Newspaper in Education

Pada sesi yang pertama, para murid didedahkan kepada bahagian-bahagian tertentu di
dalam Surat Khabar Bahsa Inggeris seperti headlines, subheading, blurb, advertisement dan
lain-lain. Seksyen-sekyen di dalam surat khabar turut diperkenalkan seperti national, world,
entertainment dan lain-lain.
Activity 1: Fun with Nouns
Skill: Student correctly identifies proper and common nouns
Review the definition of a noun with your class. (A noun is a person, place, animal or thing.)
Pupils need to find 15 proper nouns and 15 common nouns.
Activity 2: Newspaper treasure hunt
For this activity you will need a pile of old newspapers, enough to distribute amongst teams
of 4-5 students. Write a list of articles / words / pictures which the students need to find, and
give teams a copy of the list. Tell them to cut out their 'treasures' and glue them next to the
appropriate word in the list (or make a note of the page number). Possible list:

A job advert

Some good news

Some bad news

Reference to a famous political figure

News about a celebrity

Weather forecast

News about a sport

Story about another country

Favourite news item

Recipe

Cartoon

Activity 3: Picture Stories

Skill: Student organizes ideas and information for creative writing.
The goal is to use pictures from the paper to tell a story. This activity gives students a
chance to explore how photographs can tell stories. Have students look through the photos
in today's paper. Students then choose three photos and cut them out without captions. They
can paste each picture on a separate sheet of paper and staple the sheets together in the
order they will appear in the story. Finally, they should write out each story in the form of
captions below each picture.