Background Objectives CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS
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Appendix G
Lesson Plan
At the end of the program, the students are able to 1. Understand the basic principles of news gathering and news writing in
newspaper as printed journalism. 2. Understand the process of news gathering and news writing in writing news
stories in newspaper using English.
Topic General
Instructional Objectives
Specific Instructional
Objectives Activities Time Source
What is News
and News
Value At the end of
the course, the students
are able to:
1. Understand the
definition of news
and types of news
2. Recognize the news
values 3. Identify the
main idea in a news
story. At the end of the
course, the students are able
to: 1. Distinguish
news story from other
types of writing.
2. Mention the values within
a news story. 3. Categorize the
newsworthy topics
Pre-task Discuss the
differences between news
story and other types of text.
Task -
define the function of news
- find newsworthy
topics - identify the
news values - arrange the
topics based on their
newsworthiness. Post-task
Review and discuss the use
of past tense in news.
10’
15’ 15’
10’ 20’
20’ - Catatan-
catatan Jurnalisme
Dasar, 2005 - Newspaper,
1957 - The Process
of Writing News, 1992
- The Jakarta Post
- Cambridge Advanced
Learner’s Dictionary,
2003
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Topic General
Instruction Objectives
Specific Instructional
Objectives Activities Time Source
Head- lines
Leads At the end of
the course, the students
are able to:
1. Understand how to
make a good
headlines and leads
2. Know how to describe
and conclude
the situation
by writing a short
sentence At the end of the
course, the students are able
to: 1. Mention the
main parts in news story
2. Mention the functions of
headlines and leads.
3. Make good headlines and
leads. 4. Make a
concise sentence and
paragraphs.
Pre-task Answer the pre-
questions and discuss the
procedures in making
headlines and leads.
Task -
Make the headlines for
provided stories. - Make the leads
based on the provided
situations. Post-task
- review - discuss the
procedures in shortening the
sentences - giving home
assignments 10’
20’ 20’
15’ 15’
10’ - The language
of Newspaper, 2002
- News- gathering,
1986 - Jurnalistik
Praktis untuk Pemula, 2005.
- The Jakarta Post
- Cambridge Advanced
Learner’s Dictionary,
2003