The purpose
of this exercise is to:
1.
take notes
2. follow
instructions 3. practise skimming and scanning pages of writing to
find information
PART
ONE - Browsing Newspapers Online Look
at today's news and answer the questions below.
1. What
is today's headline? 2.
Look at the categories below and decide which category the story
belongs to. (You don't need to read the full story, you can tell from the
headline and the abstract.
Abstract = brief summary) The category of this story is
WORLD NEWS
THE AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY
AUSTRALIAN POLITICS
HUMAN
INTEREST
DISASTER
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTE
ENVIRONMENT
SPORT
OTHER
3. The
Age is a Melbourne newspaper. What is Melbourne's weather today?
PART
TWO - Note taking
4. Look around the page and find a story that interests
you. Read it and take some notes so that you can tell some one else
about the story. Use the space below to write your notes.
a. Where
did the story take place?
b. Who is the story about?
c. When did it happen?
d.
What happened?
e. Write
out any new Vocabulary.
f. What
is the source of the material?
(In this section you need to write the name of the paper, the date,
the title of the article and the writer's name (if available)
