SELF-ASSESSMENT Now assess your work. Copy and fi ll in this assessment grid. Tick (✔) how you rate your work.
EXCELLENT
Formal greeting to listeners
Answers the 5 Ws Formal language Varied vocabulary
Keeps listeners engaged and interested
VERY GOOD
GOOD
I COULD IMPROVE
My Oral Communication Task
Speak your news report as if you were a TV newsreader. Sit at a table as if you were in a television studio looking straight at a camera. Revise the performance tips given on page 144.
I MUST
❍ Greet listeners with the words ‘Good morning/afternoon/evening from the newsroom’
❍ Pay attention to my posture, sitting up straight and looking at the camera with confi dence
❍ Speak each word clearly and pause at full stops and commas
❍ Watch some news broadcasters and try to imitate the best one I fi nd
I COULD
❍ Have learned the broadcast so well that I hardly need to look at the page at all
War 161 I SHOULD
❍ Pay attention to my tone of voice and vary my reading pace – my aim is to make the news item interesting for listeners
❍ Learn as much of my broadcast as I can so I can speak it without looking down at my text too often