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TU4L6S2NEWSREPORT
TU4L6S2NEWSREPORT
TU4L6S2NEWSREPORT
Instructions:
1. Play the video related to the 12th of the worst places to live in the U.S.
2. Download the typescript about the 12th of the worst places to live in the U.S.
3. Select 2 places that are mentioned in the video example: Modesto California and Detroit Michigan.
4. You are a reporter for an American broadcast (NBC, ABC, FOX, Univision, etc.) report what the narrator said about the places that
you have selected.
5. Use reported speech for creating your report.
5. Record your participation by using Vocaroo online tool: Vocaroo.com
6. Upload and post your participation:
Example: Oscar Torres report.
7. If you need help about using reported speech go to Teacher’s content in content section from Unitec Blackboard and download the
supportive material U4.
Example about my participation: RECORD YOUR VOICE.
Original typescript:
Modesto, California. Despite being home to the largest winery in the world, the unemployment rate was nearly 13% in 2014. Modesto ranks
number one in the country for car theft and out of 200,000 residents, up to 10,000 are reported to be gang members.
TEACHER’S ADVICE:
We use:
SAID: For reporting short messages.
TOLD: For reporting long messages.
EXAMPLES:
A) Open you book on page 20--- Teacher said that we opened our book on page 20.
B) I am going to narrate my last vacation in Portland Oregon...- She told us that she was going to narrate her last vacation in Portland
Oregon.
Reporting in past:
Present—past
Will -- Would
Have --- Had
Is going to --- was going to