S2 will be working on a newspaper project starting this week. The unit covers diffferent aspects of journalism and culminates in students getting a chance to write their own front page story on the events of the poem “The Ballad of Billy Rose” which they studied before Chirstmas.
One of the aspects of reading newspapers which students find difficult is the style and language involved. Given that the N5 and Higher exam almost always contain a newspaper report in Paper I and that being able to handle news stories is an essential life skill we would encourage students to read news stories online as much as they can. Time interacting with a quality news story is never time wasted !
