4th Medio How to read a newspaper

Text Miners
underground POST-READING

Activity 1: Read the text again and by

Skill Reading
Comprehension scanning answer the following
Schedule 4 hours
Read the headline. Guess if a-h below are
Expecting Learning true (T) or false (F).

Students a. The miners were trapped underground

• show comprehension of the
information itself and the
communicative intension of the
message using linguistic and
textual keys and tips.
• Recognize journalistic language
• Find information through focused
reading (scanning)
• Recognize the functional value of
the text, relating its informative
content with real situations
• Apply inferring strategies
• Shows comprehension following the
logical order of the ideas
• Show comprehension of the learnt
topic through creating a short piece
of new
• Assess and apply the acquired
information in a real situation
Linguistic Content
Function
How to face a newspaper
Give information, give opinion about a
read piece of new.
Morphosyntactic
Report Speech
Verbal Form
Passive Voice
Simple Past Perfect
PRE-READING
Activity 1
a.- Student will receive different
newspaper.
b.- they will work in pairs
c.-Std will check the newspapers and
identify different sections on it, ( National,
Local, International, Sports, Culture, etc.);
for a little under two months. T/F
b. It took almost a day to bring all of the
miners to the surface. T/F
c. None of the miners had any medical
problems when they came up. T/F
d. The article says more people watched
the rescue than the World Cup. T/F
e. There were a few problems with the
rescue which delayed things. T/ F
f. No one has spent longer so deep
underground and survived. T / F
g. Chile’s president said the miners fought
too much while underground. T/ F
Activity 2 Multiple Choice
All thirty-three miners trapped
underground in Chile for 69 days have
been rescued.
One by (1) ____, over a tense 22 hours, the
men emerged into freedom after
spending over two months 700 metres
underground. The men were (2) ____ with
wild applause and hugs from rescuers and
family before being put on a (3) ____
and taken to hospital for two days of
medical checks. They were all in (4) ____
good health, although one had pneumonia
and several had dental problems. Their
story had gripped the world since the mine
collapse in August. Their rescue
attracted a TV audience (5) ____ a par with
Neil Armstrong’s first steps on the
moon or a football World Cup Final.
Television stations across the globe were
reporting record viewing figures as people
were (6) ____ to their TV sets.
numbers of pages designated for each
section and its location. Once recognize 1. (a) two (b) ones (c) twos (d) one
each section, std will complete a table. 2. (a) met (b) set (c) get (d) let
3. (a) stretch (b) stretchy (c) stretcher
II Content (d) stretched
a Show students that exists different 4. (a) surprised (b) surprisingly (c)
communicative intentions, such as: surprises (d) surprise
Informative, interpretative, the opinion 5. (a) in (b) on (c) to (d) at
styles, and instructional. 6. (a) pasted (b) taped (c) glued (d)
pinned
III Glossary
Headlines
Leading sentences Activity 3
Chronicle Student will read a similar article and
Editorial identify:
Article o the passive voice
Supplement o The past and present perfect
o Identify the communicative
WHILE READING intention of the article.

Activity 1
Give students the piece of new
“All 33 Chilean miners rescued”.

Activity 2
Read the piece of news and underline the
phrases which answer to the 6 journalistic
questions:
Who? / Where?/ When? / What? / Why?
/How?

Activity 3
Students through the headline will identify
the communicative intention of the article.
o Information
o Interpretation
o Opinion
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Text Miners
underground POST-LISTENING

Skill LISTENING 1° Activity: a sheet of paper from “a to g”

sentences will be given to the students,
Schedule 2 hours
They will listen to the article and they have
Expecting Learning to guess if a-g below are true (T) or false

Student will be able to: (F).

• Predict the plausible content and
formulate hypothesis by listening to
the headline
• Show comprehension of the
information itself and the
communicative intension of the
message using linguistic and
textual keys and tips.
• Recognize journalistic language
• Recognize the functional value of
the text, relating its informative
content with real situations
• Apply inferring strategies
• Show comprehension following the
logical order of the ideas
• Assess and apply the acquired
information in a real situation
a. The miners were trapped underground
for a little under two months. T/F
b. It took almost a day to bring all of the
miners to the surface. T/F
c. None of the miners had any medical
problems when they came up. T/F
d. The article says more people watched
the rescue than the World Cup. T/F
e. There were a few problems with the
rescue which delayed things. T/ F
f. No one has spent longer so deep
underground and survived. T / F

