Ideas for major event

For the next part of the unit you will be researching, discussing and writing a report on the impact of a major event.

At this stage what you need to do is to start to come up with some ideas of major events.


Pick at least three events and which you would like to research and list them on the class blog.

Clearly state which of these is your preference. Remember you will only be researching one of these events.

As this research will form part of your work for your HN Events unit, Caroline Paterson will need to confirm that your choice of event is appropriate.

Reading Assessment

We continued with the reading assessment today. Again, this is quite a challenging assessment - the document which you are summarising and analysing is quite formal and quite complex. It is the kind of document that you may need to read if you pursue a career in events management.

When we come back, we'll finish this off. If you have any comments, queries or concerns, please use the comment function at the end of this post to share them.

In the meantime, have a good break.

Starting on the reading assessment

Today I introduced the first assessment. This assessment requires you to summarise and evaluate a complex document.

I gave out a copy of the Price Waterhouse Coopers report Olympic Games Impact Study (OCIS).

We looked at the introduction and I gave some backgound on the report.

I gave out the questions for the report and told people the section of the report which needed to be summarised (this is also on the question sheet - ie. pp 12-15).

You are allowed to take the report home over the week to work on the summary of this section(but not the questions).

Analysis of report - Tourism and Olympics

Today we started off by looking at the five summaries which the groups produced last week. Most people felt that Conor and Liam's was a strong one as it summarised by paragraph and was concise without losing the main points. Also, Harry commented that they managed to provide a good summary of the fairly complex point being made about funding in the last paragraph of that report.

We moved on, then, to look at another report (simply called "Olympic Report" click here to see a copy).

Having looked at summary skills last week, we were more interested in developing analysis skills - that is, looking and commenting on how a text is put together.

First we identified the purpose (the stated and the actual purpose are not always the same) and the intended reader (tourist trade and those involved with Olympics for this one). Bearing this information in mind, we looked at how the writers of the report used language, graphics, structure and layout to achieve their purpose.

At the end we discussed each group's analysis and I asked everyone to complete questions 3, 4 and 5 from the handout which I gave out today. That's due for next week.

Next week, we will make a start on the first assessment: summarising and analysing a complex document.

Please feel free to use the comment function at the end of the posts to ask questions or to make comments ....