人教版高中英语必修五Book5Unit4ReadingTasks

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Unit 4 Making the news
Pre-reading activities
Task I. Discuss in your group what kinds of persons are needed to make a newspaper. For example: reporters, editors, etc.
Task II. What words can be used to describe your feelings if you go to work for the first time?
Task III. List the questions that you might ask the headmaster if you are offered a job as a teacher in a middle school.
While-reading activities
Task I. Read the text and match Zhou Yang’s questions with Hu Xin’s answers.
Zhou Yang’s questions Hu Xin’s answers
1. Can I go out on a story immediately? A. Ask as many questions as you can and try to
make the story complete.
2. Do I need to take a camera? B. You can use a recorder to help you. It will also
help you to get evidence.
3. What should I remember when
I go out to cover a story? C. You need to listen and prepare the next question at the same time.
4. What should I keep in mind? D. No. You will be an assistant for sometime
before you become an independent journalist. 5. Why is listening so important? E. Follow the rule of dos and don’ts.
6. How can I listen carefully while taking notes? F. No. You will have a colleague, who will take photos for you.
Task II. Read the last but two paragraphs about the footballer and fill in the blanks.
Task III. Here are some words concerned with the news report from the text. Please match these words with their definitions.
1. amateur a. a person whose job is to collect and write news stories for newspapers,
magazines, radio or television
2. deadline b. a person who helps or supports someone, usually in their job.
3. journalist c. connected with a job that needs special training or skill, especially one
that needs a high level of education
4. assistant d. a person who takes part in a sport or other activity for enjoyment or
interest, not as a job
5. professional e. a date or time by which a person has to do or complete something
Post-reading activities
Task I. Below is a summary of the text with some words missing. Choose the words from the box and make the summary complete. Then try to retell the story to your partners. money, recorder, true, Hu Xin, truth, journalist, deadline
Zhou Yang will never forget a conversation he had with his new boss, 1. ________, when he went to work for a popular English newspaper. Hu Xin told him the following things:
a. Before working on his own stories, he would have to help an experienced 2. ________
until he learned what to do.
b. A good journalist asks a lot of questions and knows when someone is telling the 3.
________.
c. He should never miss a story’s 4. ________, always be polite and listen carefully.
d. He should use a(n) 5. ________ if the person agrees as it is difficult to take notes while
listening.
e. A footballer accused of taking 6. ________ to let the other side win a match tried to stop
the newspaper from publishing the story. The newspaper published the story anyway and what was written later turned out to be 7. ________.
In the end, Zhou Yang was looking forward to writing a good story of his own. (By Ray Cama)
Task II. Role-play the text with your partners with the help of Task I in While-reading activities. Keep your words as simple as you can.
Task III. Retell the story of the footballer to your partners, with the help of Task II in While-reading activities.
Task IV. Suppose you are Zhou Yang. Rewrite the text in a form of a diary, writing down what you have learned from Hu Xin about your First assignment. You can refer to Task I in While-reading activities.
Keys:
Pre-reading activities
Task I.略
Task II. 略
Task III. 略
While-reading activities
Task I. 1-D；2-F；3-A；4-E；5-C；6-B
Task II. 1. money 2. interview 3. body language 4. guilty 5. publishing Task III. 1-d；2-e；3-a；4-b；5-c
Post-reading activities
Task I. 1. Hu Xin 2. journalist 3. truth 4. deadline 5. recorder 6. money 7. true
Task II. 略
Task III.略
Task IV.略。