示范教案(Unit 4 Making the news Period 1)

Unit 4Making the news
Brief Statements Based on This Unit
This unit introduces and develops the theme of making the news.We can divide it into 7 periods.In the first period warming up, students will be presented with the occupation: newspaper reporter.They are asked to give out qualities a good news reporter needs to have.They can add more qualities if they like.Finally they will talk about unforgettable moments in their life, talking about their first experiences in a certain situation.This will prepare them for the coming period—Reading text …My first work assignment‟.The reading text deals with a dialogue between the boss of China Dairy, Hu Xin and a news reporter Zhou Yang.It will give us some information about what a new news reporter should learn to do and what makes a good reporter.In this period, the students should learn how to read a dialogue.They should try to master the reading strategy: skimming and scanning, and the most important thing is that they should read the dialogue out loud, so as to better understand it.
The third period will come to Listening and speaking.We‟ll come to page 62 and finish the listening and talking tasks in which the students will practice their listening and speaking skills.
The fourth period will deal with Language focus.We will come to the key points and practice.Then we will come to the fifth period, which is about Grammar, the students will learn what Inversion is.They will learn in what circumstances Inversion is used.Following this is the period Reading and writin g, which deals with the reading task‟getting the scoop‟, listening and writing.
The last period will come to a self-assessment, with which the students can test their abilities after answering some self-assessment questions.
This unit provides a chance for students to get an idea of the occupation—working for a newspaper.Students are to master the reading skills—skimming and scanning.They will have different practices to improve other language skills—speaking, listening, reading and writing.Also this unit requires students to compare the information given to them and choose the useful information they need, and finally finish all the tasks.
Knowledge Aims
Key words: occupation, eager, acquire, trade, case, deny, guilty, bribe, thorough, gifted, normal, seldom, employ, polish, note, approve, senior
Key phrases: concentrate on, accuse...of, so as to, defend against, go out on a story, on one‟s own, cover a story, be eager to do, take a course, be of special interest to me, have a nose for, depend on, a trick of the trade, get the wrong end of the stick, look forward to, get...ready, set to work, be accurate, smile with happiness, wait for...to do
Key sentence patterns: 1) Only when you have seen what he or she does, can you cover a story by yourself.
2) Not only am I interested in photography, but took a course at university, so it‟s actually of special interest to me.
3) Only if you ask many different questions will you acquire all the information you need to know.
4) Here comes my list of …dos‟and …don‟ts‟.
Key grammar: Inversion
Ability Aims
Be able to describe something about newspaper and newspaper reporter with words and expressions they learned before.
Be able to pre-reading the listening tasks with the knowledge they‟ve learned before.
Master the reading ability and reading strategy— scanning and skimming.
Learn to talk about newspaper and chat with their partners about the topic“newspaper and newspaper reporter”.
Be able to use the grammar point“inversion”freely.
Emotional Aims
Get the students know something about the process and different methods of making the news.Arouse the students‟ interest in the things and people around them.So that they will be able to be involved in the society after they leave school.After the learning of this unit they will know something about the occupation“making the news”.The students are supposed to be interested in the job, maybe they will have interest in becoming a news reporter in the future.
This unit will be divided into 7 periods:
Period 1Welcome to the Unit
Period 2Reading
Period 3Language Focusing
Period 4Listening and Speaking
Period 5 Grammar
Period 6Reading and Writing
Period 7Assessment
Period 1Welcome to the Unit
The General Idea of This Period
This is the first period of this unit.As a warming up, the students will come to a brainstorm of the words and expressions they‟ve learned before.Students in senior 2 will think of their future jobs, and this period will come to the topic: Occupation.The students are encouraged to talk about different jobs.Then we will talk something about types of jobs in a newspaper.Students then will come to talk about the qualities a good news reporter needs to have.Finally, they will come to talk about unforgettable moments in their lives, talking about their first day at school and so on.Students are to fully participate in the discussion and brainstorm by combining what they already know about making the news.Students are expected to get involved in the discussion, practice their spoken English and express their opinions by discussing the qualities and unforgettable moments.
Teaching Important Points
Talk about qualities a good news reporter needs to have.Open their minds and recall what they‟ve learned before.
Teaching Difficulties
Add more qualities a good news reporter needs to have.
Teaching Aids
Chalks and other necessary normal teaching tools.
Three Dimensional Teaching Aims
Ability Aims
After the warming up, the students are to recall what they have learned.Meanwhile they will improve their spoken English.
Emotional Aims
Prepare themselves for caners
Knowledge Aims
Deal with the new words—occupation
Teaching Procedure
Step 1 Warming up
T: Now you‟re in senior 2.You can think of yo ur future occupation if you are offered a chance.
