Sport

Sport stories are realistic tales centred around sport. The story emphasises the challenges, conflicts and successes faced by characters involved in an individual or team sport. In our library, sports stories are indicated by this sticker 4

Your task this week is to write a sports report, about a fictional match, for a newspaper. Open the discussion tab to post your article, which should be around 200 words long.

Unlike a story, which starts with an introduction and builds up to the climax, a newspaper article is written in what's called "inverted pyramid" style, with the most important information first. The "lead" or first sentence must answer the questions: who? what? when? where? Paragraphs are very short and direct quotes are used to give immediacy to your writing. Learn more about writing newspaper articles [|here].

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