Journalism English: Presentations

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The presentation outline below serves as a guide only. Your group is free to prepare your presentations using any format you wish, but your presentations must meet the following conditions:

  1. You must be prepared to explain to the class the five W's of the story: who, what, when, where, and why. (You might also want to include a 'how', but that's not required.) If there are five of you in a group, it would make sense for each one of you to explain one of the W's, but how to explain them is ultimately up to you.
  2. You need to prepare some discussion questions for the story.
  3. You need to copy the story for your classmates and hand it out in class the day of the presentation.

Outline

Here is a rough outline of one way to organize your presentation.

First period / Part I
  1. Hand out the story. Do not give any explanation at this point.
  2. Give the class 15-20 minutes to read the story. Students should all try to find the five W's, and also identify language in the article that the do not understand.
  3. Ask the class if they can identify the five W's.
  4. Explain the five W's to the class in detail.
Second period / Part II
  1. Give the class an opportunity to ask any questions they have about the story, including questions about vocabulary and other language. This is the time to make sure everybody really understands what the story is all about.
  2. Go over the discussion questions. Give the class 15-20 minutes to discuss the questions in small groups and prepare some comments.
  3. Each discussion groups shares a couple of their comments with the class.
Third period / Part III

Your group is not absolutely required to do the following, but try to think of some sort of activity that would be fun. The instructor can try to come up with an activity as well.

  1. Role play or other type of activity loosely related to the story. (News conference, debate, situational role play, etc.)
  2. If there are any audio or video files related to the story, this is a good time to listen to and watch them.

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