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Chosen by its team of editors and writers, the hotly anticipated list of
countries and cities also include Iran, Costa Rica, Washington DC, Ireland, Cuba,
Shanghai, Mozambique, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Somerset, Rio de Janeiro, Kazakhstan, Argentina, San Sebastian
and the Great Barrier Reef.
“We’ve scoured the planet for this year’s must see destinations and come
up with an eclectic list of top spots for culture, cuisine, festive celebrations,
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pristine coastline and places to go. Some are obvious, some not so, but we
think they should be top of anyone’s travel plans in 2016 – and beyond,” the
magazine quoted its editor Pat Riddell as saying.

(Source: www.thehimalayatimes.com)
Questions
a. When was the text written?

b. Which website can you ¿nd this article on?
c. What is the text about?

d. What is the headline of the article?
e. Which tense is used in the heading?
f. What is the source of the news?

B. Time for writing CDC
Write a similar news report on “Lionel Messi wins FIFA world player award
for fi fth time”. Use the following clues to develop the report.
Messi-28-year-old - Barcelona and Argentina forward- won the Ballon d’Or
trophy on Monday - the world’s best player – 2015- ¿fth time- won four straight

FIFA awards from 2009-2012- “It’s incredible that it’s my ¿fth.” - “It’s a very

special moment for me to be back here on the stage,” Messi said in his
acceptance speech - 41.33 per cent of total voting points in a 23 candidate
ballot. Ronaldo - 27.76 per cent - Neymar, Messi’s Barcelona teammate - 7.86
percent. Voting - by national team captains and coaches, plus invited
journalists, from FIFA member countries
C. Follow-up activity
Prepare a brief news report on an event that has recently happened in your
locality. Then present it to the class.
Project Work

Collect news stories from two national English newspapers. Cut the interesting
stories from the papers. Now design a front page of a newspaper by pasting the
cut outs and writing the basic informations like date, day, price, etc.
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