Lesson video

Hi, everyone.

It's me, Ms. Chu Today is the start of a new unit.

It's the first lesson of the new unit and in this lesson, we will look at the features of a new text type, and this text type that we're going to look at today are newspaper reports.

So before we begin, make sure you are in a quiet space, you're away from distractions and then we may begin.

This is your chance now to go and get the things that you need for this lesson if you haven't done so already.

You need an exercise book or piece of paper, a pencil, and your thinking head switched on.

Pause the video if you haven't had a chance to get these things.

Let's look at the agenda.

We will be starting our lesson with a writing warmup then we will look at text, that new text type then look further in detail at the features of the text type and then you will have your own little task to do at the end.

Our writing warmup today is, we're going to look at the different word classes.

We have nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs.

It's just a little recap on what we already know.

I wonder if you remember the raps for each of these word classes.

A noun, a noun is a PPT, a person, place or thing, your turn, a person, place or thing.

Okay.

Adjectives, adjectives, an adjective describes a word, it tells you what it's like, your turn, an adjective, what it's like, Verbs, a verb is a doing or a being word.

If you do it or you are it, then the word is a verb.

Your turn.

If you do it.

Brilliant! Adverbs, an adverb describes a verb.

It often ends in L Y, your turn.

Amazing.

Okay.

Now let's put this into use.

Turn me off.

Your writing warmup is, you're going to try and remember your raps for each of your word classes, so I remember the noun, the noun is a PPT, a person, place or thing, person, place or thing, okay.

So it's a person, place or thing and I need to look at my words and make sure that I can categorise them, so I'll say the word and you can say after me, just to check you know what the words are and how to say them.

Newspaper, reporter, crime, interviewed, chased, quickly, questioned, unhurt.

Pause the video and pop them in the right word class categories.

Amazing.

Hopefully you've had a chance to do that.

Let's have a look at the answers.

So for the noun, a noun is a PPT, a person, place or thing, person, reporter, newspaper, thing, crime, thing, verb, a verb is a doing or a being word.

If you do it or you are it, then the word is a verb.

Chased is a doing word, interviewed, doing, questioned, doing.

Adjectives, an adjective describes a word.

It tells you what it's like.

Unhurt, an adverb describes a verb, it often ends in L Y, so quickly goes in there.

Brilliant.

Let's look at the text type.

So what is a newspaper report? Hopefully all of you have come across a newspaper, although nowadays, maybe newspapers are written digitally, so you wouldn't come across as much, but I would still say that it's prevalent.

This is a very old newspaper, if you have a look, who can spot the date? Very small writing, can you point to it? Saturday, June 20th, 1919, wow, okay.

And it's and the headline "Treaty signed: war over", big headline to draw you in.

A newspaper report is a news story found in newspapers.

News is new information that's why it's called newspaper report because it is new information and it's usually about something that has just happened.

Here are some more examples on your screen of what other newspapers could look like.

They are designed to provide people with information about what is happening all around the world.

You can have newspapers that are just local, national or global.

There are two main types of newspapers, shall we have a look to see what they are? I'm in the way again.

You have the more formal type of newspaper which is called a broadsheet.

Repeat after me, broadsheet, and a broadsheet newspaper is normally a little bit more serious, it has the serious news.

So for example, if you look at this one, it has news about stocks and shares, for me, that's very boring, but I know a lot of people who are really interested in that and it's just, it's still about the news globally, but it's just a bit more serious.

Then you have the less formal newspapers which are called tabloid newspapers and that has a little bit more of a gossip tone.

So it would have news about celebrities and news about funny stories that might have happened or ridiculous stories that might have happened, less, I would say less serious news.

So one is more serious and one is less serious.

One, the one that is more serious is more formal, the one that is less serious is less formal.

What are the key features of a newspaper report? Because that you will see that they are very different, for example, to a narrative or it's different to a diary or it's different to a poem.

So what are the key features? Main features of a newspaper report are these things, there's a headline, I've talked about this already.

There's a big headline at the top of the front of the newspaper report to draw the reader in that the report is based on facts, it's not based on someone's opinion, it's based on facts and evidence.

Speaking of evidence, we normally backup our story with photograph to support the evidence and a caption which tells you a bit about the photograph, then an introductory paragraph, direct and reported speech or we call indirect speech.

So headlines, as I've said, a very important text on your page, they need to grab the attention of your reader and lead them further into the report to make them want to read more.

Here's an example, high speed car chase in the middle of lockdown.

That makes me think, Oh my goodness, what happened in the middle of lockdown? Why were cars chasing and why were they speeding away from something? And then here's just a little snippet to get, to keep you interested.

Yesterday afternoon, a frenzy of activity was observed outside Buckingham Palace as three police vehicles were involved in a car chase.

Very exciting.

I'm going to pause the video now and I want you to see if you can spot another example of the key feature, so I've already said that the key feature, one of the key features is a big headline, a big title to draw the reader in.

Can you spot another example of a key feature on this page? Pause the video and have a go.

Yeah, so it's got the introductory paragraph and that's when you introduce very briefly to the reader what has happened in the whole report, you kind of give a brief little introduction and within that, there are the 5Ws, who, what, where, when and why.

For example, on Friday afternoon at approximately 3:30 PM, a high speed car chase between the police and an unidentified suspect outside Buckingham Palace sent shock waves across the city.

It's got my who in there, the purple, who, who did it involve? Who does this report involve? It involves the police and an unidentified suspect, okay.

What exactly happened? What was it that happened? Oh, it was a high speed car chase.

