参赛者资格

• 六至八岁、英语为第二语言或为外语之学习者
• 九至十二岁、英语为第二语言或为外语之学习者
• 六至八岁、使用英语、双语或多种语言之孩子
• 九至十二岁、使用英语、双语或多种语言之孩子

你可以自己一个或跟朋友一起参加，上列的各项参赛资格均设有冠军和亚军的奖项，我们亦为大家预备了很多礼品袋。

评选准则

由「你有什么新消息？」（What’s Your News?）团队和英国文化协会组成的评审团会选出四位得奖者（每项参赛资格有一位），评审团会以下列准则评选：

• 你的新消息的题材原创性
• 表达手法的想像力及创意
• 英语的清晰度（说话的时候孩子的话要清晰易明）

参加办法

• 在录制视频前，细心阅读参加办法
• 参加比赛前，细心阅读条款及细则
• 录制你的视频
• 你必须取得家长的同意，请你的家长先注册成为会员，然后上载视频

上载视频

你的父母可由6月24日至10月15日期间上载视频，你的摄录机尺寸设定必须是最少640x360（阔屏幕16：9）或640x480（正常4：3）。短片可以是以下格式：.avi .dv .mov .qt .mpg .mpg2 .mpeg2 .mpeg4 .mp4 .3gp .3g2 .asf .wmv .flv。如你使用手机来拍摄，请以横向拍摄。

给教师 － 让学生参与

教案部份提供了课堂上使用本比赛来学英语的方法，可是我们并不接受以班为单位的参赛者，而且所有参赛者要先征求家长同意，所以我们提议教师们在课堂上介绍此比赛，而学生就与家长一起录制和上载短片。

给家长 － 让孩子参与

教案部份提供了使用本比赛来学英语的方法，所有参赛者要先征求家长同意，参赛表格必须由家长填写。

观看短片，找出错误。

短片中孩子们表现得很好，但是片子的拍摄技术欠妥。

• 该短片是由手机拍摄的。若使用手机拍摄，请务必将手机转至横向位置，不要像本片一样纵向拍摄。
• 请确保拍摄设备音质良好。
• 请保证手机在拍摄过程中处于稳定的位置。
• 请在两侧留有有足够的空间，使What's your News? 标语牌可以很好地展示出来。
• 在短片结尾，请不要忘记微笑15-30秒。如果赢得比赛，What's Your News? 团队将在利用这段时间点评您的片子。

如果短片内容精彩，但是拍摄中有很多不妥之处，那么您的片子依然不会被采用。

参与短片竞赛的十个简易步骤

1. 富有想象力和创造性。尝试想出一些有趣的、引人入胜的新闻。准备一下要说的内容并多加练习。 
    
2. 建议使用三脚架。否则，请将摄像机放置在易于拍摄的平坦处，以确保其在拍摄过程中不会移动。
    
3. 请确保您的摄像机配置为最小的影视尺寸640x360 (宽屏 16:9) or 640x480 (标屏 4:3)。您还可以上传以下格式的文件：avi .dv .mov .qt .mpg .mpg2 .mpeg2 .mpeg4 .mp4 .3gp .3g2 .asf .wmv .flv。若使用手机拍摄，请将其转至横向。 
    
4. 请不要忘记在短片开始时说：“Hello my name is... and my breaking news is...." 不要告诉我们你的姓氏。
    
5. 在短片结尾处，请保持微笑15-30 秒。无需说话，只要望着镜头，微笑。
    
6. 请不要朗读新闻，在短片寄出前多加练习。同时，练习一下拍摄技术。
    
7. 在拍摄过程中，请不要走动，说话要清晰。确保没有噪音。 
    
8. 短片中不要加入背景音乐，不要出现任何服饰的品牌形象。.
    
9. 你必须先征得父母的同意，方可参加这个竞赛。请让你的父母在此 登记 并 上传 你的短片。
    
10. 享受制作短片的乐趣吧！

1. Go to http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/kids-news/news and show the page to the class but don't start the video yet.
    
2. Talk about any other What’s your news? clips that you’ve watched. Can the students remember any of the children’s news? Can students identify the main characters from the show? (Grant is the presenter with a blue tie, Antony is the other anteater presenter, Gi Ant is the interviewer with a microphone.)
    
