Lesson video

Hello everyone, my name is Miss Weerasekera, and welcome to lesson 10 in our unit about news reports.

It is our final lesson in this unit and it's going to be a really good one.

Today, we are going to focus on writing the conclusion to a news report, which is that final piece to camera that the news reporter is going to do, summarising what's happened, giving a call to action and telling us a little bit about what might happen next.

We're then going to spend the rest of today's lesson really using our voices and our acting skills and our creativity to act out our news reports and perform it just like I did for you at the beginning of this unit.

So we've got lots of fun things to do today, but we've got a lot to get through.

So we should probably get started.

In today's lesson, you're going to need a pen and a piece of paper to write our amazing conclusion to our news reports that really satisfies our listeners and readers.

You're also going to need your brain to do the writing but also because we're going to be performing our news reports at the end of the lesson, and that's going to be really exciting but we're going to need our creativity to help us.

If you do not have a pen or pencil or a piece of paper, pause the video now, go and get it, and then press play when you're ready to get started.

In today's lesson, we're going to go through a spelling activity to start off.

This spelling activity is going to recap one of the spelling rules from an earlier unit just to make sure that we can remember what it is and which words use that spelling rule.

We're then going to recap a boxing up plan to look at what we need to include in our conclusion to our news report before we go ahead and write it.

I'm going to model it to you first and show you lots of sentence stem, then you're going to have a go at doing it by yourself.

Finally, we're going to do our performance of our news report.

Much like the one I showed you at the beginning of the unit, we're going to practise doing our pieces to camera, we're going to practise being in the interview as the news reporter and Apollo, and think about how we can use our facial expressions and body language and voice to make it really engaging and realistic.

Lots to do today, and it's going to be really fun.

So the spelling we're going to recap today is this one.

It is the /er/ sound spelled O-R after the letter W.

And here are some of the examples we've got: Work, worm, world, word, and worth.

You can see, they all start with W then they all have O-R.

And in these instances, that O-R has what sound? That's right, the /er/ sound.

Let's spell an activity to help us remember some of these words.

So I am going to be reading you some clues and you have to guess which O-R spelt word I am talking about.

The first one says, you have to do this in your lessons at school.

And in fact, today in this lesson, you would have to do this.

What do you think it is? Let's have a look.

Work, well done.

W-O-R-K the O-R makes the /er/ sound.

Next clue.

It is made up of seven continents and five oceans, what could it be? Have a guess let's have a look.

World.

Well done if you've got that.

Well this is a bit of a tricky one, a bit of a strange one.

It has no eyes or backbone, What could that be? Have you guessed? Worm, well done if you got that.

Oh, you use plenty of these to write a story, what could that be? There are quite a few things that you need to write a story.

Have you thought of what it could be? Remember, it's going to start with W-O-R, isn't it? Lots of words, yes, well done.

If I want to say the value of an item, I would say that toy is five pounds.

Remember it's going to be w-O-R, wor, but it's going to end in something else.

Could it be that toy as worth five pounds? Worth, well done, it's got a similar meaning to value.

We're now guys 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 are going to write it.

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

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

It's really important as a journalist that you 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.

For that we're going to think about the three Ss.

The first of the three Ss 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 waffle on because we want to make sure that it is clear and easy for people to understand.

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

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 and clear.

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, if the grammar and punctuation is incorrect, it can make it difficult to read that 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, what 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 that 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.

Just a final reminder that we're writing this in a play script style, because it's being read out loud.

So that means that whenever a character is talking, we're going to have their name, and then a colon, and then what they say, and every time a different character speaks, we're going to be starting a different line.

Now that was really important in our middle, in our interview, but in our final conclusion, it's just going to be the news reporter doing their piece to camera.

So we're only going to have to write report at once, we're not going to have to keep changing like in the last lesson.

So it should be nice and simple for us today to write in this style.

Right, we're going to do it now.

There's going to be a few different sections that we're going to go through and do just so you can see the sentence stems and the different ways in which we're going to do it.

Each time, I will modulate first and then you can have a go, and then we're going to have a little bit of time to have a look and correct, and then we'll be focusing on our performance.

Okay, so the first part of our conclusion is to recap the story, and we want to do this concisely and clearly using our five Ws.

Okay, so I've got a few sentence stems here that might help us up out.

A worrying case that looks like it could, okay? So we want to summarise the mood and the expectation around this, and then this one, we think it could get a lot worse, the situation could get much worse than it currently is.

And then it says these facts are clear.

So after that, we go to summarise using those five Ws exactly what we think and know has happened in the case so far.

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

Before we get started, let's write our unit number, which is unit 15, I'm on lesson 10.

And our learning objective which is to write an ending that satisfies, okay? Now, we need to write in our play script style.

