nce lesson5

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★impatient adj.不耐烦的 patience（n.耐性） patient（adj.有耐心的） patiently（adv.有耐心地） impatience（n.不耐烦） impatient（adj.不耐烦的 impatiently（adv.不耐烦地）
★fire v.解雇（口语） -- He was fired from his job dismiss vt.解雇（正式） -- The manage dismissed him from his company. Sack vt.解雇, 辞退（俚语, 口语） -- If you do it wrong again you will be sacked.
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Read and then answer the question
• What was the consequence of the editor's insistence on facts and statistics? • Consequence n.结果 • Insistence n.坚持, 坚决主张
Competition2: words
• • • • • • • • 1. tell sb formally to do sth 2. to be all around sb or sth 3. dismiss sb from a job 4. in the beginning, at first 5. to seize and hold sb according to law 6. print; go to press 7. of the highest degree 8. a collection of information shown in numbers
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9. at the same time 10. get; gain 11. unwillingly 12. unable to deal calmly with sth or wait for sth
Competition 3: Phrases
• • • • • • 1. not succeed in doing 1’ 2. cause 1’ 3. get down to doing 2’ 4. also 1’ 5. take sb to jail 1’ 6. go to print 1’
Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic.
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• African n.非洲人 adj.非洲的 • Republic n.共和国, 共和政体 • Instruct vt.教, 教导, 命令, 指示, 通知 instruct sb to do sth.=tell sb formally to do sth 正式告诉某人做某 The teacher instructed him to take the examina tion. On = about 侧重强调课题专一 - a book on radio
= set about doing 决定, 打算, 着手做... He set out to make his first 1,000,000 in 5 years take sb a long time to do sth 某事花了某人很久的时间 It took me five days to write the article.
• Why was the editor dissatisfied with the first sentence? • Because it was too general. • Did he refuse to publish it? • Yes, he did. • What did the editor instruct the journalist to find out? • The exact number of steps and the height of the wall.
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Editor n.编辑 Edit vt.编辑 Edition n.编辑 Editorial adj.编辑的, 主编的 n.社论, 评论 extreme n.极端 statistics n.统计数字 journalist n.新闻记者 reporter n.(电视台)记者 correspondent n.(电台)记者, 通讯员 president n.总统
• Was the journalist able to supply this information immediately? • No, he wasn’t.
• Why was the editor getting impatient? • Because the magazine would soon go to press.
Competition1: reading comprehension
• • • • • Requirements: 1. work and discuss in your group 2. prepare questions for other groups 3. get ready for questions 4. get different points according to how you asked and whether you can answer correctly • 5. every group has three chances
• Why hadn’t the journalist faxed sooner? • Because he has been arrested and sent to prison.
New words and expression 1
• editor n. edit vt. edit magazine, edit newspaper edition n. editorial [‘edi’tɔ:riəl] adj. 编辑的, 主编的 n.社论, 评论
journalist n. reporter n.(电视台)记者 --sports journalist 体育记者 --journalism-n. 新闻学; 新闻业 --journalistic-adj. 新闻事业的, 新闻工作者 的
publish v.出版 = print(vt.), go to press(vi.) The book will be published. = The book will be printed The book will go to press.
• How many more faxes did he send the journalist? • 3. • What did the last one say? • That the journalist would be fired if he didn’t replay.
• What happened to the original article the journalist had written? • It was published. • How long was it before the journalist could fax the editor? • A week.
• The article began: 'Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace'. • which 指代the high wall
• The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall. Instructing(现在分词)进一步补充说明fax的 情况 -- he send me a letter instructing me to come back immediately
• What had a journalist been instructed to do? • write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic.
• How long ago was this?
• This year.
• extreme n.
• • • • go to extreme(s) to do… 做某事走极端 1. He went to extreme to say that the film was the best one. 2. He went to extremes to say that his girlfriend was the most beautiful in the world. go from one extreme to the other 从一个极端走向另一个极端
The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he took a long time to send them.
set out to do = decide and try to do
决定, 打算, 着手做...
Comprehension questions
• How do editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes? • By providing their readers with unimportant facts and statistics.