above: The two rally cars crashing into one another
Sentence underneath the photo that informs the reader of who/what the picture is of.

21. Masthead Headline Photo Plug Columns Photo Caption Columns By-line
Date
Price
Photo
Headline
By-line
Columns
Photo Caption
Columns
Sub-Headings
Jump line

24. What are the labels pointing to?!
What are the labels pointing to? 24

25. g) a) b) c) d) f) h) i)

26. a) masthead g) plug b) photo c) headline d) caption f) byline
h) columns
i) Main story

27. Picture related to the article
Big Headline with one sentence to explain what the article is about
Columns are separated for easier reading

28. Analysing the headline
What are the features of this text from a newspaper?
Who needs a holiday when you can be at work?
By James Clerk
Industry Correspondent
The bold headline in the form of a rhetorical question attracts attention
Worksheet Eleven accompanies this slide.
The name of the reporter is in bold
The reporter’s specialism is written underneath

29. Analysing the headline
Worksheet Eleven accompanies this slide.

30. Analysing the function and layout
What do you notice about the layout of the text below?
BRITISH employees threw millions of pounds worth of holidays down the drain in the last year because they were happier staying at work.
According to a recent survey, one in three workers felt that their job provided them with everything that they could want, and so found no problem with not using up the leave that they were entitled to.
The text is laid out in justified columns, with the first word in capitals and an indent at the beginning of the second paragraph. The font used is Times New Roman.
Worksheet Twelve accompanies this slide.
What is the function of the text?
What else can you say about the layout?

31. Analysing the language
What do you notice about the language used below?
BRITISH employees threw millions of pounds worth of holidays down the drain in the last year because they were happier staying at work.
According to a recent survey, one in three workers felt that their job provided them with everything that they could want, and so found no problem with not using up the leave that they were entitled to.
BRITISH employees threw millions of pounds worth of holidays down the drain in the last year because they were happier staying at work.
According to a recent survey, one in three workers felt that their job provided them with everything that they could want, and so found no problem with not using up the leave that they were entitled to.
BRITISH employees threw millions of pounds worth of holidays down the drain in the last year because they were happier staying at work.
According to a recent survey, one in three workers felt that their job provided them with everything that they could want, and so found no problem with not using up the leave that they were entitled to.
BRITISH employees threw millions of pounds worth of holidays down the drain in the last year because they were happier staying at work.
According to a recent survey, one in three workers felt that their job provided them with everything that they could want, and so found no problem with not using up the leave that they were entitled to.
BRITISH employees threw millions of pounds worth of holidays down the drain in the last year because they were happier staying at work.
According to a recent survey, one in three workers felt that their job provided them with everything that they could want, and so found no problem with not using up the leave that they were entitled to.
An imprecise figure; makes the text seem more shocking and dramatic.
Emotive language.
Worksheet Twelve accompanies this slide.
The article does not name its authority.
The article uses facts as evidence.

32. Quiz Worksheet Thirteen accompanies this slide.
As an extension or homework activity, the students could be asked to analyse the newspaper article of their choice using the definitions that they have just learnt. They could also be asked to analyse a magazine article and compare it to a newspaper one.

33. Why do journalists use the 5 Ws in their articles?
Who
What
When
Where
Why
Why do journalists use the 5 Ws in their articles?

34. Get your woollies out - we're in for an icy blast: Cold winds, frost and snow to hit Britain this week!
Prepare to wrap up warm, the glorious October heat wave that brought us such unseasonably sunny weather is sadly over. 
In its place, chilly winds, plummeting temperatures, frost and even snow will set Britain shivering this week.
(Daily mail)

35. Emotive Language

36. Emotive language
Emotive Language is language that makes the reader feel something when they read it. Killed – Sad – Happy – Pain –

37. In your books write the title Cats Tortured
In your books write the title Cats Tortured. Now read through the article, locate and copy the emotive words from the article into your books. Now you must change these emotive words to words that are MORE emotive. For example, ‘Killed’ could be changed for ‘slaughtered’
Emotive word taken from report
More emotive word to replace it

38. Woman's hidden camera captures shocking footage of her room-mate 'secretly torturing her cat while she was at work‘
Jordan Scott Bean, 25, is accused of torturing and causing pain to Alanna Jenkins' cat Chompers in Boca Raton, Florida
Jenkins set up a secret camera after being alarmed that her belongings had been moved around in her bedroom while she was at work Police claim the footage shows Bean abusing and hurting her two-year-old cat which wails for help - he claims he was just playing with the pet.
A Florida woman, who suspected her roommate of stealing from her, discovered him causing damage and pain to her cat after hiding a secret camera in her bedroom, according to police
Alanna Jenkins bought a secret camera disguised as an alarm clock to try and catch her roommate, Jordan Scott Bean, 25, going into her room while she was working.
But rather than just moving her belongings around or using them, she actually discovered something much worse - he was allegedly beating and hurting her 2-year-old cat.
This awful behaviour was caught when the poor cat was left alone in the apartment with Scott Bean who allegedly was just ‘being friendly’.

39. Put these emotive words into order of how they make you feel when you read them
Agony
Pain
Horror
Mutilate
Scared
Terrified
Injured
Tortured

40. Masthead Headline Photo Columns Quotations Subheadings
Newspaper Vocabulary
Masthead
Headline
Photo
Columns
Quotations
Subheadings

41. Headlines

42. Lesson Objective: Pupils will develop their understanding of newspaper headlines and openings.

43. Newspaper headlines
Alliteration- When you repeat the first letter or sound of each word
Exclamation- Usually one or two words ending with an exclamation mark
Emotive Language- language that makes the reader FEEL something when they read it.