Where did it happen? Mainly it started anyway outside Buckingham Palace, and probably will be around that sort of area.

When did it happen? Friday afternoon around 3:30, and do we know why it happened? Sometimes we don't always include the why in our introductory paragraph.

Does this one have a why? Don't think so.

We don't know why the suspect was being chased by the police, but that's fine because we will read on, that's what the rest of the newspaper report will be about.

Facts, I've already mentioned this.

It needs to be a recount of events in a factual manner using formal language.

We cannot recount events if we don't know exactly what's happened, we need to know for sure it's facts, using facts to tell our recount, to recount our events.

For example, on Friday afternoon at approximately 3:30 PM, there was a high speed car chase in London, all factual, no opinions at all.

In a newspaper report, you might want to quote one of the eyewitnesses or by-stander that would have seen something that had happened or were there at the scene of the crime or the event.

The reporting of speech by repeating the actual words of the speaker is like this, in inverted commas.

"I saw a car chase from my window," she said.

Using inverted commas to directly report the speech.

You also have indirect speech which I've mentioned before, also called reported speech.

It is a means of expressing the content of statements, questions, or other utterances without quoting them explicitly.

So this time you don't use inverted commas, you're just saying what they had said, but not directly, indirectly.

For example, he said that he saw the car chase.

He said that he saw the car chase, so the word here would be that he said that he saw the car chase.

If we took out that, we would have to use in inverted commas, he said, inverted commas, he saw the car chase.

That's the main difference between those two.

A photograph, why might we need to include a photograph in our newspaper report? Well, it helps to enhance, to promote the credibility of the stories, so it makes us want to believe it a bit more.

It is also evidence to show that what actually happened was real, to show the authenticity of a news story, to show that it was authentic, it was real and give proof of an event that occurred.

Right, quick check now, what are the 5Ws? Do you remember? Does it capture the overall content of the report or does it tell you the eye witness statements? Amazing.

Captures the overall content of the report Well done.

Do photographs provide evidence that an event occurred? Yes or no? Show me your thumbs up or down.

Yes, well done.

Indirect speech, do they contain inverted commas? Show me your thumbs up or your thumbs down.

That's right, they don't, it's only the direct speech that has the inverted commas.

Well done.

Now, we're onto your independent task.

I would like you to watch this clip because the newspaper report that we will eventually write at the end of this unit is based on this film clip.

Now, remember when you watch it, you have to watch it as if you are a bystander, you don't really know what's happening.

Okay.

I'm going to start the video.

Keep it steady.

It's a web.

Go Spidey, go! Whoo! You got trouble.

Super exciting.

Now, yes, the video is based in New York, but we're going to just use our imaginations and just pretend that ours is based in London.

So, really quickly now, pausing the video.

I would like you to point at number one, so number one, what do you think number one is? A headline, a caption or a photograph? Point to the word, then point to number two and match what you think number two is and number three.

Pause the video and have a go.

Okay, these are the answers.

So number one's the headline, yes, Spiderman captures fleeing robbers.

Number two was a photograph to show us, to give us evidence of it happening and where it was happening.

Number three is the caption which tells you little bit about the photo, the crash scene in the city centre of East Greenwich, the night of the event.

Now is your turn.

Again, you're going to write on your piece of paper who, what, where, when and why, and then next to or underneath your paper where you've put the heading of each one, who, what, where and why, I want you to write down who did it involve? What happened? Where did it happen? When did it happen and why did it happen? I'm going to read it to you, now.

Last night, two men, who investigators believe had robbed four restaurants at gunpoint, were apprehended after a frenetic police car chase which caused chaos and destruction in East Greenwich.

Pause the video and find me the who, what, where, when and why? Excellent.

Hopefully you put the same as I do.

For my who, I said it was two men, 'cause we know it involved two men, for the what, I said that they robbed four restaurants at gunpoint, for where, I have East Greenwich, for when, I said it was last night and why, I don't know yet so I've left.

Now what you're going to do is you're going to write out examples of direct speech, first start with that.

Do you remember what direct speech has in it? Yes, that's right, inverted commas, so look out for inverted commas and then this is the bit that's a bit tricky because there isn't something like punctuation to look out for, indirect speech, you need to look out for something that someone has said, but that hasn't used inverted commas, pause the video and have a go at writing these down.

Okay, these are my answers for direct speech and the purple I've looked out for inverted commas, A frightened local resident, Steve Glub, who was walking home from work reported, inverted commas, "The Diner Bandits are driving like maniacs down the street towards us.

It was absolute chaos." A number of other bystanders commented that they saw a dark figure, so this is the part where we're not sure because we didn't look out for punctuation, but we know that someone has said that by the word commented that they saw, so they commented, so something that they said that they saw a dark figure, believed to be Spiderman swinging through the air from building to building above the speeding car.

And then the last part which is in inverted commas, direct speech, "Thank goodness he was there," explained Jane Horlock who observed the scene from her flat.

So, well done.

We're going to look through what we've learned today, so our writing warmup, we looked at different word classes and you categorise words into their appropriate or accurate word classes.

Then we looked at text type of a newspaper report, and then we looked at the features of a newspaper report, for example, a headline, a photo, a caption to go with a photo.

We looked at direct and indirect speech so similar but different because one has inverted commas and one doesn't, and then we completed our own little task on trying to identify and find these features in a report ourselves, so well done and congratulations, you have completed your lesson.

If you would like to, please share your learning with a parent or carer and I look forward to teaching you our next lesson.