3. Watch the video. Ask very young learners to count how many children they see. Ask older learners to remember names and news. Encourage students to sing along with the intro song – ‘What’s your news, news, news?’.
    
4. Hand out worksheets to the students. Watch the video again and ask students to complete the worksheets.
   Click on 'Print an easy activity to do with this video for younger learners' or click on 'Print an activity to do with this video' for older students.
    
5. Tell the students that you want to know about their news. You could elicit news from students by playing the role of Gi Ant the interviewer. Use an imaginary microphone or even better – print out the one from the Interview Pack and stick it on card: 

   With younger learners focus on today’s news or familiar topics. Prompt students to give news such as The weather in my city is…., My best friend is called….., My sister/ brother / mum / dad / school / pet.... Write up some of the news on the board. You can draw simple images to represent each piece of news.

   With older students or bilingual students you could show the scrolling news on the What’s your news? website as a prompt: www.whatsyournews.com

   You could display or hand out the What’s your news? Headline Chart:
   Students can complete their real (or invented!) news for each day of the week.

6. Tell the students that they are going to practise talking about their news. Demonstrate an interview to the class with a stronger student. The teacher takes the role of the interviewer (use an imaginary one or cut out microphone from the interview pack) and the student can talk about news from his/her list or the board. Then swap roles. 

   With younger learners ask the question: “What’s your news?” and feed in language like My name’s…. and my news is that……And that’s all. You could write this language on the board for students to refer to later.

   With older students or bilingual students ask some of the questions from the competition instructions: What happened? When did it happen? Who was there? Where were you? How did you feel?

7. In pairs, students prepare and practise talking about their news. They should take turns being the interviewer. Let them write dialogues or sentences if they want. Monitor, check they are taking turns and give lots of help and encouragement. Decide in advance if you want your students to make and use the interview props from the Interview Pack.
    
8. Students take turns to perform their interviews to the class. You could hold a class vote to decide on a winner if appropriate. Encourage a round of applause after viewing.
    
9. The filming itself and the submission of entries needs to take place in the students' home as they will need their parents' permission to take part and submit a video. If appropriate for your teaching context, you could set the task as homework. As they will have practised in the class the role of the parent is to film their child and help them upload the video to the website in order to enter the film for the competition. If possible, print a leaflet to give to your students with the information about the competition and the website address. Unfortunately we can not accept entries from a whole class or from students with their only their teacher's permission as this would break data protection rules. 

Extension Activities

• Students can interview their friends and family for homework using the same question prompts.
• Students can make a What’s your news? film set.
• There are more games, activities and film clips on the What’s your news? website: www.whatsyournews.com
• This lesson plan has been written for an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) classroom but you can adapt the ideas and use it with other teaching contexts. We suggest with bilingual, multilingual or English speaking children you could extend the above activities and help students create their own class newspaper with their breaking news articles. 

For Parents

1. Go to http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/kids-news/news and look at the page with your child but don't start the video yet.
    
2. Talk about any other What’s your news? clips that your child has watched either at home or at school. Can your child remember any of the children’s news? Can he or she identify the main characters from the show? (Grant is the presenter with a blue tie, Antony is the other anteater presenter, Gi Ant is the interviewer with a microphone.)
    
3. Watch the video. Ask very young children to count how many children they see in the video. Ask older children to remember names and news. The intro song has a very catchy tune. You could sing along together with the song – ‘What’s your news, news, news?’.
    
4. Complete a worksheet. There are worksheets for younger and older kids so first decide which worksheet is appropriate for your child. Click on 'Print an easy activity to do with this video for younger learners' or click on 'Print an activity to do with this video' for older kids. Watch the video again and encourage your child to complete the worksheet. The answers are at the bottom of the page. Fold over the page or cut them off to avoid temptation if you like! You can also look at the audioscript to help your child answer the questions.
    
5. Tell your child that you want to know about their news. You could play the role of Gi Ant the interviewer and ask your child What’s your news?. Use an imaginary microphone or even better – print out the one from the interview pack and stick it on card. If you have more than one child they could play together and take it in turns to be the interviewer.
    
