HOMEWORK 2

Task 3 – ESB Paper 5

Your friend has asked you for some advice about healthy lifestyles.
Write a letter.

Give advice about healthy eating and exercise.

Include examples of what healthy food you like to eat.
Explain why healthy food and exercise are important.

• Use paragraphs. Write about 100 words.

Writing newspaper/magazine
articles
13/05/2020
Objectives:
• Know about direct and indirect speech - grammar
• Recognise features of articles – how to write a good article
• Identify writing exam requirements on writing articles – ESB criteria
• Practice writing an exam type question
What is direct and indirect speech?
Direct speech
She said, “I was at home.” – she said that she was at home.
She said, “I can’t speak French.” – She said that she couldn’t speak French.
She said, “she will go to college next week.”
She said that she would go to college next week.
She says, “I will go to the college.” – She says that she will go to the college.
She said, “you will eat something.” – she said that I would eat something.
I said, “I will eat something.” I said that I would eat something.

Indirect speech
 Direct & Indirect speech
Direct speech repeats
Peter said, "I’m at home."
The politician said, "I will create many
new jobs.“
Alison said, "I went out on Saturday."
Omar said, "I’ve never been to China."
Daniel said, "I can’t speak French."
Pavel said, "I want to go to the
concert.“
Alison says “I go out today.”
Indirect speech
Peter said that he was at home.
The politician said that he would create
many new jobs.
Alison said that she went out on Saturday.
Omar said that he had never been to
China.
Daniel said that he couldn’t speak French.
Pavel said that he wanted to go to the
concert.
Alison says that she goes out today.
What is a newspaper/magazine article?
• Opinion of the writer
• Information
• Story
• Capital letters
• Paragraphs
• Exclamation marks
• Title , headline
 Newspaper/magazine Article
mainly informal
• Informal title
• Punctuation – exclamation mark - !, ?, -,
• Paragraphs
• Direct speech – “……..” – 1 sentence
• Compound sentences – and, but, so
• Complex sentences – although, however, which
• Informal language – contractions – it’s, there’re, I’m
• Mainly past tense
 Example of an article
Giant bookshops opening everywhere
Have you visited your local shopping centre recently and noticed a new retailer amongst the
shops there? Dave Pringle reports on the new book superstores opening around the UK -
over 35 in the last 12 months. He asks why this is happening. What is attracting people to
these kinds of shops?
Ozgur Durson, a regular shopper in his local book superstore, said “It’s not really the size of
these stores that is important to me, or the latest books it’s the wonderful café where I can
relax and have a look at my favourite magazines.”
However, shopping in these new book superstores isn’t a pleasure for everyone. It can
actually be the opposite. Jasna Khans views are typical of many. “I loathe the huge
bookshops. Books for You has just opened in my high street and in my opinion its unfriendly
and far too noisy. In contrast, I much prefer smaller shops because there is always someone
to assist you. The big ones sell all sorts of CDs and DVDs and they always play loud music
throughout the store, which in all honesty gives me a headache!”
 Check list

• https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z2yycdm/articles/z2gk9qt

• When you are writing your own newspaper article:

• Make your headline short and snappy.
• In the first sentence sum up what the story is about.
• Write your article in the past tense - mostly.
• Split your newspaper article up into paragraphs to help the reader clearly understand the
information.
• If you use quotes to make your report more interesting, don't forget to use speech marks!
• Fill your newspaper article with both facts and opinions. Facts give the reader all of the
information they need by using the 5 Ws as who, what, why, where, when