Oxford Primary Skills Unit Teaching Notes Oxford University Press 1 Lesson objectives

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the children to change each sentence into news report 
language.
Finally, ask the children to rewrite the sentences as news 
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report sentences, using the place names as adjectives. 
(Note that the place name in sentence 4 needs to be 
changed to make it into an adjective.)
Check the answers as a class.
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Key
1 
London teenager Sita Patel raised £250.
2 
Manchester Hospital doctor Ivan Zukov saved her life.
3 
Belfast ambulance driver Mary Connolly was first to arrive.
4 
Canadian tourists Mr and Mrs Parsons saw the accident. 
9 Write a news report. Use the information below.
Explain that the children are going to write a short news 
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report, using the information in the box.
Read the information in the box. Then ask the children to 
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help you embellish the story by adding more information. 
Encourage them to be imaginative! You might like to ask 
a confident volunteer to come to the front of the class 
and pretend to be Jack. The rest of the class asks ‘Jack’ 
questions, e.g. 
Why did you decide to sell the paintings? How 
did you sell them? Who bought them?
Explain that in a news report, the first one or two 
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sentences always gives us the most important 
information, then the rest of the report gives the details.
Help the children to write the first paragraph of the report 
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on the board. Decide where Jack is from, and start the 
report with a sentence like the ones in Exercise 8.
When you think the children are ready, ask them to write 
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their reports.
Key
Example text:
Oxford teenager Jack Walters has raised over £400 to help flood 
victims in Thailand. He did this by selling his paintings. 
Jack loves painting, and he has painted lots of pictures. One 
day a teacher saw his paintings and said, “Jack, you’re an artist. 
These paintings are excellent. You should sell them!” 
Jack wanted to help flood victims in Thailand. His teacher 
helped him to sell the paintings. He displayed them at the 
school and other children’s parents bought them. 
Jack said, “I was going to sell my paintings for £1 each, but 
people wanted to pay more. One man paid £100 for a painting.”