News of today

Exercises

1. News of today

Find some of today's news in newspapers or on the internet.

Visit one of the following news portals:

BBC Asia Pacific
BBC South Asia

Asia Daily

 You may want to pick another news media from the list at "News Sites"

• Look at the front page of a newspaper from your country today
• Make a quick description of today's top stories - are the any differences between the different newspapers?
• Describe the web site from which you have chosen your Asia top news
• Also try to find a piece of top news from a particular country in Asia. You can find links at http://www.google.com or http://www.yahoo.com by inserting the name of the country and 'news' in the search string (i.e. Pakistan news)

2. Coverage of Asia in the daily paper

• Go through a national newspaper from your country, page by page. In your class, you may want to divide yourselves into groups and every group should concentrate on a different newspaper
• Find all articles about one or more countries in Asia - cut them out
• Write briefly in your own words which subjects the articles deal with and which country or countries in Asia the articles are about
• Make a collage with the articles

3. Cartoons in Asia

Visit one of these homepages about Asian cartoons:
http://www.rawa.org/cartoons.htm
http://www.afghan-web.com/politics/cartoons.html
http://sgurera.tripod.com/illjapan.htm.

• Describe in your own words what the word "manga" means
• Pick a drawing and write an appropriate caption of at least three lines to go with the drawing
• Explain why you have picked exactly that drawing

4. Television

Take a look at a couple of popular Asian youth TV stations:

MTV Asia
Young Asia Television

• What kind of TV programmes is most popular in your country?
• Make a list of five TV programmes that you like. Explain why
• Discuss good and bad aspects of television
• Find examples of TV programmes that informs and / or try to influence the opinions of their viewers