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Good morning, everyone.

My name is MisS Weerasekera.

Welcome to lesson nine in our unit about Writing a News Report.

In today's lesson, we're going to be writing a middle builds drama.

And for the purposes of this news report, that middle is going to be the interview between the news reporter and Apollo, where we go to find out some of the emotion, some of the details, and some of the opinions that Apollo has about this case.

If you would go to be interviewed for something, what do you think you might be interviewed about? Is there something that's really interesting that's ever happened to you? Or are you an expert on something? Those are the kinds of things that you might be interviewed for in a news report.

Can you think of anything? If someone was going to interview me, they might interview me about having a pug because I'm a bit of an expert in that.

In today's lesson, you're going to need a pen and pencil, and a piece of paper to write to amazing middle on.

If you have the piece of paper or exercise book that you write your introduction on, then you might want to carry on after that.

You're going to need your brain to think of all the amazing moments and ways in which we can build a drama during this interview.

If you do not have a pen or pencil or a piece of paper, pause here, and then press play when you've got it and we can get started.

In today's lesson, we're going to start off with an oral game called detail, emotion, opinion.

And this is going to help us practise answering the types of questions that we're going to be writing in our interview later.

We're then going to recap our boxing up plan and the three questions we're asking Apollo and the ways in which we think he will answer.

We're then going to write the interview in each of those three sections, and then you're going to have a go at independently finishing off your own, and then using your own voice to speak it out loud and to see if that can help you to notice any spelling, punctuation or grammar that you might need to correct.

For our oral game today, it's called detail, emotion opinion.

So I've got three questions here.

In your own words, what do you think happened? How did that make you feel? And who do you think is responsible? So the first one is about the detail, the second one is about the emotion, and the third one is about the opinion.

Now these questions are similar to the type of questions the news reporter is going to ask a Apollo in our news report in the middle later.

We're going to imagine how someone might answer in a different situation.

So the two pictures I have are of a very sad looking boy and a teddy bear.

And his teddy bear has gone missing.

A little bit like Apollo's harp or Apollo's missing item.

We're going to imagine that this boy is being interviewed in the news reports about his missing teddy.

And we're going to make up a backstory, or think about how he might answer these questions.

I'm going to model this for you, and then you're going to pause afterwards and have a go yourself.

So, in your own words, what do you think happened? "It's really hard for me to know.

I know that I had the teddy last night when I was asleep in bed, and then I know that I left him on my bed when I went to school this morning.

As far as I know, there's not really been anyone in my house apart from my little brother who sometimes sneaks around by my room.

But he's been told before, not to go in there and not to touch anything that belongs to me.

So surely it wouldn't be him." How did that make you feel? "I just feel so lost and lonely without that teddy.

I've had it since the day I was born, and not having it by my side it makes me feel really anxious and worried.

And I'm worried that I might never ever get it back again." Who do you think is responsible? "I'm not sure.

And even though I hope that my brother wouldn't do it, he has been known to take things from my room before and hide them and not even give them back when my mum tells him to.

So if I had to choose one person I think it would be my brother." Okay, so I have just used my imagination there to think of how the little boy might answer these questions about his missing teddy bear.

I would like you to pause here and have a go at asking and answering those questions yourself coming up with your own ideas.

Fantastic.

Okay.

So even though this is different from our interview with a Apollo, thinking of those ideas in a way in which someone might answer those three different types of news reporter question will help us when we're trying to do a Apollo's later.

We're now going to recap our boxing up plan from earlier in the unit to remind us about the different questions and the different answers that we have already come up with.

Remember, you might be changing yours because you might change the missing item, but you might also want to answer as Apollo in a slightly different way.

So make sure your brain is ready and working, and you've got your own boxing up plan if you still have it, so that you can refresh yourself about what you want to write.

For our middle today, we are going to be focusing on these three sections.

Okay, in our last lesson, we looked at the introductions.

So we had the news reporter introducing themselves, and then we had the five Ws introducing the news report.

And that was all to hook the viewers into the new story.

Now we're getting into the main body.

So you want to build drama and to provide lots more detail.

Now, our middle will look a little bit different in a news report than it will in a normal story.

'Cause we're not going to have a certain number of events actually happening, but we are going to have questions that give us lots more depth to the events of the story and the case.

So we know our first interview question is about the detail.

So the interviewer is asking, "Will you be able to bring it back out the sun?' Because the sun has disappeared.

