Explanation: You must pick a current news story from a radio station or other on-line aural media each week and create open-ended questions (i.e. not yes/no questions) that can be answered by listening to the story. You should include a working link to the audio file in your blog. You must also be prepared to speak about your story in class each week and listen to a classmate’s story.
Example from NPR:
Opponents Threaten Court Battle On Health Mandate
by DAVID WELNA
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122693523
Question(s) that can be answered by listening to the audio file:
What did Iowa Republican Chuck Grassley think last June about requiring people to get health insurance?
there are an individual mandate that people should buy healt insurnce
What does he think now?
people are fre can do whatever they want , they are free
What is the problem of requiring people to buy health insurance?
they don’t want any one to make them to buy health insurence and thay called that tax on living (indivdial mandate) especially for some thing never had done before
New Vocabulary:
Mandate (n.) – an authoritative order or command
Grounds (n.) – (Constitutional grounds) -the foundation or basis on which a belief or action rests; reason or cause: grounds for dismissal.
Consensus (n.) - majority of opinion
Definitions from http://dictionary.reference.com/