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Are you ready to create your travel journal?
To do so, you must learn how to write newspaper reports and headlines,
become familiar with block language and newspaper layout design.
Let me show you how!
Definition:
The way something is organized and designed with colours, images, etc.
La forma en la que algo es organizado y diseñado con colores y formas, etc.
Example:The poster design featured bright colors, large fonts, and original photo from the marathon.
El diseño del póster incluía colores brillantes, fuentes grandes y una foto original de la maratón.
Spanish word:Diseño.
You write your travel journal.
You write newspaper reports and headlines.
You learn newspaper layout design.
I can teach you.Newspaper Articles
Are you familiar with newspaper articles? They have different elements.
1. Layout
Your travel journal can have the same elements than the frontpage of a neswpaper. These are:
1. Name of the newspaper
2. Section
3. Headline
4. Drophead
5. Byline
6. Dateline
7. Lead
8. Body
9. Photo
10. Caption
2. A newspaper article
A newspaper article contains the following elements:
HEADLINE: It's the title of a newspaper story. It is usually in larger font and often bolded.
DROPHEAD: It’s a secondary headline that provides additional information about the story.
BYLINE: It's the author of the article. It appears at the beginning of the article.
DATELINE: It is the name of the city where a story took place and the date it was written.
LEAD: It's the first paragraph of a news article and it briefly gives the most important information.
BODY: It supplies additional information. It’s divided into small paragraphs.
CAPTION: It is used to describe a photograph.
3. Write catchy headlines
Your journal headlines must be:
Simple to understand.
The right length. From 4 to 10 words.
Emotional and persuasive.
Accurate and precise.
4. Drophead
Include a sentence under the headline. It should be interesting and relevant and summarize the news story.
5. Add pictures to your news article
Pictures are worth a thousand words. Combining pictures with what you are writing, will make your journal more attractive and easy-to-read. The captions explains the pictures in words.
6. Lead
The Five W's and H: Before writing a lead, decide which aspect of the story – who, what, when, where, why, how – is most important. You should emphasize those aspects in your lead.
7. Block language
Newspaper headlines use a special language style, "Block language", a form of headlines abbreviation. The essential information of your headline should be 4 to 10 words. Words like auxiliaries, articles or prepositions don't usually appear on headlines. In headlines, journalists often:
1. Use Acronyms (ASAP)
2. Use Initialisms (BBC)
3. Combine words (docudrama)
4. Make words short (gym)
8. Frontpage
This is an example of a newspaper frontpage. Observe the different elements contained in it: You should include these elements in your news article to tell your story to your readers.
9. Become a journalist
With these tips you are ready to write an excellent news article and tell Retor Fog's adventures around the world to your readers!
To become a good reporter, I´m going to give you some examples:
1. Initialisms
An abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separatel:
· BBC (British Broadcast Corporation)
· IDK (I don’t know)
2. Acronyms
An abbreviation formed from the initial letters of other words and pronounced as a word:
· ASAP (As soon as possible)
· FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
3. Combination of words
A new word is formed by combining two separate words with different meanings to form a new one:
· Brunch (Breakfast and Lunch)
· Docudrama (coming from documentary and drama)
4. Make words shorter
It involves the shortening of a longer word, often reducing it to one syllable:
· Gym for Gymnasium
· Lab for Laboratory
En español también tenemos estas fórmulas de acortar y crear palabras nuevas que se usan en la prensa y publicidad.
Prepárate para convertirte en un buen reportero, te voy a dar algunos ejemplos más:
1. Siglas: abreviatura formada por letras iniciales pronunciadas por separado.
- TVE (Televisión Española)
- OMS (Organización Mundial de la Salud)
2. Acrónimos: abreviatura formada a partir de letras iniciales de otras palabras y pronunciada como una palabra.
- Ovni (objeto volador no identificado)
3. Palabras combinadas: una palabra formada por combinación de dos palabras separadas con diferentes significados.
- Bonoloto (bono y lotería)
- Choripán (chorizo y pan)
4. Recorte: implica acortar una palabra más larga, a menudo reduciéndola a una sílaba.
- Compis por compañeros/as
- Cole por colegio
Block Language. Headlines.
How to write a good headline.
1. Use Keywords
2. Be accurate and precise.
3. Mention "Who" and "What"
4. Keep headlines short.
5. Don't use auxiliary verbs.
6. Use action words in active voice.
7. Omit articles and connectors.
8. Use punctuation to add new meaning.
9. Use formal language in your headline.
Let’s practise with these activities to create a travel journal.
Read the story summaries on this activity and then write a headline for each one.
Follow the example. When you finish show the headlines to your teacher.
Now that you are such a good reporter, write about your last holidays using the newspaper worksheet attached.
Include the best memories you have, the skills you practised, the friends you saw and what you learnt.
Don’t forget to include pictures of your holidays!
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How much you have learned to get here! Everything you learn helps you to achieve the goals you set for yourself.
Reflect for a moment on all you have learned so far. And complete STEP 3 of your Learning Diary (I review what I have learned).
Remember:
Cheer up, you'll do great!
¡Cuánto has aprendido hasta llegar aquí! Todo lo que aprendes te ayuda para conseguir las metas que te propones.
Reflexiona un momento sobre todo lo que has aprendido hasta llegar aquí. Y completa el PASO 3 de tu Diario de Aprendizaje (Reviso lo aprendido)
Recuerda:
¡Ánimo, que lo harás genial!
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