And then Apollo is explaining that he cannot bring the sun back out because he does not have his harp.

We're then going to have the next question, which is going to be about the emotion.

So the news reporter is going to ask Apollo, why is the harp is so important to him? And how is he feeling now the harp is gone? So Apollo then explains the importance of the harp.

Remember, you might have a different item here that you're choosing, but I'm going to talk about the harp, He says it plays beautiful music that makes him and everybody else happy.

And he explains the how upset he is now that it's gone and how that's making the sun go away.

And then our final question is the opinion.

So the opinion here is who does Apollo hold responsible? Does he hold Hades responsible? And his answer is that he does.

And he blames Hades for the disappearance of Persephone a few years ago.

And he also says that he hopes that in that case, Zeus stepped in to make an agreement with Hades, and he hopes that he'll do the same for the this to help get the harp back.

Okay, so the purpose of the middle part in this interview, is to give more detail, to build a bit of drama, to give us more information about why this case is important, to add in some emotion, and that helps the viewers at home to connect to the case.

And to also perhaps to add some mystery about the idea of who is this number one suspect.

So we're going to be doing those three questions from the news reporter and the three answers from Apollo in our writing today.

We are now going to have a think about the features of our news report.

We're going to split this into two sections.

We're going to think about the features to do with the content of what we write, and also the style and how we're going to write it.

Firstly, we're going to think about the five Ws.

Now the five Ws are: what happened? Who was involved? Where did it happen? When did it happen? And why did it happen? If we follow these questions we're are planning our news report, we'll make sure that we include all of the key information that the viewers of news report will need.

It's really important as a journalist that you've covered all of these bases to make sure that it is a well rounded story you are sharing.

You haven't missed out on any key facts.

But as well as our content, we also need to think about the style of a news report, and how we really connect with the viewers or the readers.

Then that we're going to think about the three assets.

The first of the three is short.

You want a concise news report that gets to the point.

We don't want to include lots of extra unnecessary information or because we want to make sure that it is easy for people understand.

Building on from that, we also want to make sure that the language is easy for understand.

There are so many different types of people that might be watching or listening.

And we want to make sure that they understand so that the language is simple.

Thirdly, spot on.

We need to make sure that our punctuation, spelling and grammar is all correct.

Especially as news report is often being read out, the grammar and punctuation is incorrect, it can make it difficult to read, or we lose the flow of our speech.

We also need to make sure that our facts are correct.

Now, this is a fictional news report.

And that means that we've made the facts up.

So we can't really go and check them, but we can do is make sure that our facts are sensible and that they all make sense as we flow through our piece, that we're not jumping around from facts.

Don't connect, or don't make sense.

If we can remember the five Ws and the three Ss, we're going to have a well-rounded and engaging news report that people are really excited.

Remember that we are also writing in a play script style.

This is also because it is being said out loud.

We need it to be really clear who is saying what, and when they are saying it.

To write in our play script style, we put the name of the speaker before each thing that they say, followed by a colon, and we start a new line each time a different character speaks.

Here's an example I shared with you earlier in the unit.

I put Reporter and a colon before what the reporter says.

And I started a new line when Apollo started speaking.

And I put Apollo followed by colon, and then what he would say.

That would continue in the interview.

And this is really important today because we're going to have the reporter and then Apollo asking and answering questions one after each other.

So we just have to remember to make sure we start that new line each time, and we put the name of the person speaking followed by that colon.

We are going to start writing our interview today, and we're going to write it in three sections.

One question and answer at a time.

I'm going to talk you through some of the sentence stems, I'm going to model it to you, and then I'm going to give you the opportunity to write to yourself.

At the end, there will be some more time for you to finish it off and to read it out loud and check any mistakes to make sure it's all correct, like our third C.

Our first question is this, it's about the detail.

And our reporter is asking a Apollo what's happened, and will he be able to bring the sun back out? And Apollo is going to explain why he cannot bring the sun back out until he has his harp back.

I'm going to model this to you now, and then it will be your turn afterwards.

Before I start writing, I'm going to write the unit number and lesson number and learning objective.

So we are in unit 15 and this is lesson nine.

Our learning objective is to right middle that builds drama.

So our first part, we are going to have our first question, which is our details question.

And if you remember, we are using our play script style.

The first thing I have to write is.

Reporter, like that with my colon, okay? So now that I've done Reporter, I'm going to ask that first question.

