1、1Unit 4 Making the news一、三维目标、知识与技能1、Enable the students to talk about qualities needed to be a good reporter and how to conduct a good interview。2、Train the students reading ability(skimming, detail reading)3、Enable the Ss to know how to use some expressions in an idiomatic way.4、Help the students
2、learn how to use Inversions correctly.5、Enable the Ss to get some basic knowledge about the writing and printing processof an article.、过程与方法1、Six period(Reading、Learning about Language、Grammar、Extensive Reading、Listening and Speaking、Writing)2、cooperative learning、task-based learning、fast-reading、fa
3、st-reading method、explaining、discussion and practicing、inductive and deductive methods、discussion、debating 、情感态度与价值观1、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.2、Students learn what they can do as a reporter
4、/ journalist，editor， photographer， critic，designer，foreign correspondent。二、教学步骤 （Teaching Procedure）Period 1 ReadingStep Lead-in1. Greeting2. Ask Ss some questions about their future jobs.21) Have you ever considered about your future job or occupation?2) What kind of occupation would you like to ta
5、ke? / Whats your ideal of job in future? 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) Reference Chart:
6、 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 booksdesigner la
7、y 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 qualities
8、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 the ticks
9、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 3e.g. fist day at a new school, and ask them to consider why they remember it and especially how they felt. Then choose some of th
10、em to tell their experiences.3. Discuss what all the experiences have in common and what they can do 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 the following questions.1) Co
11、uld 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.3. Ask the Ss to follow the tape and read the passage again and then do the E
12、xercise in comprehending part together. 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
13、 and try to discover something to do with our topic about it.Period 2 Learning about LanguageStep Greetings4Step RevisionT: Yesterday we talked about the qualities needed to be a good reporter, how to get an accurate story and how to protect a story from accusation. Now Id like you to tell me what q
14、ualities a reporter should have. (Ask a Ss to share their knowledge with others)Step Discovering useful words and expressions1. Ex1 on page 28. Give Ss directions that they should find the idiomatic expressions used in the text to match with the expressions given in the Activity. Then check and make
15、 some necessary explanation.2. Ex2 on page 28. Ask the Ss to finish Exercise 2 and then check the answer and make some explanation if needed.Step Using words and expressions (P63)1. First deal with Ex.1 on page 63.2. If time permits, continue Exercises 2-4. Step V Homework1. Review the words and exp
16、ressions for this Unit.2. Preview discovering useful structures.Period 3 Grammar: InversionsStep Presentation 1. Ask the Ss to find out the sentences of Inversion in the Reading. First explain what an inversion is.“In normal word order in a sentence the subject comes before the verb. But sometimes t
17、he order of the subject and the verb is reversed, which we call Inversion.2. Ask the Ss to say the sentences, and then show the answers on the screen.Never will Zhou Yang forget his first assignment at China daily.5Only when you have seen what he or she does, can you cover a story by yourself.Only i
18、f you ask many different questions will you acquire the information you need to knowStep Explanation and SummaryThe order of the subject and the verb is reversed after the following adverbial elements:1) Adverbial expressions of negation or near negation with no, not, never, neither, seldom, scarcel
19、y, rarely, barely and hardly, etc. The same reversal of word order takes place after negative conjunctions like neither, nor, not onlybut also, no sooner thane.g. In no case can an exception be made.Never have I seen such a stupid.Not until he loses all his money will he stop gambling.Scarcely had h
20、e entered the room when he was knocked down by a stranger.Not only is he beautiful, but she is also very intelligent.I cannot attend the meeting tonight, and neither can my wife.2) Adverbial expressions with onlye.g. Only after an operation will he be able to walk again.Only one has he done such a t
21、hing.3) Adverbial expressions with soe.g. So greatly did he admire the beautiful actress he asked her to marry him.The word order is also reversed after the conjunction so.e.g. I caught a cold, and so did my wife.4) Adverbial expressions of placee.g. There stood the tallest man he had ever seen.Insi
22、de the room were a few pieces of furniture.But when the subject is a pronoun instead of a noun, the order should not be inverted.6e.g. Here he comes.Off he ran.5) Other adverbials in initial positione.g. Loud and clear rang the bell.Often did we sit together without saying a word.Step Further Explai
