MONDAY and TUESDAY Watch the Video Below and Listen to the Commentary
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ENGLISH WRITING TASKS - Monday 4th May – Friday 8th May This week I am setting you writing tasks based on a sports theme. This is going to require some non-fiction style writing based on reporting facts as well as using your imaginations to relive the experience yourselves! MONDAY and TUESDAY Watch the video below and listen to the commentary. Note down correct spelling of names- focus on the main 2 Bolt and Blake. https://www.literacyshed.com/the-sports-shed.html or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWZQAVtkMBo Today’s task Watch the video again, this time with no sound. Write your own commentary to go with the race. Include : An introduction to some of the competitors and commentary on their ability or pre- race warm up styles and how they interact with the crowds. An exciting description of the actual race in the style of a sports commentary. A summing up at the end- describe the actions of the runners towards one another. Make sure spelling and punctuation is accurate in your commentary. Try it out on someone at home when finished. Turn the volume off and read your commentary alongside the race video- note down any feedback. Two stars and a wish- then respond to the wish by improving your commentary if needed. WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY Today you are a journalist and will be writing a news report about the 200 metres men’s final based on the video. I have included a checklist below for you to start planning your article. I am also including an example of a similar report for you to model your own journalistic writing on. Olympics 2012: Women's 100m gold won by Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce • Jamaican Fraser-Pryce beats world champion Carmelita Jeter • Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogo qualifies for 400m final Robert Booth at the Olympic Stadium Shares 0 Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce of Jamaica crosses the line to win the women's 100m at London 2012. Photograph: Paul Gilham/Getty Images Jamaica's Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce surged to the women's 100m gold medal in 10.75sec to retain her Olympic title. The 25-year old beat Carmelita Jeter, the 32-year old world champion, from the USA who took silver in a time that was just 0.03 slower than the Jamaican. Veronica Campbell-Brown, Fraser-Pryce's compatriot, took bronze. "I went out there and I couldn't think about it before," said the Kingston-based Fraser-Pryce. "I knew it just had to feel right." Jeter described it as "a power-filled final". "I'm just glad I got the finish line," she said. "I hope I represented the USA. It was my first Olympics. I ran a season best and I got a silver." In the semi-finals the two countries traded blows in the centre lanes. Jeter scored for the USA, winning a hard-run first semi-final against Campbell- Brown in a time of 10.83. Eight minutes later Fraser-Pryce equalled the score, beating Allyson Felix into second place in a time of 10.85, easing over the line with a fluent finish. In other races, the reigning 400m Olympic champion Christine Ohuruogu, who was raised in Newham less than a mile from the stadium, delivered a powerful 400m semi-final, coming second in her race to qualify in 50.22. It was her quickest time of 2012 but six of the women she will face in the final ran faster. In the 400m hurdles semi-finals Dai Greene, the Llanelli-born world, European and Commonwealth champion, squeaked into Monday night's final as the seventh-fastest qualifier after finishing fourth behind the 2004 Olympic champion, Félix Sánchez of the Dominican Republic, who won the heat in 47.76, the fastest time run this year. Green said he was "devastated" by his performance. "I feel like I've let everybody down," he said. "I should be able to do better than that. I know I'm better than that. I shouldn't be making the final that way." The medal favourite Javier Culson, 28, from Puerto Rico qualified second. Great Britain's male 400m runners, meanwhile, swept into Sunday night's semi-finals. Nigel Levine, the Trinidad-born runner coached by Linford Christie, went through in 45.58 and his stablemate Conrad Williams qualified from a heat that was missing the reigning Olympic champion, LaShawn Merritt, who withdrew with a hamstring injuryin 46.12. The Croydon-born Martyn Rooney, sixth in Beijing, was the fastest of the British qualifiers with a 45.36 second place but later said he felt "rusty". Team GB's Holly Bleasdale, 20, Blackburn's emerging pole vault star, qualified for Monday night's final in fourth place, clearing 4.55 at the second attempt. "I felt really good but I was very nervous," she said. "I never felt something like that in my entire life, but the crowd lifted me." Her British rival Kate Dennison, 28, was knocked out after her final attempt to clear 4.40m failed when her pole sprang her back on to the runway. Eilish McColgan, daughter of the former 10,000m world champion Liz, also fell short in the heats of the 3,000m steeplechase. She competed after being hit by a stolen car while on a training run at Team GB's training camp in Portugal. Checklist- Include: Follow the checklist above to ensure you include everything required! Accurate spelling, especially of names (and remember capitals for proper nouns!) Quotes that are correctly punctuated using inverted commas You could type your report up and create a version including a photo to show off your ICT skills or you can copy the template below and draw an image copied from the video FRIDAY Today’s task is to write an internal monologue for one of the athletes. What is an internal monologue I hear you ask? Think back to the unit on The Lost Thing (remember the cat food advert?). You pretended to be the Lost Thing or the boy, writing a narrative of the actions as they happened in the present tense, including your thoughts and emotions. Below is another example you may be familiar with? Here is another example to help you from Cartoon Network: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phvEBMxfWdo In your monologue include: Write in first person – you are Bolt or Blake Write in the present tense- describe what is happening – keep checking tense Begin with how you are feeling before the race as you line up on the track Describe your emotions throughout –are you confident, anxious, disappointed, elated, scared, nervous, poised, assertive or unsure? You will not need inverted commas (unless someone is speaking to or shouting at you e.g. the crowds) but remember to use accurate punctuation and add expressive punctuation ( ! … ) Think about your voice - remember you are an athlete talking to yourself so how would your language change ? Use techniques such as bold writing to add emphasis You can use informal language for this task. Finally- when you have completed your monologue, play the video with the sound off and read your monologue alongside. CHECK – have you managed to include a sense of your personality ? I really hope that you are enjoying some of the writing tasks? Please let me know via your class teachers if there is a topic or subject you would particularly like to write about in future weeks and I will try to plan something for you. Take care Mrs Hunter x .