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Vol. 18, February 2007 ISSUES
Global and Mail (Canada ) http://www.theglobeandmail.com/
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL http://online.wsj.com/public/us
THE Washington Times http://www.washtimes.com
After making sure every student’s computer is atthe web site you
asked for, have students to locatedifferent topic areas — front
page, weather, sports,classified, entertainment, etc. Next, go back
to thenews section; assign well-known headlineinternational news
and ask students to findinformation about the news by looking
throughdifferent countries/newspapers. Then ask students toselect
one article, use skimming and scanningtechniques, and summarize the
article. Finally, selectseveral students to report their summaries
and thencompare theirs with other students’ summaries..
Focus Practice: (20 minutes)
Activity I : Pass out a selected e-paper article toeach pair of
students. Students will discover that thefirst sentence from each
paragraph has beendeleted. Ask students to put the sentences back
intothe correct places in the text. When finished, haveeach pair of
students discuss their answers with
another pair.
Activity II : Give each pair of students anotherarticle — this
time jumble the paragraphs for thestudents to re-order.
Activity III :Give each pair a third article. Highlightsome
words in the text and ask students to deducetheir meanings from the
context.
Assessment: As a follow-up assignment, have stu-
dents locate an article from e-paper to practice skim-ming and
scanning skills. Then students should sum-marize the article. They
need to print out the originalarticle from e-paper and then turn in
the assignment
for the next class.
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