1、单位：湖北省荆门 姓名：李国 E_mail： Unit 4 Making the news Teaching Goals: 1. Enable the Ss to get some knowledge about basic procedures of making the news. 2. how to make newspapers of TV programmes. 3. Talk about news and the media. 4 Practise expressing opinions. Teaching methods 1). Skimming the second one
2、shows radio; the third one shows TV programmes; the fourth one shows magazines; the fifth one shows newspapers. T: Quite right! Now, please work in groups of four and discuss the five questions below the pictures. A few minutes later, Ill check your answers. OK? Ss: OK. T: You can begin now. (A few
3、minutes later. ) T: Are you ready now? Ss: Yes. T: Which group would like to talk about the first question? (Choose one member of your group to answer the question. ) S1: I think TV is the most reliable among the news media. TV consists of a series of lively consecutive pictures. For the people who
4、want to know what is exactly happening, a picture responds better to offer the truth of a fact than the mere words upon a page. It can offer a unique function of seemingly on-the-spot feeling, which is not available to the other media. T: The second question? S2. I think TV programmes are easy for m
5、ost people to understand. Radio, can only be heard and sometimes cant be picked up clearly. Newspapers and magazines are only useful for people who can read. Websites have many different pages, but you should be careful to read some of the pages. Website have many different pages, but you should be
6、careful to read some of the pages. T: The third question? S3 : I will check other sources. T: The fourth question? S4: Every morning, the newspaper chief editor and the journalists discuss the main events of the day. Reporters are then sent to cover the events. They usually do some interviews and th
7、en check the information. They must work very fast. Later in the day, everything is put together at the news desk. Then the editors read the stories and make any necessary changes and choose a good title for each story. At last, they print them quickly and deliver them. Making a magazine is more or
8、less the same as making a newspaper. But the articles in a magazine are more like stories, which are written by all kinds of writers. Magazines are not published as quickly as newspapers. T: The last question? Ss: News broadcast, newspaper, magazine, radio programme, website, report, reporter, edito
9、r, interview, write articles Step Listening T: Next, lets come to the Listening. We are going to listen to two parts of conversations. The first part is an interview; the second part is a dialogue. Now, look at Exercise 1: Listen carefully towhat is said and tick the information you hear in each par
10、t. If necessary, Ill play 单位：湖北省荆门 姓名：李国 E_mail： it twice. (Teacher begins to play the tape, and checks the answers after listening. Then ask the students to finish the rest of the tasks. ) T: OK. Now, please listen to each part once again and then work in pairs to talk about the questions in Exerc
11、ises 2,3,4 and 5. Are you clear? Ss: Yes. (Teacher allows them enough time to talk about the questions. Then ask some students to say their answers.) Step IV Speaking T: Well, now its time for us to be the editors of a newspaper. Here is a list of ten things that happened today. Look at the screen.
12、(Teacher shows the screen and read through the list to the whole class.) 200 people died in an earthquake in Turkey. China beat Brazil 5-1 in football. France elected a new President. Three children from your city were killed. Someone robbed a bank in Shanghai. Food prices are going up. A house in y
13、our town burned down. Nobody was injured. 2 000 people in your city were happy today and moved into new buildings. A Chinese scientist has invented a new car engine that does not pollute the air. There is a rumor that a large company wants to build a factory in your town: (Bb :go up, burn down) T: N
14、ow, youve known the ten things, but you only need to report five of them. So, first decide which events you are going to put in your newspaper. Then give reasons for your choices and compare with your classmates. Work in groups of four or five. And the following expressions on the screen can help yo
15、u with your dialogue. After a while, Ill ask some of you to act out your dialogue. (Teacher shows the screen. ) What do you think of? I would rather choose. Whats your opinion? I dont think we should choose Why do you choose Maybe it would be better to choose Perhaps is more important. Our readers w
16、ant to know about. (Teacher goes around the Ss and checks their work. If necessary, teacher may join in them. ) Period 1 Reading. Teaching aims:1. Target languageoccupation, do research, on ones own, cover, concentrate on, acquire, accuseof, so as to, scoop1) Not till you are more experienced!2) You
17、ll find your colleagues very eager to assist you and if you are interested in photography, it may be possible for you to concentrate on that later on.单位：湖北省荆门 姓名：李国 E_mail： 3) Not only am I interested in photography, but I took a course at university, so its actually of special interest to me.4) On
18、ly if you ask many questions will you acquire all the information you need to know. 5) We say a good reporter must have a “nose” for a story.6) This is a trick of the trade.7) Have you ever had a case where somebody accused your reporters of getting the wrong end of the stick?8) Perhaps I too will g
19、et a scoop! 2. Ability goal1) Enable the students to talk about qualities needed to be a good reporter and how to conduct a good interview2) Train the students reading ability(skimming, detail reading). Teaching important points:Help the students learn about the qualities need to be a good reporter,
20、 how to get an accurate story and how to protect a story form accusation. Teaching difficult points:How to help the students learn about the qualities need to be a good reporter, how to get an accurate story and how to protect a story form accusation. Teaching methods:Cooperative learning, task-base
21、d learning, fast-reading. Teaching aids:A computer, a blackboard, a tape-record. Teaching procedures:Step Lead-in1. Greeting2. Ask Ss some questions about their future jobs.1) Have you ever considered about your future job or occupation?2) What kind of occupation would you like to take? / Whats your
22、 ideal of job in future? 单位：湖北省荆门 姓名：李国 E_mail： Why?Step Warming-up1. Ask Ss to look at newspapers previously prepared and guess what kind of jobs would be needed to produce newspaper articles.2. Ask Ss to work in pairs and fill in the chart ( types of jobs, what each type of job involves) Referenc
23、e Chart: Profession What it involvesreporter/ journalist Interview people or finds out events from onlookers and writes news storieseditor checks the writing and facts and makes changes if necessaryphotographer takes photographs of important people or eventscritic gives opinion on plays and booksdes
24、igner lay out articles and photographsforeign correspondent reports form abroadStep Pre-reading1. Ask the Ss work in pairs to discuss the qualities need for a newspaper reporter and evaluate which qualities they consider are the most important, and they can also make some complements. Put all the qu
25、alities on the board in a list and alongside them put two columns: one for the most important ones and one for important qualities. Ask one from each pair to give their findings on (what they consider) very important and important qualities. Put a tick for each one in the correct column. Count up th
26、e ticks and write down the three most important qualities and the three important qualities.2. Ask the Ss to work in pairs to discuss an occasion of this sort that they remember e.g. fist day at a new school, and ask them to consider why they remember it and especially how they felt. Then choose som
27、e of them to tell their experiences.3. Discuss what all the experiences have in common and what they can do单位：湖北省荆门 姓名：李国 E_mail： Make themselves feel better Make others feel betterStep Reading1. Fast reading. Ask the Ss to go through the whole passage as fast as they can and try to find answers to
28、 the following questions.(Shown on the blackboard)1) Could Zhou Yang go out on a story alone immediately? Why (not)?2) What mistakes must he avoid?3) How did Zhou Yang feel on his first day at work?2. Ask the Ss to pay attention to the way the questions develop in the dialogue (Explain to them that
29、all of these questions are finding out more about the qualities and skills needed for the job)3. Ask the Ss to follow the tape and read the passage again and then do the Exercise in comprehending part together. (For detail, refer to the PPT)Step Language pointsExplain some difficult language points as listed in the PPT. (Omitted, just refer to the correspondent PPT)Step Homework1. Practice reading aloud the dialogue with your partner. Pay attention to the intonation and stress.2. Read a newspaper and try to discover something to do with our topic about it.
