Press
Reviews: 2005
- 2006
Each week two students working as a team will present
a press review covering the subject(s) of their choice with reference
to various articles from various sources.
Your presentation (about 30 minutes including class discussion)
should include facts, analysis and opinion, and you should also
be ready to pass on useful / interesting vocabulary and expressions
that you have come across in your preparation. You may of course use
notes but you should avoid reading a written text ! Remember,
this is an exercise in communication.
The presentation should be interactive at all stages,
encouraging class participation as frequently as possible
in response to the stimulus material and to your own commentary. You
should find original and imaginative ways of drawing the class into
a discussion (for example by using a short extract from an article,
a cartoon, a video sequence, a quotation etc. etc. as a basis for discussion
or for a closer look at the language - choice of vocabulary, interesting
stylistic features and so on).
Prior to the presentation (i.e. at the beginning of the class)
you will give me an outline and a brief summary of the content
of your press review.
During the class, the audience should take notes and participate
in the discussion. As a follow up activity, students will be asked
to write a report/personal commentary on the press review to
be done on the spot or to hand in to me the following week (about 500-600
words).* This should include a brief summary of
the events presented in the press review and, more importantly, your
own reaction to the review and to the events discussed. There should
be some reference to those who participated in the discussion and the
opinions they expressed. The corrected versions of your commentaries
may, with your agreement, be published on periwork.com
The aim of this activity is to give everyone a regular opportunity
to use and develop their language skills (reading, speaking, listening,
writing) working on a variety of subjects.
N.B. Feel free to be creative both in the selection of material
and the way you present it. There is no pre-established model of a press
review that has to be reproduced and the range of subjects that can
be covered is not limited. The presentations will thus correspond to
the interests of the reviewers and this in turn will ensure variety.
*please type written work with 1,5 spacing and margins for corrections
and notes.
DFC September 2005