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'''News Summary''' is a simple activity with a home-study component to encourage students to increase their out-of-class exposure to Chinese-language media. It also has the benefit of increasing student awareness of diverse global perspectives in Chinese.

*This activity can be divided into two components, depending on the particular competencies that you would like to focus on or that students need to work on:
**[[News_Summary#Listening Practice - 听力练习|听力练习]] (listening practice)
**[[News_Summary#Reading Practice - 阅读练习|阅读练习]] (reading practice)

*Regardless of which competency is being practiced, the process is roughly the same.

==Outline==
*Assign students the task of selecting from a list of international podcasts or news feeds (see below for list of links) '''at least 3''' that they will follow.
*Encourage students to keep a log/journal of their listening or reading, and to summarize '''at least 1''' story (from a podcast) or article (from a news feed) per day.
*After one week, have the students choose '''3 or more''' of their favourite stories and report back to the class sharing their prepared summaries.
*This can be a way of working on/developing presentational skills.

==Listening Practice - 听力练习==
*Provide students with the [[Chinese Podcasts#National Broadcasters|list of international broadcast organization podcasts in Chinese]] (available [[Chinese Podcasts#National Broadcasters|here]]).
*Ask students to choose '''at least 3''' podcasts that interest them from the list, and follow them regularly.
*Students should keep a log of which podcast episodes they have listened to, and try to summarize the important or interesting parts of at least one episode per day ''in their own words''.
*After one week, students should choose their favourite 3 episodes and present a summary of the podcast and why it was important/why they enjoyed it to the rest of the class.
*Allow time for Q&A after each presentation.
*Example:
**Follow the [http://www.rfi.fr RFI], [http://www.nhk.or.jp NHK] and [http://www.sbs.com.au SBS] podcasts for a week and describe the top 3 stories for that week in France, Japan and Australia.
**Follow-up questions: Were there any differences in coverage or focus among these three broadcasters? What is something you learned about each of these three countries that you did not know before?

==Reading Practice - 阅读练习==
*Provide students with the [[Chinese RSS Feeds#News|list of international news feeds in Chinese]] (available [[Chinese RSS Feeds#News|here]]).
*Ask students to choose '''at least 3''' podcasts that interest them from the list, and follow them regularly.
*Students should keep a log of which podcast episodes they have listened to, and try to summarize the important or interesting parts of at least one episode per day ''in their own words''.
*After one week, students should choose their favourite 3 episodes and present a summary of the podcast and why it was important/why they enjoyed it to the rest of the class.
*Allow time for Q&A after each presentation.
*Example:
**Follow the [http://radiovr.com.cn/ Voice of Russia], [http://world.kbs.co.kr/chinese/ KBS] and [http://helanonline.cn/ Hélán Zàixiàn] news feeds for a week and describe the top 3 stories for that week in Russia, Korea and the Netherlands.
**Follow-up questions: What are examples of stories you read during the week that you would not have seen in your own country's news media? What are some similarities?

[[Category:Tasks for Advanced Learners]]
[[Category:Tasks for Adults]]
[[Category:Tasks for Listening Skills]]
[[Category:Tasks for Reading Comprehension]]
[[Category:Tasks for Presentational Skills]]

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