g. Chile’s president said the miners fought

Linguistic Content too much while underground. T/ F
Function
How to face a news paper Activity 2
Give information, give opinion about a Multiple Choice
read piece of new. Students will receive the written article
with some missing words. Those words will
Morphosyntactic be listed bellow. The student will listen to
Report Speech the article again, and they have to fill in
Verbal Form the gap
Passive Voice
Simple Past Perfect All thirty-three miners trapped
underground in Chile for 69 days have
PRE-LISTENING been rescued.
One by (1) ____, over a tense 22 hours, the
Activity 1 men emerged into freedom after
a.- Student will listen to the headline of the spending over two months 700 metres
article. underground. The men were (2) ____ with
Activity 2 wild applause and hugs from rescuers and
they will work in pairs and try to recall as family before being put on a (3) ____
words as they could remember. and taken to hospital for two days of
Activity 3 medical checks. They were all in (4) ____
-Std will list all the word they remember good health, although one had pneumonia
from the listening activity and they will and several had dental problems. Their
dictate them to the rest of the class. The story had gripped the world since the mine
pair of students who gets more word will collapse in August. Their rescue attracted
win. a TV audience (5) ____ a par with Neil
Armstrong’s first steps on the
moon or a football World Cup Final.
II Content several
a.- After the listening activity students will par
name the article as : Informative, applause
interpretative, the opinion styles, or glued
instructional. trapped
checks
III Glossary tense
Headlines attracted
Leading sentences vain
Article hug
Supplement inspiration
spent
WHILE LISTENING climax
life
Activity 1
freed
Student will listen to the article twice.
spirit
“All 33 Chilean miners rescued”.
Activity 3 Student will have to identify
Activity 2
and list the cognate words that they
Student will answer as full as they can
recognized by listening the article.
the following question:
Who? / Where?/ When? / What? / Why?
/How?

Activity 3
Students will retell the story in their own
words
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Text Miners
underground POST-WRITING

Skill WRITING Activity 1

Schedule 4 hours After the read the article students will re-
write it with a different style, that is to
Expecting Learning say, if it is informative they will have to
write an , interpretative one
Student will be able to:
Activity 2
• Predict the plausible content from
the headline and write hypothesis
about it. Students will have to write a summary of
• Paraphrase the information from the in no more than 10 sentences and no
an article
less than 7.
• Rewrite the articles using synonyms
of the journalistic language.
• Summarize the article Activity 3
Students will choose 5 of the words
• Write a similar text.
bellow and will l have to write an
Linguistic Content
informative paragraph.
Function
several
How to face a news paper
par
Write a report
applause
glued
Morphosyntactic
trapped
Report Speech checks
Verbal Form
tense
Passive Voice
attracted
Simple Past Perfect
vain
Punctuation
hug
PRE-WRITING
inspiration
Activity 1 spent
a.- Student will read the article and they climax
will have to invent and write a headline life
for this. freed
Activity 2 spirit
b.- they will work in pairs and write as
many words as they could remember.
Activity 3
c.-Std will list all the word they remember
from the previous activity and they will
spell them to the rest of the class. The
pair of students who makes less mistakes
in spelling will win.
WHILE WRITING

Activity 1
Student will read the article once more.
“All 33 Chilean miners rescued”.
Activity 2
Student will write the answers as full as
they can
Who? / Where?/ When? / What? / Why?
/How?
Activity 3
Students will rewrite the story in their
own words

4TO Medio How to read a newspaper

Text Miners
underground POST-WRITING

Skill SPEAKING Activity 1

Schedule 2 hours Students will discuss the article

Expecting Learning Activity 2

Student will be able to: Students will talk about How this situation
• Analyze the content after reading change the miners life
the article.
• Talk about additional events they
Activity 3
know of the miners. THE CHILE MINERS DISCUSSION
• Discuss about what they would a) Did you like reading this article?
have done if they were in the b) Would you like to be the first or last person
miners´shoes rescued?
• Summarize in few words the story c) What do you think of the Chilean president’s
words?
• Critic the overexposure of the d) What lessons do mines need to learn from
miners now what happened in Chile?
Linguistic Content e) What do you think of the job of a miner?
Function f) What do you think will happen to the miners
How to face a news paper from now?
Give opinion and viewpoints g) Do you think the miners will experience any
problems?
h) How will this experience change the miners?
Morphosyntactic i) Would you go down a mine again after such
Reflective verbs an ordeal?
I think
I believe
In my opinion, etc.

PRE-SPEAKING

Activity 1
a.- Student will read the article and they
will have to give additional information
about the topic.
Activity 2
b.- they will work in pairs and discuss
about what they know about.
Activity 3
c.-Std will list all the word they remember
from the previous activity and they will
spell them to the rest of the class. The
pair of students who makes less mistakes
in spelling will win.
WHILE WRITING
Activity 1
Student will read the article.
“All 33 Chilean miners rescued”.
Activity 2
Working in pairs, Students will create
questions about the article using
Who? / Where?/ When? / What? / Why?
/How?
Activity 3
Students will retell the story in their own
words