Exercises

Look in a newspaper for six brief articles (or pieces of articles), of between 100 and 150 words. Make the following with the articles:

- A "fill in blanks" text activity with four missing words for the student to fill in. Use help windows for any words that are not easily identifiable from the context.

- Another "fill in blanks" activity, where four targets are set in form of a list of options.

- An "identify words" text activity where all nouns in a text have to be marked.

- An "order paragraphs" text activity. Here it is important that you use a text made up of a logical sequence of short paragraphs.

- An "order words" activity, where ten words in the text are shuffled.

- A pack that joins the six activities together.

All the activities and the pack should be saved in the practical exercises folder for module 3.

When you have finished, compress the materials in a ZIP file and send it to the course tutor.

To find the texts you could use a conventional newspaper or the electronic edition that most newspapers offer on the internet.

If you use the electronic edition, you can take advantage and use some of the images that accompany the articles and insert one in a box in the activities. Make sure that the images are quite small so that enough space is left for the body of the activity.