Term 4 Week 4: News Article

I'm blogging this because I want show my work. We were learning to write our own News Article

Purple group

• Catchy headline
• Past tense
• No personal pronouns
• Intro, body and conclusion (paragraphs)
• Direct speech
• Different sentence starters/lengths
• Good word choice
• Personal goal

All Blacks Show Who is Boss

On Saturday the 17th, the All Blacks showed the Frenchmen how good they are, giving them a thumping at Millennium Stadium for the Rugby World Cup 2015 Quarter-finals.  9 Tries went the All Blacks way with Julian Savea scoring a hat-trick.  The All Blacks were nervous before the game but in it they pushed aside their fears.  Les Bleus managed to get one try to Number 8 Picamoles but it wasn't enough.

At 7 minutes Dan Carter landed a penalty to get the All Blacks out to an early lead.  However, Les Bleus responded only 2 minutes.  But the first try of the match came to Brodie Retallick.  France were stuck on their own 22 so the halfback passed it to Michalak (The French number 10), and he kicked it.  But suddenly the ball came back down again - it had been charged down Brodie Retallick.  He picked it up, ran to the tryline and scored the game's first try.  A few minutes later France put on 3 more points for themselves.  Then Les Bleus had a chance to make it a one point match but the penalty missed.

 But that’s when the All Blacks started playing amazingly - 2 tries in 6 minutes.  One went to Nehe Milner-Skudder, and the other to Savea.  The French try was the next scoring.  After a successful conversion, the score was tightened to 24-13.  But then came a strike of awesomeness.  The ball was passed to Julian Savea.  Suddenly..BANG! A Frenchmen came bouncing of him BANG! BANG!  Two more Frenchmen bounced off him… and Savea scored a try.  The conversion was unsuccessful and half time came with an All Black lead of 29-13.

 7 minutes after the start of the second spell, Picomoles, try scorer for France, got yellow carded for an apparent “Fist To The Face” on Richie McCaw.  Just a few minutes after the yellow card, Jerome Kaino ran in the corner for the All Blacks 5th try.  After Savea got his hat-trick and Read ran in for a try, the All Blacks lead stretched out to 48-13.  After the try Tawera Kerr-Barlow came on for Aaron Smith, and played amazingly, scoring two tries, both of them right under the posts.  Both conversions went over easily.  There was no scoring from then and All Blacks won by 49 points with a 62-13 win.  The Man of the Match award went to Julian Savea for scoring 3 tries.  The All Blacks had deleted the ghosts of the past.  This game was also the last for the French Fly-Half Fredrick Michalak.  The number 10 went off shortly after Brodie Retallick’s try.  Despite the All Blacks easy win, coach Steve Hansen said that the Springboks would be no joke in the Semi-Final at Twickenham.