23、ning全部倒装1. 用于 there be 句型 There are many students in the classroom2. 用于“here (there, now, then) + 不及物动词 +主语的句型中，或以 out, in, up, down, away 等副词开头的句子里面，表示强调 Here comes the bus. There goes the bell. Now comes our turn. Out went the children.代词作主语时，主谓语序不变Here it is. In he comes.3. 当句首状语是表示地点的介词词组时，也常引起全
24、部倒装South of the city lies a big steel factory.From the valley came a frightening sound.Under the tree stands a little boy.4. 表语置于句首时，倒装结构采用“表语连系动词主语” 的结构1) 形容词 连系动词主语 Present at the meeting were Professor White, Professor Smith and manyother guests.72) 过去分词连系动词主语 Gone are the days when they could do
25、 what they liked .1) 介词连系动词主语 Among the goods are Christmas trees, flowers, candles and toys.5. 为了保持句子结构平衡，或为了强调表语或状语，或为了使上下文结构紧凑They arrived at a farmhouse, in front of which sat a small boy. Inside the pyramids are the burial rooms for the kings and queens and long passages to these rooms.部分倒装1. 用
26、于 疑问句 Do you speak English?2. 用于省略 if 的虚拟条件句Had you reviewed your lessons, you might have passed the examination.3. 用于“形容词（或名词、动词） as (though)” 引导的让步状语从句 Pretty as she is, she in not clever. Try as he would, he might fail again. Money as they had, they dont know how to spend it. 4. 用于 no sooner than
27、, hardly when 和 not until 的句型中No sooner had she gone out than the class began.Not until the teacher came did he finish his homework.5. 用于 never, hardly, seldom, scarcely, little, at no time, not only 等否定词开头的句子里 Never shall I do this again. At no time can you say “ no” to the order. Little do I dream
28、 I would see you here.6. 用于 only 开头的句子（only 位于句首，修饰副8词、介词短语或状语从句） Only in this way can you lean English well. Only when he told me did I realize what trouble he was in.7. 用于 so, nor, neither 开头的句子，表示重复的内容此句谓语应与前句谓语的时态形式一致 He has been to Beijing. So have I. Jack can not answer the question. Neither c
29、an I. 8. 在 so / such that 的结构中，若 so 置于句首，则句子部分倒装 So difficult a problem is it that I cant work it out. Such a noble person is he that people all respect him.9. 如果直接引语后注明引语是什么人所说的，主语是名词时，用倒装结构主语是代词时，一般不用倒装结构“Let go,” said the man / he said.10. 用于 某些祝愿的句子May you succeed!Step Consolidating and Applying
30、 the ruleExercise to be shown on the PPT and one student at a time to do the exercise orally.(Multiple choices, E-C translation, using inversions)Step Summary and Assignment1. Make a summary of todays task.2. Ask Ss to write a short passage, and try to use as many as inversions in the passage.Period
31、 4 Using language9Step Lead-in1. Greetings.2. “Nowadays with the development of media, lots of information can be received by people all over the world soon everyday. And people can learn about news at home and abroad by watching TV, listening to radio, surfing the Internet, reading magazines and ne
32、wspapers etc. Among these media, newspaper is one of the oldest, In China there are many kinds of newspapers. I believe all of you read some of them everyday. Am I right?”Using words above to lead in todays topic and get Ss involved in their familiar media form, newspapers.Step Reading1. Ask Ss to g
33、o over the passage (Getting the “Scoop”) quickly and find the general idea of the text. (Answer: It introduces the process of writing and printing for a newspaper article.2. Scanning: Ask Ss to read the passage again and try to answer the questions as listed on the screen.Questions:1) What is Zhou Y
34、angs first task? (Answer: His first task was to write his story)2) How many people read his article before it was ready to be processed into film negatives? Who were they? (Answer: Before it was ready to be processed into film negative, an editor from his department, the copy-editor, the native spea
35、ker, the chief editor and the new desk editor read his article.)3. Then let the Ss make full use of their imagination to complete Ex2.Step Extensive Reading (P 65)1. Ask Ss to turn to page65 and read the passage as quickly as they can to get the main idea of the passage. (Answer: The passage tells u
36、s what a primary 10source and a secondary source are and the difference between them.2. Ask Ss to read the whole text again in detail and do the True or False questions on blackboard.1. When we read about Jia Sixie in our textbook we are reading a primary source. 2. As we watch the news on TV, the p
37、erson presenting the programme in the studio is the secondary source.3. Photographers sometimes are both primary and secondary sources.4. Knowing the difference of primary and secondary sources can help us decide what is a fact and what is an opinion.5. Often facts and opinions are mixed in any repo
38、rt.Keys: FTFTTStep Summary and Assignment 1. Ask the students to interview a student of Senior Grade three and write a report about their present study and life.2. Report a thing recently happened in your neighborhood or in the local area.Period 5 Listening and SpeakingStep Lead-inAsk a group of students to tell whom they want to interview most if they areoffered a chance, and also ask them to make out the reason. Thus to lead in todaystask.T: If you were a reporter, who would you want to interview most? Why?Step ListeningTask1 Deal with the listening part on page 31.
