This learning object looks at a growing form of communication in popular culture - the online newspaper or magazine. Students are welcomed to the office of Kesan!, an internet magazine for guys and girls, and asked to help with four different tasks. They can also view the draft magazine at any time.

The four tasks look at different genres and sections of a 'typical' magazine. They include:

• adding captions to photographs in a feature article

• matching questions and answers in an advice column and composing a suitable title

• completing a film review

• taking a shopping quiz to test its accuracy.

Level of language proficiency

This learning object is designed for advanced grade 8 language students, both in terms of content and language difficulty. Students should expect to use language support and visual cues to predict meaning of text. Magazines from any culture contain a lot of colloquial language appropriate to their target audience. This level of complexity of language is not addressed in this learning object.

All spoken text is accompanied by native-speaker sound and English rollover help is provided for more difficult words.

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