And that means we need to put here who is about to speak and use the colon.

Now for this bit, it's our final conclusion and it's our piece to camera.

So we're not going to have to keep going backwards and forwards like we did in the interview, we'll just have to do this once and then that'll be it.

I mean right what she or he is going to say.

So, we start off by kind of summarising the case.

So I won't say a worrying case.

You might say a strange case, a disturbing case, an unsettling case, it's up to you.

I'll say that looks like, well, could we put looks like it could get a lot worse, looks like it could have a sad ending, it looks like things could really get worse, looks like things could go downhill, okay? So in one case, it looks like I'm going to say it could get a lot worse if, if what? if Hades does not return the harp? If Zeus doesn't get involved, if nothing changes.

Yeah, so if I may say, if nothing changes, you decide what you would like to put there.

If nothing changes.

Now we are go to summarise the case using the five Ws.

So we're going to start with the sentence stem.

These facts are clear.

Now we want to do who, what, where, when, why.

So for my who, going to be Apollo last saw his and it's going to be for me, harp, you might have chosen different item that got stolen, so make sure you pop that there.

When it was playing it's beautiful music here on earth.

So I've done who, what, where, a little bit of when but I'm going to be a bit more direct and clear, I am going to say earlier today, okay? You can always check from your introduction, did you put in the morning? Did you put in the afternoon? You could say this afternoon, this morning, at lunchtime, it's up to you what you want to put there for the time.

We're going to add one more sentence to summarise our five Ws, and this one's going to be about Hades being the number one suspect and why, that's kind of our why.

Why did we think he did it? And why do we think it's him? So I'm going to say Hades has.

Okay, now Hades has stolen things before, I'm going to use the phrase called has a previous track record.

And a track record means that you're basically known for doing something again and again before.

Yeah, so record of something.

So I'm going to say Hades has a previous track record.

Oh, sorry, I meant to write record for stealing, okay? Now you might say for getting in trouble.

Hades has previously been in trouble with the police, Hades previously stole Persephone.

So whatever reason you want to give.

And therefore, remains the number one suspect in this case, okay? So that our first part there.

Okay, your turn to recap the story and use the five Ws.

Pause here and then press play when you are finished.

Great! Now next part, we want to summarise for the readers at home, what might happen next? So we've given them the details that we already know, we want to give them an idea of what we expect to happen.

Okay, so in these sentence stem, they've got there are hopes that, what are people hoping? That time is running out to, and then we're going to kind of go from the positive of the hopes and kind of negative about what actually people think might happen.

If nothing changes, if Zeus doesn't come, if Hades doesn't return the harp, what's the worst case scenario.

So kind of doing best case scenario with the hopes, worst case scenario with what might happen.

And then a summary of what people there or people who are part of the situation are feeling, that's often what a news reporter go do, they'll summarise the mood of the scene and how people involved a feeling.

Okay, so as the sun sets in the sky or as darkness falls, people here are starting to feel, what are they feeling about it? Okay, I'm good to model it and then it will be your turn.

Okay, so for the next bit, we're going to do what might happen next.

So we're going to give the positives and the hopes that people have and then we're going to give the negative side of what might happen as well.

So we're going to say there are hopes that, what do people hope will happen? Hopes that Zeus will intervene, that Hades will see sense and give the harp back.

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

There are hopes that I'm going to say Zeus can intervene, which is basically about getting involved and helping out.

Now hopes that Zeus can intervene and make a deal with Hades to share the, I'm going to do harp, but you're going to do yours.

Harp.

Share the harp.

Now we're going to be a bit more negative.

Time is running out to what? To bring back the light, to bring the sun back out, to end the darkness, to keep the plants living.

It's up to you.

I'm going to say time is running out to end this darkness and bring back the sun.

And finally, we're going to think about how are people there or people involved in the case feeling.

We normally describe this, we say, as something happens, people are feeling.

So I'm going to say as it becomes pitch black around me, okay? Now, there are different things you might say here.

As the plants begin to weep to welt, as this silence sets in because the music is gone in my case, but you might say something different.

As the darkness falls, as the light disappears, whatever you would like to write.

As it becomes pitch black around me, people here are starting to worry about, starting to wonder if the sun will ever return, starting to panic about how they will survive or get that food if the plants die, it's up to you.

I'm going to say people here are starting to panic about how we will all survive, okay? Right, off you go, you do your summary of what might happen next.

Press pause and then press play when you're ready to continue.

Okay, so this is our call to action.

So this is where we are really directly talking to the people, watching the new report to tell them what they can do to help in the case, okay? So in this, we're going to be asking them probably to call the police if they have any information about it, or perhaps you could choose to say call Zeus, he's almost like the police of the gods, isn't he? So I've put here a few options.

