Starter quiz

  • Order the sections of a journalistic report.
    • 1
      ⇔
      opening
    • 2
      ⇔
      recount section
    • 3
      ⇔
      quotes section
    • 4
      ⇔
      closing
  • The purpose of a journalistic report is...
    • to tell a story.
    • to record a person's thoughts and feelings.
    • to explore different viewpoints about a topic.
    • to inform the reader about a real-life event.  ✓
  • 'Text cohesion' refers to...
    • a sentence including a main clause and a subordinate clause.
    • a text's flow and ability to achieve its purpose.  ✓
    • language commonly found in journalistic reports.
  • Match the cohesive devices to their definitions.
    • fronted adverbial
      ⇔
      a sentence starter followed by a comma ✓
    • subject-specific language
      ⇔
      vocabulary associated with a particular subject ✓
    • journalistic language
      ⇔
      words and phrases used by journalists in their reports ✓
    • parenthesis
      ⇔
      additional information that can be removed from a sentence ✓
  • Select the examples of journalistic language.
    • suddenly
    • according to reports  ✓
    • it is believed that  ✓
    • fascinatingly
    • allegedly  ✓
  • Match the complex sentence types to their definitions.
    • adverbial complex sentence
      ⇔
      sentence with a main clause & adverbial subordinate clause ✓
    • relative complex sentence
      ⇔
      sentence with a main clause & relative subordinate clause ✓
    • non-finite complex sentence
      ⇔
      sentence with a main clause & non-finite subordinate clause ✓
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