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Name: Jesús Samuel Araujo Mundo Tuition: al03026518

Course name: English level lll Teacher's name: Edgar Ricardo


Dorantes Vertiz
Module: 2 Challenges Activity: 8 The news
Date: October 05 of 2022
Bibliography:
 Tecmilenio Univertity. (2022). Challenge 8: The News. Recovered from:
https://cursos.tecmilenio.mx/courses/107977/pages/my-course?
module_item_id=395137

1. Read the following news headings:


Pay attention to the way it is written and the reason for it, discuss why
news headings are presented this way.

2. Rewrite the headings to full sentences using the correct tense of


passive voice. Add articles, prepositions and any other necessary
word.

1. A winning lottery ticket was found on the street by a kid.


2. A woman was given a role in a movie after meeting her celebrity crush.
3. A man was invited to a famous soccer team after he was seen playing on
the street.
3. Record a 3 – 5 minute video where you tell what you think might have
happened in each heading. You should give general ideas about each
heading and last 1 – 1:30 minutes in each. Use modals of deduction.

Video: https://youtu.be/veu48cnACb8

4. Choose one of the headings in exercise 1. Write a 500 – 700 word news
report, that is, expand your ideas from exercise 3. Your news report
should include passive voice and modals of deduction.

A ticket of lottery was founded by a kid named James Clark in the north of
California and he tried to check if it was a winning ticket of lottery and he must be
really lucky because it was and he and his family won about of 1000 dollars, but he
can´t did it alone, he only has just 7 years, so his mother might help him to ask for
the money, when the son and mother went for the prize, leaving the building, they
saw an advertisement about a trip to the beach, so with the money they went to
buy the tickets for the trip and have a nice vacation.. In other news we have a role
in a movie that was given by the celebrity Tom Alland to woman that met, and he
was her crush, she must be very lucky to know her celebrity crush that’s just
awesome, she said that she can’t imagine, she is living a dream, the famous artist
met the woman and remembered that a girl was needed for a film that was being
prepared for next year, so he took her to the director to do a test and sure enough,
they gave her the role, definitely that was a great day for her. And to conclude with
this news, a player was integrated into a famous team in the major leagues after
the captain saw a video where he demonstrated his skills in a street game.
According to the statistics, this player in his beginning has already had many more
achievements than other players worldwide.

5. Identify the passive voice in AT LEAST 5 sentences from your news


report in exercise 4. Write the passive voice in bold and write the tense
in which they are.

 A role in a movie that was given by the celebrity


 Famous soccer team invited after seen playing in a street game.
 His mother might help him.
 They bought a ticket after collecting the money
 The player was having better matches than other players

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