Before the reporter actually ask the question, they normally introduce the person they're going go to interview.

So I'm going to write, with me now, I have Apollo himself to shed some more light on the case.

Okay, to shed some more light, there are some other things we can say to add some more detail to give us some more information, to tell us how he's feeling about the case, to give us some insight into the case.

It's completely up to you.

You can change that phrase to have whatever you would like to change that phrase to.

And now we're going to go into our first question.

So can you remember what were you going to ask Apollo about? It was to do with the sun.

That's it, yep, from our boxing plan, we were going to ask him about if he could bring that sun back.

So we're saying we noticed the sun's disappeared, can he help to bring it back? As it's our first question we might start with, firstly, I'd like to ask you about the disappearance of the.

What is it that's gone missing? The sun, that's it? What could you write here? Can you do anything to bring it back? Can you bring it back? Can you help us by bringing it back? Perhaps instead of can you, you could say, what could you do to bring it back? What are the chances of the sun coming back out? Okay, it's up to you, what you would like your question to be.

I would say, can you do anything to bring it back out? What do I need to put at the end of my question? That's it, a question mark.

Okay, now, can you remember from what I said about the play script style? Now that Apollo is speaking, he's a different character, what do I need to do? Right, I need to start a new line.

I'm going to start here.

And I also need to.

That's correct, put his name and put the colon.

And that's how play script style, isn't it? So what are we going to say, and what is Apollo going to say in response to this? Is he going to be able to bring the sun back out? No, not without his stolen item.

So you might be doing harp like me, you might be doing a different stolen item.

So make sure that you change it if you are writing about a different thing to me.

So I'm going to write, as the god of music the harp is.

Let me just put harp here because you might change that to something else.

The harp is, or the item is.

Why is this so important to him as the god of music? The harp is.

Yep, it is how I play music, it's how I make people happy, it's how I keep my own mood up.

It's up to you what you want to put.

As the god of music, the harp is how I cheer myself and other people up.

Without it.

Okay, without it, what what can he not do without it? Without it I feel really.

How do you think he's going to feel? Distraught, sad, depressed.

Yeah, you can decide.

Distraught, and when I feel way, I do not have the energy to bring.

What does he not have the energy to do? To bring.

That it, the sun back out.

Now, you might write something slightly different.

You might say, when I feel that way, I do not have the desire, the motivation, wherever you want to write, to make the sunshine, or to make it daytime, or to bring back the light.

You can choose what you want to put there, okay? So maybe a final sentence here in answer this question, until I get my harp.

I'm going to underline that because you might be doing a different item, My harp back.

What's not going to happen until he gets his harp back? I won't feel happy enough to bring back the sun.

It will stay dark.

I will not be able to bring back the light.

It's up to you.

Till I get my harp back, I'm going to say the darkness will remain all day.

Amazing.

It's your turn to write your question one and Apollo's answer.

Pause here, and then press play when you're ready to continue.

Now for question two.

This question is all about the emotion.

It's about how Apollo is feeling.

It's really important that in an interview, we think about the emotion because that's what really connects the viewers or the listeners of the story to the case.

Otherwise, if you're just talking about the five Ws and just describing what happened, it can get a little bit boring.

It's when we hear about the people involved and how it's impacted them, that we really sympathise and connect with the story.

The report is going to ask why the harp or the missing item is so important to Apollo, and how he's feeling now that it is missing.

And it Apollo is going to try and put into words, all of those different emotions and connect with the people listening to the story.

I'm going to model it, and then it will be your turn.

Now it is time for us to write to our second question.

And have to remember to put who it is speaking followed by the colon.

So the reporter is going to ask their second question now.

Why is this harp so important yo you? How do you feel, knowing, I'm going to say that someone else has it? Remember, If you're doing a different items, you can change it there.

And I'm going to go on and say, new line, so Apollo is now speaking.

Apollo colon, an let's think about how he's going to explain this.

That harp brings joy and happiness to all here on Earth.

That happiness, double P that happiness is what keeps the sun shining.

And without it.

Oh, what's going to happen without the sun? Without it, what do you think? It will make everyone feel even worse, potentially.

Perhaps it will be that the plants will start to die and we'll have nothing to eat.

It's up to you what you would like to put here.

That happiness is what keeps the sun shining.

And without it, the plants will start to die.

And soon, what do we think? And soon, nothing will remain.

