2794 newspaper activity

Monica Lee Chui Peng

Teaching Adults English
Assignment 15
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Create a full and detailed lesson plan, complete with all the resources for
teaching advanced students. Choose one of the following topics.
Pre-Planing
Topic

: A Newspaper Article

Level

: Advanced- can express his/her own opinion, agree /disagree with other

opinion and argue opinion with confidence, use conventional social language, talk about
hypothetical situations; both pass and present, begin to understand sarcasm and irony, use
appropriate speech in a wide range of social situations, understand and express humour, write
letters, compositions, reports and summaries.

Age

: Adult

Time : 1 hour
Language Skills

: Speaking and Writing

Language Objectives : to recognize questions: be able to ask and respond to
questions and creates a story
Resources Materials : Worksheets, Envelopes, Scissor, Glues
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In Class
Warm-Up (30 sec) :
1. Paste all the newpaper names on the white board.
2. Examples like The Star, Malay Mail, New Straits Times, Sunday Times,
Malaysiakini, China Press, Borneo Post, Utusan Sarawak, Guang Ming Daily and
Harian Metro.
3. Teacher shout out an alphabet like “T” and let the student count how many
alphabets in total is there at the white boards. Carry on the same method with
alphabet A,Y,I and S.
Pre-task (30 sec) :

IT COMP. SDN. BHD
Regional I.T Sales Executive
Based: Malaysia (Malacca, Negeri Sembilan, Pahang, Penang, Perak,)

Job Description
Marketing & Sales of e-commerce solutions.

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Prospecting customers.

Conduct sales and product presentation.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills including ability to
communicate in English, Chinese and Bahasa Malaysia
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Good I.T troubleshooting and problem solving skills

Provide onsite training for new clients and after sales services.

Interested candidates please apply online or email to IT

Read the advertistment
Answer questions about the Job Advertisement:


1.

What is the name of this company printed in this ad?

2.

What is this company looking for?

3.

Name 3 type of job description in this ad?

4.

How many languages a person should know to get this job?

5.

Where have this company based on, name 3 of them?

6.

If you are interested in this ad, where should you send your resume?

Task 1
MICHEAL JACKSON
Star collapses at his LA home after suffering a massive heart attack
LOS ANGELES — The 50­year­old musical superstar died Thursday, just as he was preparing for what 
would be a series of 50 concerts starting July 13 at London’s famed 02 arena. Jackson had been 
spending hours and hours toiling with a team of dancers for a performance he and his fans hoped 
would restore his tarnished legacy to its proper place in pop.
An autopsy was planned for Friday, though results were not likely to be final until toxicology tests 
could be completed, a process that could take several days and sometimes weeks. However, if a cause 
can be determined by the autopsy, they will announce the results, said Los Angeles County Coroner 
Investigator Jerry McKibben.
Jackson died at UCLA Medical Center after being stricken at his rented home in the posh Los Angeles 
neighborhood of Holmby Hills. Paramedics tried to resuscitate him at his home for nearly three­
quarters of an hour, then rushed him to the hospital where doctors continued to work on him.
“It is believed he suffered cardiac arrest in his home. However, the cause of his death is unknown until 
results of the autopsy are known,” his brother Jermaine said.
Cardiac arrest is an abnormal heart rhythm that stops the heart from pumping blood to the body. It can 

occur after a heart attack or be caused by other heart problems.
Jackson’s death brought a tragic end to a long, bizarre, sometimes farcical decline from his peak in the 1980s,  
when he was popular music’s premier all­around performer, a uniter of black and white music who shattered 
the race barrier on MTV, dominated the charts and dazzled even more on stage.

Step 1- Every student is given this articles each.
Step 2 - Let the students read it themselves silently and then ask them to read out
loud together.
Step 3 - Make sure all student understand the newspaper articles.
Step 4 – Ask them to compose a list of 10 questions that they could ask about this


story (Michael Jackson)

Task 2
‘Flying’ screwdriver nearly hits housewife and kids at Penang flats
GEORGE TOWN: First, a falling stone kills a man.
Now, a “flying” screwdriver narrowly misses a
housewife and two children.
Just 48 hours after Koay Chin Chai died when he was
hit by a palm-sized stone, Sharifah Mydin Kuppiy
nearly met the same fate – this time in full view of
several councillors and pressmen.
The 27-year-old housewife was shocked to see that a
screwdriver had cracked her car’s windscreen at the
Jalan Sungai flats at about 2.45pm.
Narrow miss: Sharifah Mydin showing the damage to her car windscreen after it was hit
by a screwdriver (inset) at the Jalan Sungai flats in Penang yesterday.
Sharifah said if they had stood next to the windscreen, she and her brother’s two children
could have been the next victims of a “flying” object.

“We don’t want to be living in fear everyday,” she said, adding that a flower pot landed
next to her while she was carrying a baby on Oct 19.

Follow Up (30mins)
Photo A

Photo B

Step 1 - Prepare some photo cutting, and A3 size empty paper. Put it in the


envelopes.
Step 2 – Student need to create a story from it. Write an essay with proper
grammar about pictures cuttings that they have received. The pictures can be
jumbled up. Remember to add in the title.
Step 3- Student need to paste the pictures on the A3 size paper. The story that you
wrote must be same as the pictures that you paste.