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WorksheetsNews 2
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 7mins
What are news stories based on?
Facts
Opinions
Guesses
If a journalist reads an interesting rumour online, they should:
Write and publish a story about it
Ignore it
Find a source to prove it
Before writing a story, you need to find out:
What your best friend thinks about it
The 5 Ws and H
Which page it will be placed on in the newspaper
Quotes in the news reports are from
Popular music
Interviews with members of the public
The lede
The most important thing to do before an interview is:
Talk to your friends
Research the interview topic
Buy some dog food
The inverted pyramid is a good structure to follow because:
It looks nice
It helps editors know what page to use
All the important information comes higher up in the story
When using "quotes" in a story you should:
Make sure you include everything the person said
Change what the person said
Choose the most useful and interesting comments only
In news writing, short words and short sentences are best because:
They are quicker to write and this helps meet deadlines
Readers might not have had a post secondary education
They make stories clear and easy to understand
Which of the following are best left out of a news story?
Statistics – they can be difficult to understand and boring
Bias
Opinion
What part of a news story should sum it up neatly and cover key information?
The last line
A quotation from a source
The intro
Use the inverted (a) to structure your story. This means placing all the important information first and making sure the less significant aspects of the story are ‘down the page’ or towards the end.
I am understanding this news unit so far
Yes, for sure!
No, not really
