Waching daily Mar 2 2018

Hi everyone. It's Jennifer here with a special kind of lesson.

I plan to give you some tips and a short task to help you practice your English,

particularly your grammar.

Do you think someone will ever write about you in the news?

If they did, what would you want the article to be about?

Well, we might never make the headlines, but we can still enjoy reading them. In fact,

it's an interesting and useful form of practice.

Here are five forms of language practice you can try.

You can scan the headlines in English every day on a favorite website.

Even on your busiest day, you can find one or two minutes to read the titles of the top stories.

If there are unfamiliar words, note them and then look them up when you have the time.

If a particular headline interests you, email the article to yourself. Then read it later when you have more time.

News articles can be challenging to understand, but with the help of a learner's dictionary

or an online translation tool you, can get support.

I'll list some free resources in the video description.

Learn to make predictions.

Look at the headline.

Before you read the full story,

predict what some of the details will be.

You can say or write your predictions. As you read, you'll be focused on whether your predictions were right or wrong.

Learn to summarize what you read. It's very good practice to think about what you just read and

summarize the main points.

You can say or write a few sentences to capture the basic story or argument.

Use the headlines to practice sentence structure and grammar forms. How?

Take a headline and rewrite it as a full sentence.

To do that you have to understand the grammar used by journalists.

Articles and other determiners are usually omitted.

Determiners are little words before nouns like

some, his, her...

The simple present is used for present and past events

They do this to make the actions seem more dynamic. The wording is more exciting and it catches your interest.

Helping verbs are usually omitted.

Title punctuation is used. Patterns vary.

Some news sources use sentence punctuation in the headlines, but without a period.

But many sources still use title punctuation,

capitalizing the first and last words as well as keywords like nouns, verbs,

adjectives and adverbs.

Some sources capitalize all prepositions or no prepositions.

Other sources capitalize only longer prepositions.

If you ever have to title your work, just be consistent in your practice.

Could see all three of these variations in news publications.

Here are additional patterns you'll see in the headlines.

Infinitives are used to express future actions.

The verb be is often omitted,

leaving a prepositional phrase, an adjective, or a past participle.

When it comes to numbers, the media likes to use numerals or figures rather than words

because figures are easier to read.

You'll see variation with punctuation, especially with direct speech.

Sometimes single quotation marks are put around a quoted statement or a few words of direct speech.

So here's your practice task: visit a news website. I'll list some suggestions in the video description.

Scan the headlines, meaning the titles of the major stories.

Choose one headline, copy it for me, and then rewrite it

as a complete sentence, using standard grammar and punctuation.

Please choose appropriate topics for all ages as there are some young learners who will read these comments, okay?

Before we end I'd like to review how we can use the word "headline."

As a singular noun, "headline" refers to the title of a news article.

It's what you see first above the full story.

The headline is usually in a larger font and is in boldfaced letters.

You could say, "the headline caught my attention."

As a plural noun, "headlines" refers to the top stories in the news.

You'll hear these phrases:

So if a story made the headlines. it got into the news.

I hope you found this useful, and I look forward to reading your sentences based on the latest headlines.

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CNN 10 | CNN Student News | March 2, 2018 | China's coal conundrum - Duration: 10:02.

Fridays are awesome!

And we`re happy you`re spending 10 minutes of your Friday to get updated on events from

around the

world.

I`m Carl Azuz for CNN 10.

In China, debate is burning over what the country should do about coal.

China is the world`s largest consumer of coal, more than 60 percent of the nation`s energy

comes from the fossil fuel.

But to generate that energy,

coal has to be burned.

And when it is, it gives off emissions like carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, mercury, ash

and particulates, all of which can

pollute the environment.

And China has struggled for years with hazardous air pollution.

The government launched a war on pollution a few years ago.

It aimed to convert the nation`s energy sources from coal to cleaner forms of energy

like natural gas.

But that comes at a cost.

Coal is cheap.

It`s relatively inexpensive to mine, inexpensive to buy, inexpensive to burn.

So, weighing coal`s impact on the environment against

its impact on the consumer created a catch-22 for the government.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The winter in northern China doesn`t care

if you`re poor, doesn`t care that Huang Yi Min (ph) is 75, has

heart problems, is partially paralyzed.

The harsh air is relentless.

And in the depths of poverty, coal is his only way to fight back.

Coal is so dirty.

Leaves black soot all over, he says.

So one shovelful at a time, he feeds a furnace next to his bed -- not ideal but it`s the

only kind of heat he can afford, which is why the government

ban on coal is so brutal.

I had to burn it secretly, he says.

How else could we survive?

Coal is cheap and the primary heat source here, where many household incomes are as

little as a few dollars a day.

But burning coal is also a

major reason why the air here can look like this, a "Mad Max" style hellscape, eye-burning

air pollution so thick you can taste it.

So, in October 2017 the Hubei (ph) province government banned residential coal use.

Instead, they hastily installed these yellow pipes meant to

carry cleaner natural gas to people`s homes.

(on camera): But what homeowners are telling us is that buying that natural gas to their

heat their homes would be way more expensive than

using coal and, in most cases, it would be completely unaffordable.

