Hearwaves
Teacher Phil Coogan
| YEAR
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LEVEL
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DURATION
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| 10
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4-6
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3 weeks
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| Achievement Objective Being Assessed
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Learning Outcomes
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| Listening to Texts
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Analyse the content, language, style, advertising and music of a radio station to ascertain the audience it is targeting.
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| Processes
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| Exploring Language
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Identify and explain how language choices used in several radio stations relate to the target audiences of those stations.
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| Supporting Achievement Objective
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Learning Outcomes
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| Interpersonal Speaking and Listening
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Listen to and collaborate with other group members to produce an original radio station with a specific target audience.
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|
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Present a seminar to the class which shares group findings on the characteristics of the target audience for an allocated radio station.
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| Using Texts
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Present a radio station which uses language, content and delivery to target a specific audience.
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| Poetic/Transactional Writing
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Prepare news bulletins, advertisements, stories, plays, community announcements for a specified radio audience.
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| NCEA Link
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| Assessment:
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Formative
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| Achievement Standard:
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AS90056 (English 1.5): View/listen to, study and understand a visual or oral text.
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Introduction
This unit could make use of local radio stations or use a selection of stations broadcasting on the Internet
. For some activities, teachers may need to ask students to bring their own radios to class. To listen to the exemplar below or the radio stations on the web, teachers may need to download a streaming audio application such as Real Player
or Windows Media Player
.
Teacher background reading
Teaching and learning activities
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Assessment
- Students listen to the radio stations produced by other groups filling in the
station_analysis (RTF 48KB)
as they listen. It may be necessary to play the stations more than once, although preferably not consecutively.
- Students use the
assessment (RTF 20KB)
to evaluate how well the group who were allocated to them were able to identify and provide evidence for the target audience for their station.
Resources
Electronic
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Radio Days
Students assume the roles of employees of a local radio station the boss of which grew up during the "Golden Age" of radio. He has decided to add new programming to the station and wants a new mystery/suspense series, informed by research about that golden age.
Other
