1、Unit7 Front Page News Listening and Speaking Language learning objectives:To help students review the textTo enable students to describe a newspaperTo enable students to make a dialogue on news Skill and ability objectives: To develop students ability to listen for specific informationTo develop stu
2、dents speaking ability of describing a newspaperTo develop students speaking ability of communicating on a piece of newsAid:Multi-mediaProcedure:I. Text review 1. Review the words and phrases in the text2. Review the contents of the textII. Listening 1. Listen to the dialogue and do “True or False”2
3、. Listen to the dialogue and correct the false statements3. Listen to the dialogue and write down the adjectives and adjective phrases used to describe The TimesIII. Speaking1. Describe The Times with the adjectives and adjective phrases mentioned2. Make a dialogue according to the news given1) Lear
4、n how to start a dialogue2) Learn how to respond to a piece of news3) Read a piece of news for some details4) Make a dialogue according to the news givenAssignments:1. Describe Shanghai Times (申江服务导报 ) in 8 to 10 sentences orallyAspect Adjectives & Adjective Phrases (for reference)General idea well-
5、arranged, beautifully-printed, specialHistory January 1, 1998Feature informative, fashionableSection 2. Preview additional reading on P. 91(when, where, who, what, why, how) Olympic Flame atop Mt. Qomolangma The Olympic flame made its first trip to Mountain Qomolangma last Thursday. Chinese mountain
6、 climbers brought it to the top of the world at 9:18 a.m. Beijing time that day.The climbing team was mainly made up of 36 members including 3 females. And 19 climbers were finally selected to bring the Olympic flame from the attack camp (突击营) to the highest point of Mount Qomolangma. Heavy snowfall
7、 on May 2 and 3 once stopped the climb. But as soon as the weather turned favorable, the great team continued making their way to the top successfully.Strong Earthquake Hits Southwest ChinaA strong earthquake, 7.8 Richter (里氏) scale, shook Wenchuan County in southwest Chinas Sichuan Province at 2:28
8、 p.m. Monday (May 12).The death total in Sichuan alone has climbed to nearly 10,000.The quake was also felt in Tianjin, Chongqing, Shanghai, Ningxia, Henan. Many other parts of China, even the remote southern island province of Hainan, felt the quake. So did Bangkok, the capital of Thailand.Presiden
9、t Hu Jintao on Monday ordered all-out efforts to help those victims. And relief supplies (救援物资) are on the way.2008 Lujiazui Forum (陆家嘴论坛) ClosesLujiazui forum, Shanghais first high-level international finance forum, closed last Saturday in Shanghai. The theme of this two-day forum is “Deepening Fin
10、ancial(财政的，金融的) Reform-China and the World”. Zhou Xiaochuan (governor or Peoples Bank of China) and Han Zheng (Mayor of Shanghai) are chairmen of the forum.The forum aims at bringing together influential government officials, financial leaders and scholars to discuss how to further the financial ref
11、orm and market opening of China.Hundreds of Spiders for A NetHave you ever seen hundreds of spiders gathering for a net? Maybe you think it is just a joke. But it is true. On May 12, a photo was taken of hundreds of spiders gathering among some branches of a tree in Suicuan (遂川), Jiangxi Province. For us, it may seem special, but experts say it is normal. This phenomenon (现象 ) appears just because of the wet weather these days. Once the weather turns fine, the spiders will dismiss naturally.
