Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Oral blog entry 5 - Domestic News Headlines, week 8

A. How many front page stroies?

NZ Herald
1. New drug trial - hope for women with history of miscarriges.
2. Climate change expected to cause environmental crash- proposal to combat global warming.

Dominion Post
1. Transmission Gully projection cost - extra 2 million dollars
2. Government to question -man in New Plymouth on Saturday

Press
1. The government is looking at a way to tackle truancy numbers.

Otago Daily Times
1. Smacking bill

B. Transcribe your chosen story(Press)

The government is looking at a way to tackle Truancy numbers. The story is, last year, an average of 30,000 children a day skipped classes.

C. Identify Three Pronunciation Features

1. Consonant to vowel linking - an average
2. Sounds twinning (gemination) - skipped the
3. Weak form(schwa) - at a way to

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