News in the Real World!
This weekend
your homework for Reading 6 will be to read various news sources and find an
article that interests you. You will prepare a 2-3 minute oral summary to share
with you classmates on Tuesday.
Summarizing is the key ability to master for success in
academic reading and writing.
In order to prepare yourself to write a summary, you must
answer the wh- questions:
1.
Who?
2.
What?
3.
Where?
4.
When?
5.
Why?
6.
How?
Directions:
Prepare a 2-3 minute oral
summary of the article you read.
Include the main ideas of the
article and explain why you selected the article to read (answer the pertinent “wh-
questions”).
Additionally, you should identify 1
new “bling” word in the article, find the definition, and teach it to your
group.
There are
many positive advantages to this homework assignment:
1.
It fits your Constitutional law to work outside of the
textbook 50% of the time J
2.
You practice the key academic skill of summarizing
3.
You become more familiar with reading authentic “real
world” English that is aimed at native English speakers
4.
We all get to keep up with current affairs
5.
I get to see what kinds of things you find interesting
Here are
some sample news resources:
http://www.cbs8.com/
(local San Diego news)
www.cnn.com (American
news)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ (world news)
http://english.aljazeera.net/
(news with a focus on the Middle East/Arab peninsula)
