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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:

The actor is unknown.

The cave paintings of Lascaux were made in the Upper Old Stone Age. [We don’t know who made them.]

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.]

You want to be vague about who is responsible

Mistakes were made. [Common in bureaucratic writing!]

You are talking about a general truth

Rules are made to be broken. [By whomever, whenever.]

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 (2020/10/26)

Example:

Opinion

The myth of the 'efficient' private sector has been busted by Covid

dollar

Imagen de pasja1000 en Pixabay ,CC BY 2.0

Life and style

Tree of the week: ‘They say this oak was used for hangings’

tree

Imagen de mbll en Pixabay , CC BY 2.0

Culture

Sarah Sze's cosmic constellation: 'It could be dashed away in a moment'

s

By dalbera from Paris, France - Untitled (Xe Biennale de Lyon) , CC BY 2.0

UK

Stowaways (have been) held as special forces gain control of oil tanker off Isle of Wight

s

Imagen de Jörg Peter en Pixabay, CC BY 2.0

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, “Stowaways held as special forces gain control of oil tanker off Isle of Wight”, a primera vista parece que el verbo es un past simple. Sin embargo, si reflexionamos, nos daremos cuenta que el ‘sujeto’ de la oración ‘Stowaways' NO es el sujeto activo, no es quien realiza la acción, por lo tanto si escribimos el titular ‘correctamente sería: “Stowaways have been held (by the police) as special forces gain control of oil tanker off Isle of Wight”. La policía detuvo a los polizones.

1 Go to a newspaper web page and find 4 headlines which use the passive voice. Here you have the links.

United Kingdom

U.S.

The Guardian

The New York Times

The Times

The Washington Post

Financial Times

USA Today

The Telegraph

CNN

The Independent

2 Write the headlines here. Add the auxiliary verb (if necessary) and underline de verb. (If you can not find any, make it up)

ej. - Stowaways held as special forces gain control of oil tanker off Isle of Wight

- Stowaways have been held as special forces gain control of oil tanker off Isle of Wight

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3 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:

  • Some passive sentence and underline them in your article.
  • Present perfect for breaking news to announce what has happened.
  • Past simple to describe the details.
  • If you want you can use reported speech to report what the people involved in the news have said.

4 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 with yourself as anchor man/woman 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.

Pega aquí tu enlace de YouTube:

CRITERIOS DE EVALUACIÓN Y CALIFICACIÓN 

CALIFICACIÓN

INADECUADO

CORRECTO

DESTACADO

WRITING

Escribir un texto narrativo sobre una noticia usando las estructuras morfosintácticas y gramaticales con corrección. 

0-15%

Utilizar de forma adecuada el léxico común y más especializado relacionado con el mundo del periodismo una narración escrita. 

0-15%

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.

0-15%

Escribir un texto de estructura clara, organizando las ideas de manera coherente  y aplicando patrones discursivos apropiados al tipo de texto que pretende desarrollar. 

0-15%

Adecuar la producción del texto escrito a las funciones comunicativas requeridas en la tarea planteada. 

0-10%

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.

0-10%

Imitar la pronunciación, entonación y otros elementos suprasegmentales para articular, cohesionar, facilitar la comprensión y aportar calidad al mensaje oral.

0-10%

CREATIVITY

El alumno usa las herramientas adecuadas para realizar una tarea original y creativa.

0-10%

TOTAL TAREA

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