CURRENT EVENTS PRESENTATIONS:
Because we know that we cannot learn a language without learning something of the culture (and vice versa!) we are going to spend some time doing presentations about events that are affecting the Spanish-speaking world.
Your presentation will be a brief summary of a current story that appears in at least one of the websites listed below.
You will be required to:
a) Tell us where the event takes place on a map
b) Tell us what the capital city of the affected country is
c) Give us a summary of the event, having enough background knowledge of the event to answer some questions
d) Be able to tell us why this particular event is important and how it is related to our lives here in Canada
e) Hand in a brief bibliography card outlining 1) your country, 2) a one sentence description of your event, and (3) your sources.
f) You might want to bring in visuals, although this is not mandatory.
Your presentation will be marked /25. You will be marked for your knowledge of the event, your comfort level in the presenting of the story, your ability to place it on a map, and your bibliography card.
If you are having troubles choosing a news item, please come and see Ms Soderlund.
List of online sources: You must use at least one of the sources from the following list:
This is a news agency that was created to specifically focus on the countries of South America over against other news agencies that focus principally on the countries of the north.
Al Jazeera English is the world's first English-language news channel headquartered in the Middle East. Its aim is to provide a global perspective to a potential world audience of over one billion English speakers who don't have an Anglo-American worldview.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/americas/roundup
The Guardian is a British national daily newspaper whose website is one of the highest-traffic English-language news websites. It has the second largest online readership of any English-language newspaper in the world, after the New York Times.
Narco News is an online newspaper dedicated to covering the "War on Drugs” and social movements throughout the Americas. Its articles are available in English and Spanish.
http://www.lapress.org/index.asp
This paper wants to produce an analysis about Latin America and the Caribbean with an emphasis on the problems and situations that affect the human rights of vulnerable and marginalized sectors of the population.
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/
This is a website that has news in English specifically from Spain.