   With a younger child, focus on today’s news or familiar topics. You could demonstrate by asking your child to interview you first. Give news such as 'The weather in my city is…., My best friend is called….., My sister/ brother/pet.' A child who is new to learning English may find it easier to talk about things happening at the moment rather than things that happened yesterday or last week. If your child has a school course book  check what he or she has done in class and revise some of the words  from the book. For example, if they have studied ‘sports’ in class you could talk about favourite sports …'I like Tae Kwando. My mum likes swimming. My dad likes….'
   
   With older or bilingual children you could watch the scrolling news on the What’s your news? website to provide some ideas. You could print the What’s your news? headline chart. Children can complete their real (or invented!) news for each day of the week.
    
6. Practise before you film. Remember that your video can only be 2 minutes long or shorter. Practise first to build confidence and to help you and your child to keep it short. 

With younger children help them practise expressions like 'My name’s…. and my news is that…' 'And that’s all'. You could write some notes to help them if you like. Remember that your child doesn’t have to produce ‘perfect’ English. A few mistakes are fine so don’t feel that it’s necessary to correct everything. The emphasis is on having fun using English.

With older students or bilingual students encourage them to include answers to some of the questions from the competition instructions in their news: What happened? When did it happen? Who was there? Where were you? How did you feel? They can make notes to help them remember what they want to say but don't read from a script. Using a few notes as a memory aids makes you sound much more natural.

Look on the competition 'Overview' page to see an example video of a bilingual child talking about her news. Then film your child. The judges want to see fun, imaginative videos where you can hear clearly what the child is saying.

Filming tips

• Think about background. Will you have a colourful wall display, a bookshelf, posters on the wall or a plain background?
• Make sure your child is clearly visible and not camouflaged by too much background activity.
• Think about lighting. Avoid filming in front of a window.
• Will your child be sitting or standing? It might be easier to keep him or her in one place if they are sitting.
• Use a tripod if you have one or put the camera on a flat surface to make sure that it doesn’t move.
• Try to find a quiet place to film.
• Smile and enjoy yourself!
• Watch your film!

When you and your child are happy with your video clip you can register and then upload the video clip.

There are lots of extra activities that your child can do alone or with your help. After (or before) filming your child can make a What’s your news? film set. There are also games, activities and film clips on the What’s your news? website.

Have fun!

