Starter quiz
- What are the linguistic features of a journalistic report?
- formal journalistic language ✓
- storytelling language
- simple sentences
- subject-specific vocabulary ✓
- complex sentences ✓
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- Match the people and place from 'Little Red Riding Hood' to their connection to the crime.
- Mr Wolf⇔the person who committed the crime ✓
- Mrs Puckett and Red⇔the people who suffered the crime ✓
- property on Cherry Pot Lane⇔where the crime took place ✓
- neighbours, local residents⇔people who saw or heard information linked to the crime ✓
- Which type of fronted adverbials are most commonly used when reporting on a crime?
- viewpoint fronted adverbials
- fronted adverbials of time ✓
- fronted adverbial of cause
- fronted adverbial of place
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- What kind of subject-specific vocabulary will you need to use in a journalistic report about a crime?
- vocabulary linked to science
- vocabulary linked to crime ✓
- vocabulary linked to food
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- Which crimes did the Wolf commit?
- burglary
- breaking and entering ✓
- littering
- assault ✓
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- Which of the following are examples of formal journalistic writing?
- They told us...
- Witnesses have reported... ✓
- We think that...
- It is believed that... ✓
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Exit quiz
- Which subject-specific vocabulary do you need to use when writing a journalistic report about 'Little Red Riding Hood'?
- vocabulary specific to cooking
- vocabulary specific to education
- vocabulary specific to crime ✓
- vocabulary specific to the environment
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- Match the vocabulary to the correct definition.
- suspect⇔a person thought to be guilty of a crime or offence ✓
- victim⇔a person harmed or injured as a result of a crime/accident ✓
- residence⇔a person's home ✓
- witness⇔a person who sees an event/crime take place ✓
- Which of the following are synonyms for suspect?
- assailant ✓
- offender ✓
- injured party
- perpetrator ✓
- onlooker
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- Which of the following are synonyms for victim?
- defendent
- target ✓
- innocent citizen ✓
- sufferer ✓
- observer
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- Which of the following are synonyms for residence?
- property ✓
- criminal
- bystander
- scene of the crime ✓
- residential property ✓
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- Which of the following are synonyms for witness?
- target
- defendant
- bystander ✓
- passer-by ✓
- observer ✓
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Key learning points
- Journalistic reports are written using formal and factual language to create a serious and objective tone.
- The use of subject-specific vocabulary is crucial in journalistic reports and varies depending on the news event.
- Appropriate synonyms are used in journalistic reports to create a formal tone and to avoid repetition.
- Formal language involves the use of sophisticated vocabulary without the use of contractions.
Common misconception
Children may struggle to create a formal tone without knowledge or exposure to formal vocabulary.
Offer opportunities for children to self-correct with the use of a thesaurus for more formal synonyms.
Keywords
Formal language - language used in certain non-fiction texts involving sophisticated and objective vocabulary without the use of contractions
Subject-specific vocabulary - vocabulary used when writing about a particular subject
Objective - not influenced by personal feelings or opinions when representing facts
Synonyms - a word that has the same or similar meaning to another word
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