News and reality (TU22)

Background
This unit explores the link between news and reality. It provides materials for teachers and students to reflect on how language succeeds or fails to build credibility and how newswriters attempt to frame reality for readers. Students might focus narrowly on aspects of language or take a more ‘multimodal’ approach where they reflect on the language as well as features such as layout, font choices, imagery, and reputation of news outlets.

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