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条款与准则

1. 比赛活动What's Your News?遵循以下条款与准则。参赛者须接受所有的条款与准则，才有资格参加比赛。
2. 此项比赛的参与者应为将英语作为第二语言或外语、英语双语或多语的6-12岁的小朋友（参赛者须在比赛的截止日期前 - 2011年10月15日，年满6岁并且不超过12岁）。英国文化协会和 TT Animations 的员工，以及其亲友、家人或相关人员均不可以参加比赛。比赛主办单位有权要求参赛者出具资格证明。
3. 所有参赛者须得到家长或监护人的同意及允许才可以参加比赛，比赛主办单位有权要求参赛者提供相关同意证明材料。家长可通过提交在线报名表，同意孩子参加比赛。
4. 参赛短片可以以个人或两人小组的名义提交。如果参赛短片是以三人或以上的团队名义提交，那么您的参赛作品无效。
5. 参赛者可以提交多个短片，但每名得奖者只能获得一个奖项。
6. 短片内容为英语新闻视频，也可以是生活中的事件，如：掉在洞里、煮饭、邀请朋友等。可以参考网站上的视频短片、教学计划，激发更多的创作灵感。
7. 参赛作品长度为1-2分钟，可以通过以下的格式上传您的作品： avi .dv .mov .qt .mpg .mpg2 .mpeg2 .mpeg4 .mp4 .3gp .3g2 .asf .wmv .flv. 若使用手机拍摄，请确认手机是横向进行拍摄的。
8. 参赛短片需要通过参赛者填写网上的表格完成上传。参赛者的联络方式和所有必须填写的项目要填写妥当。所有参赛的短片必须在以英国时间2011年10月15日前提交。
9. 在规定期限之后提交的作品将不予考虑。英国文化协会不对提交短片/文件的损毁、遗失或者无法读取负任何责任。
10. 参赛者提交的What's Your News?的参赛短片必须是参赛者的原作。短片不可以涉及第三者的材料或内容（如影片、声音、音乐、文字及图片）。英国文化协会不对参赛者违反任何版权或其他第三方权力的纠纷负任何责任。
11. 所有涉及或包含诽谤、攻击、淫秽、不适当或非法内容的参赛作品，主办方有权不予接受。
12. 奖项设置。位列前四名（每个类别设置一个奖项）的视频中，将有What's Your News?的GI-ANT 或其他项目工作人员亮相，视频也将出现在LearnEnglishKids网站上。冠军得主还将赢得Flip Video™摄像机一部，以及英国文化协会What's Your News?项目组的礼品袋和比赛证书。亚军得主将会获得Flip Video™摄像机一部，以及英国文化协会What's Your News?项目组的礼品袋和比赛证书。另外，我们会随机抽出一百位参赛幸运者，他们将获得英国文化协会What's Your News?项目组的礼品袋一个。每位参赛者都可以下载和打印参赛证书。
13. 得奖者将由评审团从所有符合规定的参赛短片中选出。评审人员包括来自英国文化协会和TT Animations的代表。
14. 评审团将通过短片呈现的想象力与创造性来决定获奖者。所有语言级别的参赛者机会均等。
15. 评选的结果将会是最终的决定，没有其他方可以介入。
16. 得奖者将会收到电话或电邮的通知，得奖者的名单将会在LearnEnglish Kids 网站上公布。我们会努力去联系得奖者。如果多次联系不到，主办单位会选出下一位最好的参赛者获得此奖项。
17. 主办单位须征得参赛者家长的同意，才会将获奖的短片或其他短片上传到LearnEnglishKids 的网站。TT animations 只会在获奖的短片中放入团队的角色，除此目的外，参赛短片将不会做任何的改动，不会涉取任何的个人信息。
18. 奖品不可转让和出售。在比赛主办方认为合理的情况下，主办单位保留权力以其他与公布奖品等值的奖品作替代。奖品将不会以现金来替代。
19. 所有参赛者将保留其在What's Your News?比赛中提交短片的拥有权。短片一经提交，参赛者便授予主办方通用的、非独有且免版税的授权和可转让的许可，以任何目的使用、复制、分发、制作衍生作品，展示、改编、重新格式化、翻译及开发和执行递交短片的全部或任何部分，包括无限制在任何及所有媒体格式和通过任何及所有媒体发行、宣传和推广目的下，推广英国文化协会和What's Your News?的活动。以上事项将不会予以审计，通知，信贷和义务给参赛者。此外，参赛者亦同意主办方可以以运作和编辑的原因来编辑和再演绎短片的内容，但前提是不损害参与者的形象和声音。
20. 一旦参加比赛，任何后继得奖者允许和同意英国文化协会和What's Your News?项目组以宣传和推广此项目或者用作新闻目的（包括印刷出版物、编辑和公开的活动，网站）使用和去发布参赛者的姓名、相片、图片、所有个人的及其他资料（包括拍摄的地点）。
21. What's Your News?的主办单位是英国文化协会——一个被纳为Royal Charter的机构，在英格兰和威尔士（慈善编号209131）和苏格兰（慈善编号 SC037733）注册为慈善机构。英国文化协会主办事处位于10 Spring Gardens, London SW1A 2BN。
22. What's Your News?项目的举办符合英国的法律。
23. 英国文化协会保留所有权力，如果在不可预见的情况下作出无法避免的改动来取消或修改条款和准则，那么这些改动将不会事先通知，但随后会在www.learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org 进行公布。
24. 如有因翻译而产生的歧义，这些条款和准则将以英文版本为最终的依据。

如何上传拍摄好的短片？

征得父母的同意之后，方可以参加我们的比赛。你的父母需要帮助你 注册 并在 这里 上传你的短片。

我可以上传什么格式的短片？

我们接受以下各种格式的短片： avi .dv .mov .qt .mpg .mpg2 .mpeg2 .mpeg4 .mp4 .3gp .3g2 .asf .wmv .flv。

短片页面比例的要求是什么？

短片的页面比例至少为640x360 (宽屏16:9) 或640x480 (标屏4:3)。你也可以上传分辨率稍低的短片，比如用手机拍摄的视频，但是效果可能会不太好。

文件大小的限制是什么？

30MB。