IGCSE/GCSE Language focus work on Newspaper language

An ideal resource to help GCSE or IGCSE students understand the many complex language and structural choices which go into a newspaper story. Lots of focussed tasks to help with class control - ideal for NQTS! The slides structure the lesson, but you could easily add in worksheets and Q and A to customise the resource. I got the students to undertake their own research into newspaper leader pages - some slides show how this can be displayed to the rest of the class. I used this for IGCSE and also (slightly adapted) AQA GCSE Language students as they struggled to grasp what newspaper techniques and language were. Task 1 of the 0500 course often asks them to write newspaper reports, so I used this as a taster to help familiarise them with genre. Newspaper extracts are also common in the GCSe Language courses. Note on slide one: 'P.A.L.S' stands for 'Purpose of text, Audience and readership, Language choices and stylistic features.