(voice-over): But even if you had enough money to buy natural gas, supply shortages meant

that a lot of these pipes are empty.

People were freezing;

coal was still being burned and the public backlash was fierce, unusual in Communist

China.

So Beijing took notice.

The ban on burning coal was lifted in December but the effects have lingered.

Mr. Wong`s (ph) hands aren`t usually clean but they were during the ban because he wasn`t

allowed to sell coal anymore.

He is back at it now but

business isn`t good.

People don`t dare buy too much, he says.

They fear coal could be banned again at any moment.

Huang Yi-min (ph) resents the choice that he was forced to make: follow the law or freeze.

We are not being taken care of by the people in Beijing.

They don`t listen to us.

The government says it`s working on new lasting solutions but the winter won`t wait while

they figure things out.

Matt Rivers, Hubei Province, China.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

AZUZ (voice-over): Ten-second trivia.

Where would you most likely find an SoC?

Smartphone, calendar, wharf, or analog watch?

SoC is an abbreviation for system on a chip, part of a smartphone that combines memory,

graphics, a modem (ph) and other components.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

AZUZ: Nine hours per day, that`s how long American teenagers spend using media, everything

from TV to video games and books, music and social media.

And this is in their leisure time, what they chose to do for their enjoyment.

It does not include any media they use for school work.

It`s all according to Common Sense Media, a nonprofit group that examines the impact

that technology can have on kids, parents and teachers.

And

because the organization also says that 50 percent of American teenagers report feeling

addicted to mobile devices, they`ve teamed up with another

nonprofit called the Center for Humane Technology to examine the effects that all this tech

is having on young people.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

LAURIE SEGALL, CNN TECH SENIOR CORRESPONDENT: We heard a lot on addiction and technology,

what this is something a little bit larger than you guys

are launching.

So, take me through it.

JIM STEYER, CEO, COMMON SENSE MEDIA: So, we`re launching a major new national campaign the

truth about tech.

The point is to educate the

public, opinion leaders, government officials and the tech industry about the impact of

technology on kids` brains and how this is affecting our

society, both pro and con.

SEGALL: I`ve known you from many years and you`ve been talking about this for a really

long time.

Take me back to when you first started thinking,

OK, we`ve got to start paying attention to the impact of technology.

TRISTAN HARRIS, CO-FOUNDER, CENTER FOR HUMANE TECHNOLOGY: I`ve started working on these

issues in 2013.

All of these companies are competing to

get attention.

They`re not going to stop you and it`s not enough to use the products, I have to reach

deeper down the brain and took you and create

an unconscious habit or an addiction to hold on to that 30 minutes like (INAUDIBLE) on

your day on Facebook or on Snapchat.

SEGALL: When you look at the business model for these companies, they are built on getting

us to pick up our phone more.

We live in this attention

economy.

So, can these tech companies really make changes without fundamentally shifting the way that

their business works?

STEYER: We`re not particularly overnight success.

This is a multi-year effort and we`re going inside to tech companies and we believe that

long

term, both from the bottom up with grassroots public support or from the top-down, with

intelligence legislative efforts, the combination can make

fundamental change, explain the truth about tech and make really positive solution.

HARRIS: I need some simple things like right now you`re listening to this, turn off all

notifications on your phone except when a human being, a

person, wants your attention.

That`s one simple change you can make today.

Another can be very popular just recently, is turning your phone in gray

(ph), you can see that.

But make your phone gray, it takes out all those chip-like slot machine will work.

It has a huge impact of feeling like

your phone is more of a tool and less like an addictive substance.

SEGALL: Do you think we can put the genie inside the bottle?

HARRIS: I don`t think it`s up (INAUDIBLE) somehow.

I think this is game over unless we fix it.

I think that we have to take (INAUDIBLE) you

realize that every time you open up that Facebook icon, you just activated a super computer

that`s going to play chess against your mind to figure out

what`s the perfect thing I can show you.

And it`s only going to get better and better and better at doing that, and you realize

you`re bringing a

knife, you know, millions of (INAUDIBLE) sharing hardware, you know, up to that against a super

computer.

You`re going to lose.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

AZUZ: Today`s "10 Out of 10" report goes to a rescue flight in the Democratic Republic

of Congo that turned into a bonding experience between

the pilot and a baby chimpanzee.

Mosa (ph), the chimpanzee, was apparently orphaned by poachers.

But while he was on a flight to a primate rescue and rehab center, he made a new

friend.

He was even allowed to adjust the throttle at one point.

The pilot said the video looks cute, but in an ideal world, the baby chimp would be with

its mother.

Still, his new home is with an organization that

says its mission is to give the best possible care to orphan primate and conservationists

there say the chimp appears to be in good spirits.

Of course, if a pilot were to adopt an animal like that, he`d be a chimp off the old block.

They could become prime mates.

The animal story might

have started tragically, but all considered, it had a happy landing.

And it`s where we touch down for the week on CNN 10.

I`m Carl Azuz.

Thank you for being the best part of our show.