Newspapers: Reading and Writing

Curriculum topic

Grade

Grade 8

Subject

Английский язык

Term

2

Lesson

№ 45

Learning objectives

• 8.4.3.1understand evidence within familiar general and reading topics, including some longer texts
• 8.5.3.1write various familiar general and academic topics with uniform grammatical competence

Sample questions

1. 1
   What do we call the title printed in large letters at the top of a news article?

   the caption the column the editorial the headline
2. 2
   A person who writes news articles for a newspaper is called a ...

   editor journalist publisher reader
3. 3
   Which sentence expresses an opinion rather than a fact?

   The new park is the most beautiful in the city. The park has fifty trees. The park is in the city centre. The park opened on Monday.