The main activity of the television news project is the writing of the script. This links well with the language classroom. If you would like to produce a television news programme using your mother tongue then you can take more care about the language of the news article. Encourage the students to work on formal language and write precise and informative scripts. The “W” questions can help to develop a good news script: What? When? Where? Who? ....
Decide on a theme for the whole programme and assign different news articles to different groups (three or four students per group) to make a full news programme. Themes can be related to different school subjects, school events, community events … You can also work on a combination of foreign language and other school subjects. Keep each news article below two minutes to keep the overall programme interesting. Students can write their scripts as homework and record and / or edit the material after school if you are short of time. Allocate different roles such as presenter, camera, sound and director before you start the production.
| Introduction | Description | Lesson plan | Examples |
written by Armin Hottmann, © 2010 copyright by divisproject.eu, creative commons
