News Report

GUIDELINE
MAIN STEPS
1. FOLLOW THIS LINK AND CHOOSE A PIECE OF NEWS
HT TPS://BREAKINGNEWSENGLISH.COM/ISSUES.HTML
2. M A K E A R E S E A R C H : A C C E S S T H E N E W S A N D R E A D I T C A R E F U L LY.
3. F O L L O W T H E G U I D E L I N E A N D M A K E YO U R P P T
4. W R I T E YO U R O W N « P L OT »
5. R E H E A R S E A N D C H E C K YO U R T I M E M A N A G E M E N T
6. U P L O A D T H E P P T O N TO A U L E S ( B E F O R E D E C E M B E R 9 T H )
PPT Presentation must include:

Cover slide with the topic, student´s names, school level

General outline
New vocabulary
Image(s) depicting the news
Main information
Time extension: 2, 5 - 3 minutes
Bibliography
 PPT PRESENTATION
FORMAT
1. Introduce yourself and prepare your audience
2. Provide your reasons for having chosen that piece of news
3. Contextualize the general topic
4. Advance some difficult vocabulary
5. Balance the words quantity  highlight key words or ideas
6. Use reported speech and reporting verbs: admit, state, claim,
complain, agree, suggest
7. Finish stating your own opinion on that issue.
8. Little text and much speaking
9. Thank your audience
Do
Use more formal language.
Use short, simple sentences to express your ideas clearly.
Pause from time to time and don’t speak too quickly. This allows the listener to
understand your ideas. Include a short pause after each idea.
Speak clearly and at the right volume.
Have your notes ready in case you forget anything.
Practice your presentation. If possible record yourself and listen to your presentation.
If you can’t record yourself, ask a friend to listen to you. Does your friend understand
you?
Make your opinions very clear. Use expressions to give your opinion.
◦ I think... / I don’t think ...
I believe... / I don’t believe ...
In my opinion, For me, Personally, I think ...

Look at the people who are listening to you.

DON’T
Write out the whole presentation and learn every word by heart or read
it.
Use very informal language.
Speed up.
Only look at your notes or screen. It’s important to look up at your
listeners when you are speaking.
Neglect your body language.
 USEFUL LANGUAGE
Introduce yourself:
Hi everyone. I’m…../I’d like to start by introducing myself:…

Explain what your presentation is about at the beginning:

I’m going to talk about ...
I’d like to talk about ...
The main focus of this presentation is ...

Explain the reasons that have led you to choose the topic:
Basically, I have decided to speak about…. because / due to the fact that…/ The reason why I have chosen this news is because…

Use these expressions to order your ideas:

First of all, ...
Firstly, ...
Then, ...
Secondly, ...
Next, ...
Finally, ...
Lastly, ...
To sum up, ...
In conclusion, ...

Use these expressions to add more ideas from the same point of view:
In addition, ...
What’s more, ...
Also, ...
Added to this, ...

To introduce the opposite point of view you can use these words and expressions:
However, ...
On the other hand, ...
Then again, ...