If you know or if you have seen, or if you have heard anything about the harp or whatever you're missing item is or Hades, then please contact Zeus or please contact the police immediately.

It's going to be something along those lines.

So just one short clear call to action for the readers that we're going to include.

I'm going to show you mine now, then it will be your turn to write yours.

Now we are going to do our call to action we want people to do at home.

So we're going to start off with, if you, now you could choose know or have seen or have heard, whether you would like to do.

If you, I would just you say know anything about, now here you can say about Hades' whereabouts, about where the harp is, about what's happened, it's up to you.

About, I'll say the whereabout, basically where is it.

Of Hades, I'm going to include Hades or the, for me, I'm putting harp, you would put your missing item there.

Then please call, now here we can put the Zeus or the police is up to you.

I'm going to say, please call, I would say the police to make it seem like real news report.

Call the police, I would say quickly, immediately, soon as you can, immediately.

Okay, your call to action now.

Off you go, press pause and then press play when you're done, and we'll do the final part of our conclusion.

Okay, so just like we had right at the beginning where the reporting introduce themselves, at the end, they kind of sign off their news report so that they can hand it back over to the people in the studio, quite often is the case.

So they might say who they are again, they're going to say where they are, and they're going to say what new station that they're working for, and then they'll say something like back to the studio or back to you in the studio, okay? So very much the same as what we wrote in the introduction, but just that recap at the end to summarise and bring the news report to a close, okay? I'm going to model it quickly, and then it be your term.

Now final section is that little reporter recap, just like we did at the beginning of the introduction where they're going to summarise who they are, where they are, what news company they're reporting for and send it back to the studio.

So I'm going to say again, my name is Miss Weerasekera, you can put your name there, reporting from, I'm going to keep my facts the same, so I said Earth before, I'm going to say Earth again.

For Oak Academy News.

Let me just say something like back to the studio.

Right, last part, write it for me.

Pause here, press play when you are finished.

Okay, so now's your chance if you haven't already to make sure that you're really happy with that conclusion, and read it all as one and make sure that it really makes sense.

So you're looking for the content, have you included everything you need to include? Are there any words that you've missed out? But you also need to check your spelling, punctuation and grammar.

Read out loud, does it make sense? If it doesn't, make any changes that you need to make.

Pause here, do that, and then press play when you're really happy with it.

Now that we have finished writing, it's time for the really fun bit, the performance, okay? So now it's your turn to take your news report and turn it into a real news report by performing it.

A news report isn't in this case, as it is for TV, something that's written down, it's something that people watch and listen to.

So you're going to take your writing and bring it to life.

Now, remember your two sections, your introduction and your conclusion are going to be your pieces to camera.

So you're really going to need something to be on microphone, okay? You need to get yourself in your news report mood.

So you're probably quite serious, probably quite calm, okay? And you're going to be looking straight at your audience.

So you can choose if your audience is someone that you know, it can be something that you lived with, it can be a teddy, you can do in the mirror.

You can record yourself, so recording to the camera.

Completely up to you.

But you want to know where your audience sits so that you can look at them.

So your introduction and your conclusion, you're going to have your camera and you're going to be talking to the people at home watching you, okay? So you hold your microphone, look straight forward, and imagine you're speaking to your viewers and speak really clearly, not too fast and not too slow.

That's probably some advice I could take for myself.

You're then going to have your middle, and in your middle, you're going to be both Apollo and the news reporter.

So for this, I would like you to change position, just like I did when I did mine, okay? So you can really clearly see your two characters.

And remember earlier in the unit where we talked about changing our voice and our facial expression and our body language to show the different characters.

We know the news reporter is probably going to be quite calm, whereas we know Apollo is probably going to be quite emotional.

He might be upset, he might be angry because he's lost his item or his harp, okay? So make sure you show the difference between them by thinking about how you can really represent that emotion in their voice and body language.

So it's your turn to have a go now, you can press pause, do an amazing performance and then press play when you're done, all right? In fact, maybe you should even video it because then you can watch it back and maybe ask someone for some feedback on how you could even make it better and improve.

Pause here, have a go, and enjoy it and then press play when you're finished.

Oh my goodness, that was a fantastic performance.

It was just like watching a real news report.

Maybe you should be a journalist when you grow up.

Really, really impressed guys.

Well, an amazing way to finish off our piece of writing by bringing it to life and seeing it as it really would be as if it was on the news.

I would love to see both your writing, but also your performances of your news report.

So if you would like to share them, please ask a parent to put it on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

You can tag Oak National and use the #learnwithOak.

You have done a brilliant job in this unit.

And actually I absolutely loved this unit, in fact really, really fun thinking about how we can take a fictional story and put it in a real life situation.

I hope to see you in our next unit where we would doing a different story.