News stories - a summary Monday, March 2, 2009

I will comment on your news stories individually, but here is a summary:

You have all picked interesting topics for your news stories. They work well in this context.

It is obvious that some of you have paid attention to the news story we wrote together and that you have used the ideas and the special news language in your own news stories. This is something you should all do! Try to see the difference between a newspaper article and "story-telling" in general.

A news story is always told in the past. This means you have to be sure of the verbs in the past tense, verbs like: went (gick), said (sa), came (kom), drove (körde) etc.

A grammatical construction often used in news stories is the passive. For example: han hittades = he was found. This is a very effective way of re-telling what happened "newspaper style".


Tomorrow in class we will take another look at verbs and how to use them more effectively in writing. We will also keep talking about how to argue a point in English.