Descripción de la tarea

The news
If you read the headlines of a newspaper you will find that a lot of them use the passive voice.
We have to remember that the passive voice is used in English when:
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The actor is unknown.
The cave paintings of Lascaux were made in the Upper Old Stone Age. [We don’t know who made them.]
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The actor is irrelevant
An experimental solar power plant will be built in the Australian desert. [We are not interested in who is building it.]
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You want to be vague about who is responsible
Mistakes were made. [Common in bureaucratic writing!]
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You are talking about a general truth
Rules are made to be broken. [By whomever, whenever.]
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You want to emphasize the person or thing acted on
Insulin was first discovered in 1921 by researchers at the University of Toronto.
Let’s have a look at these headlines from The Guardian (2019/11/08)
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World Lula: former Brazil president could be freed from jail after court ruling
Photograph: Nelson Almeida/AFP via Getty Images |
Enviroment Delhi’s toxic politicians must be held to account for this deadly pollution
Photograph: Manish Swarup/AP |
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Enviroment Climate activists on how they think the crisis should be reportedVideo de Youtube. |
World Thousands of rare 'ice eggs' found on beach in Finland
Photograph: Risto Mattila |
Nota: Hay que tener en cuenta que en muchos titulares los verbos auxiliares se omiten por razón de espacio. Si os fijáis en el último titular, “Thousands of rare 'ice eggs' found on beach in Finland”, a primera vista parece que el verbo es un past simple. Sin embargo, si reflexionamos, nos daremos cuenta que el ‘sujeto’ de la oración ‘Thousands of rare 'ice eggs' NO es el sujeto activo, no es quien realiza la acción, por lo tanto si escribimos el titular ‘correctamente sería: “Thousands of rare 'ice eggs' were found on beach in Finland”. Alguien encontró los huevos.
1 Go to a newspaper web page and find 4 headlines which use the passive voice.
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The New York Times |
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The Washington Post |
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Write the headlines here. Add the auxiliary verb (if necessary) and underline de verb. (If you can not find any, make it up)
ej. - Thousands of rare 'ice eggs' found on beach in Finland
- Thousands of rare 'ice eggs' were found on beach in Finland
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2 Now, think about a piece of news and write an article about it.
This is the last tasks of the academic year. Use the knowledge acquired during the year. Write no less than 150 words.
Be as creative as possible using your own words!
Don’t forget to include:
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Some passive sentence and underline them in your article.
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Present perfect for breaking news to announce what has happened.
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Past simple to describe the details.
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If you want you can use reported speech to report what the people involved in the news have said.
3 Once you have written the texts, then it’s time to make a video.
Imagine you are the anchorman/woman of a TV News program. Record a video giving the news you wrote in the previous activity. Add some photos and images to make it more attractive.
Once you have recorded your video, upload it to your account in YouTube or Dropbox. If you don't have one, we explain how to open one in the section Ayuda y Entrega.
If you want some examples of news in English, you can visit this link that will give you an idea of what you have to do.
Pega aquí tu enlace de YouTube:
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CRITERIOS DE EVALUACIÓN Y CALIFICACIÓN |
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WRITING |
Escribir un texto narrativo sobre una noticia usando las estructuras morfosintácticas y gramaticales con corrección. |
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Utilizar de forma adecuada el léxico común y más especializado relacionado con el mundo del periodismo una narración escrita. |
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Utilizar con corrección una variedad adecuada de conectores de secuencia y elementos cohesivos de uso común con el fin de que el discurso esté bien organizado. |
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Escribir un texto de estructura clara, organizando las ideas de manera coherente y aplicando patrones discursivos apropiados al tipo de texto que pretende desarrollar. |
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Adecuar la producción del texto escrito a las funciones comunicativas requeridas en la tarea planteada. |
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SPEAKING |
Utilizar la lengua inglesa para exponer información oralmente para crear un vídeo donde se describa con detalle suficiente una noticia acontecida recientemente y hacerse entender. |
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Imitar la pronunciación, entonación y otros elementos suprasegmentales para articular, cohesionar, facilitar la comprensión y aportar calidad al mensaje oral. |
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CREATIVITY |
El alumno usa las herramientas adecuadas para realizar una tarea original y creativa. |
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TOTAL TAREA |
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