44. Grand Slam!

45. School Backs Scholars

46. Slaughter house condemned for obscene cruelty

47. Which is more effective?
Decide individually which you think is more effective.
Share your opinion with your partner
Share your opinions with the class, giving reasons for your decisions

48. Using one of the headline styles, create a headline for your image.

49. Headlines
News items and stories in newspapers have headlines above them. 
A headline usually has only four or five words. 

50. “Journalists can use puns to make a headline funny and
A headline is to attract the interest of the readers by telling them, in a short,interesting way, what the story is about.
“Journalists can use puns to make a headline funny and
eye-catching.”

51. TASK: Create a headline for the following stories
(try to write each one using less than five words):
1. The Welsh rugby team face Samoa in the Autumn Internationals in the Millennium Stadium on Saturday.
2.  A couple from Caerleon have won the Euro Millions jackpot, which was over £45 million.
3. There have been concerns about fire safety in the Channel Tunnel that connects Britain and France. Safety officials want new safety procedures to prevent any tragedies.
4. The English boxer David Haye fought the Russian giant Nikolai Valuev for the WBA heavyweight championship title.

52. 3. Burning questions about tunnel David beat Goliath again!
TASK: Create a headline for the following stories
(try to write each one using less than five words):
1. Have Samoa this!
2. What a Lotto lolly!
3. Burning questions about tunnel
safety unanswered!
4. Valuev some of this/
David beat Goliath again!

53. What must we remember
to include in our
newspaper article?
TASK: You will write your own newspaper article about ‘Jedward’ surviving the X Factor on Saturday.

54. The opening paragraph

55. The 5 W’s and H Who – who is the story about?
What – what is the story about?
When – when did it occur?
Where – where did the event occur?
Why – why did this happen?
How – how did this happen?

56. For Example Who – the man What – he fell off a ladder while painting
Where – at his house
When – yesterday
Why – the ladder was rickety
How – the rickety ladder broke
So your opening paragraph might go something like this:
A man was injured yesterday when he fell off a rickety ladder that collapsed while he was painting his house.

57. Why use this format?
This format tells the reader the main points of the story straight away.
This format ’HOOKS’ the reader, making them want to continue reading.

59. Quiz- How much can you remember?
What are the three different styles of headlines?
Can you give me an example of an alliterative headline?
Can you give me an example of an emotive headline?
What do the 5 W and the H stand for?

60. Eye Witness Quotations

61. Quotations
A spectator said “It was horrendous, the car just smashed into the side of the other driver… It was horrid, horrid”
Comments taken directly from people involved in the report or connected to the report.

62. Writing Assessment
Your task is to write a newspaper article using the layout and success criteria given. Your focus is on war, you may choose an event from your research or an event that is linked to the text we have been studying.

63. Formal Language

64. Oi!
Informal language V
Formal language.
Oh hello!

65. Formal language
Informal Language
and
...are two very different things.
Sometimes we need to change the words we use and the way we speak, depending on who we are talking to.

66. James , a pupil, is shown into the Headteacher’s office.
Mr Swallow: Hello James.
James: Oh, Sir. Whas occurin’?
Mr Swallow: Nothing is “occuring” with me James. How are you?
James: I’m safe, cheers mate, jus’ call me Jim. What can I do you for?
Mr Swallow: I want to ask you why you were late for school this morning?
James: Thing is, I was on my way, when a dog attacked me and ran off wiv me homework. By the time I caught up with it I was so knackered I had to chill out for a mo’ before I came to school.
Mr Swallow: Do you expect me to believe this story?
James: Oh my days! I swear down, its pure true!
Mr Swallow: Well I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt this time, but one more thing
James. Do you think the way you’ve spoken to me today is appropriate?
James: What you talkin’ about bruv’ ..?

67. Is the way James spoke to the Head teacher appropriate?

68. Reading a newspaper article

69. Task-
Rewrite the following newspaper article, using formal language..

70. Today, a really big man woz caught
stealing from a local shop. He got
Into big trouble and stuff. He was
caught by police seriously early in the morning. He was very stupid and
silly and said that wat he had done was just so not like him at all!
One eye witness told us that she waz totally shocked by his actions and really didn’t know what to do! “I waaz coming out of da Spa, when I
Saw him like, running away with a load of stuff from the shop innit! I was well shocked!”
The man has now been jailed for loads of months and has to complete a community service thingy, where he has to sweep the roads like!!
Task-
Rewrite the newspaper story using formal English.
Continue the story:
Talk about:
1.) how his family feels
2.) how he was caught
3.) A quote from the Spa manager and details of the stock they have lost.
4.) What other people in the area have said about the robbery.

71. Language and Layout

72. Quotes from Newspapers

74. “A MOB of 300 youngsters ran riot through their school yesterday - because they were bored. People living nearby watched, terrified, as gangs of 15 and 16 year olds rampaged through the 1000-pupil school at Bideford, Devon, chanting "We want a riot" as they smashed windows.”

77. “LOVING mother gorilla Salome cradles her newborn baby tenderly after it was born — in Bristol.” Daily Mail

78. From bookshelves to basins, floorboards to floral bed sheets, the dozing dogs and catnapping kittens have made themselves at home while looking adorable!

81. Assessment Preparation

82. Learning Objectives
To fully understand how to write a newspaper article for my assessment

83. Layout