Title: 2-week task: Current affairs journal
Course: YTO englanti 3 osp, valinnainen 2019-2020 > Section: Part 2 Being an active citizen in foreign language situations / Aktiivisena kansalaisena toimiminen vieraskielisissä yhteyksissä

First, find out what are some current affairs(ajankohtaiset asiat) hot topics in English-language media. Suggested topics can deal with politics, environment, society(yhteiskunta) etc. Examples: climate change, gender equality, immigration policies.

Choose one or two topics that interest you and follow discussion about these in at least THREE different English-language media sources (newspapers, magazines, TV, radio, social media) for about two weeks. (If you are in a hurry to finish the task, you can do this in a shorter time. But please, try to use media sources that were published/posted online in a pretty short time period - e.g. during the same month) Keep a journal in English, in writing or as an audio recording, where you enter your observations(havainnot) and thoughts regularly (every two or three days would be great). Make sure to indicate your sources, that is, say where you read/heard the information and write in your own words, don't just copy word by word what the article, etc. said.

Here is a short example of what your journal might look like:

3rd March 2020

According to BBC News, last month was the rainiest February ever in the UK since records began in 1862. There were three big rainstorms in the same month, which is unusual. They also report that a Cardiff University survey carried out in October 2019 found twice as many people were now "very or extremely worried" about climate change as in 2016. Climate scepticism has also dropped - from 64% in 2010 to 41% in 2019. (https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51713172?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/cmj34zmwm1zt/climate-change&link_location=live-reporting-story 3rd March 2020) This doesn't surprise me and I'm sure the situation is similar in Finland: Everyone has heard, if not participated in, Greta Thunberg's climate strike and we hear of strange weather all over the world pretty much every day. In Helsinki, this winter has been so mild that it can't even really be called winter.

Submit your journal after this two-week period. Remember to list your sources!

Length: Half to one and a half pages (Times New Roman Font 12), or 1-5 minutes.

Here are some suggested media sources you can use:

https://www.learn-english-today.com/news/news.html (selection of media links suitable for English learners)

www.theguardian.com

https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/

https://www.bbc.com/news

https://twitter.com/search-advanced

https://www.washingtonpost.com

https://www.latimes.com/

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio

And please, avoid plagiarism: https://youtu.be/PzZsButRaHs