We will have nothing to eat.

And so we will die too.

Very dramatic for our middle.

Will start to die and soon we will have nothing to eat.

Now, for the question about how he's feeling.

I feel like I am missing part of myself and therefore I am.

What could we put here? I am in complete broken, heartbroken, upset, down the jumps.

It's up to you.

I am, I'm going to say broken.

I just hope that whoever has it.

What do we think? Whoever has it is making good use of it, it's making them happy.

Yep, or perhaps I just hope whoever has it realises before it's too late, that they should return it.

Yeah, you can choose what you would like to write there.

I just hope that whoever has it realises soon how much I need it back.

Okay, fantastic.

Your turn to write your question two and Apollo's answer.

Pause here, and then press play when you're ready to continue.

Now it's time for our final question.

And this one is about opinion.

This is where we start to add some mystery and drama to our middle.

We're going to think about who are we accusing? Who's the suspect, and why? And that's going to add some real excitement for people watching at home.

So the reporter is going to ask Apollo, "Who do you think is responsible for this case?" And Apollo is going to answer and he's going to accuse Hades.

We know that he's going to accuse Hades of stealing for Persephone before.

And he's going to link the fact that the Zeus helped to get the Persephone back.

And he hopes the Zeus will help him to get his harp or his missing item back this time.

I'm going to model it, and then it will be your turn.

Now for our question three.

So our question three is all about the opinion, who do we think did it? So the reporter, going to do on next line, our colon after reporter, is now going to ask her this question.

And she's going to do a statement first.

Hades is the number one suspect in this case.

Do you think he is responsible? Do you think he did it? It's up to you.

Okay, now we're going to have Apollo's answers.

So we start a new line, Apollo.

Now, what do we think he's going to say? Does he think Hades did it? I'm just going to remind myself my boxing up plan.

He actually accuses Hades, doesn't he? Of stealing for Persephone, and that's why he thinks it's Hades's fault.

And then he talks about hoping Zeus will come and help him.

So Apollo might say, we all know that Hades is the one who stole Persephone.

He is definitely, he's definitely.

What do we think? The one responsible, the one who did it, capable of doing this, the type of person who would steal something.

He is definitely a thief.

You can choose.

He is definitely capable of stealing my harp.

Just remember to change that to your stolen item.

Okay, now we're going to talk about the Zeus stepping in, in the last case, and his hopes that Zeus would step in this time.

Zeus stepped in last time to.

What did he do? To talk to Hades, to reason with Hades, to help get Persephone back.

You can decide.

So, Zeus, I'm going to do Zeus stepped in last time to reason with Hades and managed to get a deal.

I, doing contraction here, I am, the A has gone missing, so the apostrophes in the place.

I am hoping that Zeus can.

What do we hope that Zeus can do this time? Perhaps Zeus can help me out, can intervene, can do something.

Yep, you can choose.

I'm hoping that the Zeus can help me out with my harp.

Let's, another contraction.

Let us becomes let's.

The U has gone, the apostrophe's gone there.

Let's hope this happens before.

Oh, before what? Before the plants die, we all die.

It's too late.

The darkness stays forever.

You can choose what you want to put here.

Let's hope this happens before time runs out and all the light is gone.

Okay, so that is our third section.

Okay, it's time for you to write your last section, your question three, and the answer.

Pause here, and then press play when you are ready.

You have done such a fantastic job.

It's now your turn to make sure that you're really happy with your middle and read through it and make sure that you've made any corrections you need to.

That's the third C of making sure it is correct is so important for our news report as we're going to be reading it out loud.

So the best way to do that is to practise reading it out loud.

I'd like you to pause and have a go at reading it.

And then if you notice any spelling, punctuation or grammar, or perhaps anything extra that you need to add, you then need to edit your work.

Press play when you've read this out loud and fixed anything you need to fix, and then we can continue.

You've done a fantastic job today at writing your amazing interview.

It gave us more detail, it created drama and mystery about our case, and it really grabbed the attention of our listeners and viewers watching or listening at home.

If you would like to share your amazing interview with me, ask a parent or carer to put it on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

You can tag OakNational and use the hashtag LearnwithOak.

In our next lesson, we're going to be writing the end.

And then we're really going to focus on how we perform our news reports in an authentic and realistic and engaging way.

I hope to see you in our next lesson.

I think it's going to be a lot for fun.