News Stories

1) What were the five stories your group chose to broadcast?

Greenford news story: As off next week year 10s are off to work experience as year 7-9 have enrichment week with 29 trips available .

National news story: The world could soon be "cast back into the dark ages of medicine" unless action is taken to tackle the growing threat of resistance to antibiotics.

London news story: in LONDON an AVERAGE HOUSE IN IS WORTH £400K due to population over crowed

Sports news story: Barcelona will begin negotiations with Liverpool on Wednesday over a deal for Reds striker Luis Suarez.

Funny news story: Crowds gathered around a woman as she gave birth to a girl outside a Primark store in Birmingham city centre

2) For each story above, explain WHY you chose that particular story and not something else. Why would it interest a Greenford audience?

Greenford news story: We chose this story because it’s the latest story which is happening next week

National news story: We chose this story because they need to be aware of the disease so it was one of the most important news of the week

London news story: We chose this story because people are willing to move to London e.g. for jobs and if they buy a house they have to buy I for 400k

Sports news story: We chose this story because Luis Suarez had bitten another player and now he’s banned for 4 months. Barcelona are making an agreement with Liverpool in order to support or to but him.

Funny news story: We chose this story because you don’t see someone giving birth outside a primark store it made us laugh since it was unusual.

3) What order did you broadcast the stories in? Why did you place the stories in that order because we are in GHS centre we have to broadcast our first.

Now think about your writing, editing, broadcasting and group work.

4) How did you make sure the script was the right length we shortened some bits which were not that important unnecessary information.

5) How did you make sure each story was clear and easy to understand? we made it easy to read and straight forward for the presenter –Mansoor

6) How did you make sure the broadcast was professional?

We added key information and good use of language in our script just like how a news presenter would do.

7) What was your specific role in the group? I was the editor and director

8) Rate your group’s ability to work collaboratively out of 5 (1=poor, 5=excellent)

5

9) How could your group have worked more effectively as a team? We could have took less time on presenting since our presenter had to retake again and again in order to make it meet the standards and requirements.

10) Finally, what would you have done differently if you were given the opportunity to do this again? I would be the presenter since I gave the opportunity to others.