Do you want to work for a newspaper?
Have you ever read an English newspaper?
How many jobs can a newspaper offer?
T: Discuss in pairs and give your opinions.
T: G ood, you‟ve done a good job.Look at the title of this unit‟ Making the news‟
What kind of news do you like to read?
S1: Sports news.
S2: Entertainment news.
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(Students are supposed to give out different examples of news)
T: How is this kind of news made?
S: The newspaper reporter will be sent to cover the event and write articles.
T: Do you want to make the news?
S: Yes.
T: Where can you make the news?
S: In the newspaper.
T: Do you want to work for a newspaper?
Ss: Yes.
T: If you‟ve got th e chance.What type of job do you want to choose and why?
S: I want to be a news reporter.Because I like traveling and can meet all kinds of people .
S: I want to a photographer.I like taking pictures and I even take a course in my school.
S: I want to be a writer.I like reading and I believe I can write beautiful and attractive articles.
T: Thank you for your wonder answer.I hope all of you can realize your dream in the future .Besides newspapers where else can we make the news?
S: The students are encouraged to give different opinions such as the Internet, the radio, the TV, wall newspaper, the display wall, etc.
T: Do you believe all the news presented in different mass media?Why or why not?
S: Yes, because newspapers are published in public, I believe all the newspaper reporters are of high education and they should be sure what they write down is true.
S: I‟m afraid I can‟t agree with you.I don‟t think we should believe all the information in newspapers or on the Internet.Because some news reporters will make up some news in order to
attract readers‟ attention.
Step 2 Pre-reading
T: As we know, in order to attract more readers or audiences, the media will try their best to make the news vivid and attractive.Some even make up stories for example paparazzi (狗仔队) in Hong Kong who will try their best to find out the secret and privacy of film stars or singers.
Ss: Yes, we agree.
T: In your opinion what makes a good news reporter whose news you will believe?
Let‟s discuss in groups of four and tick the boxes in pre-reading.You can add more qualities if you like.
1.High level of education
2.Work expressions
3.Good communication skills
4.Curious, active personality
5.Hard-working
6.Enthusiasm for the job
7.Good writing skills
8.Sensible to fashion
9.a sense of professional responsibility
T: Now, we have listed a lot of qualities that a good news reporter should have.Now let‟s talk in pairs and give your opinion.
What do you think is the most important quality that a good news reporter should have and why?
S1: I think a good news reporter should be well-educated.If the reporter is poor at writing, I don‟t think people will like the articles he/she writes.
S2: In my opinion a good reporter should have good communication skills.If not, how can he/she communicate with his/her interviewer and have a good talk.
Ss: The students are to give different points of view.There is no set answer.The purpose is to help them to give opinion.
Step 3 Speaking: My first...
T: If you‟ve got the qualities of being a news reporter, do you want to be a reporter of a certain newspaper?
S: Yes.I think working for a newspaper is interesting and challenging because I can meet different people and different things every day.
T: If you apply for the job, you‟ll have an inte rview with a person in charge.And it will be your first time to have an interview with somebody.Do you think it will be unforgettable?
Ss: Yes.
T: We have a lot of unforgettable movements in our life.For example, our first day at kindergarden, being away from home or our first day on a plane...What‟s your unforgettable movement?
Have a talk with your partner, and you can imagine the day when a boss from China Daily or a famous company interviews you.Just imagine how you would feel.
Ss: The students are e ncouraged to give all kinds of expressions with word & phrases they‟ve already learned.
The Design of the Writing on the Blackboard
Unit 4Making the news
period 1Welcome to the Unit
Record after Teaching
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Research and Activities
Look for different English newspapers, and find out different sections of a newspaper, and try to find out who is in charge.The students can work in groups and work together.
Reference for Teaching
Background Information
Newspapers
A newspaper, in a broad sense, is an unbound publication issued at regular intervals that seeks to inform, analyze, influence, and entertain.A newspaper can be published at various intervals but usually appears weekly or daily.This article deals with the contemporary daily and weekly newspaper throughout the world; it also traces the history of newspaper publishing, focusing on the newspaper in the United States.The place of the newspaper in the overall journalistic enterprise is described in journalism.
There are several newspapers in the United States that have huge circulations (such as The Wall Street Journal and USA Today with about 2 million each), and there are very small specialized newspapers (for example, country weeklies and college newspapers) with circulations of a few thousand at most.
In addition to providing a varied assortment of news, opinion, and features, U.S.newspapers—and those in other free-market nations—survive by publishing advertising.The newspaper is both a business, with a need to make a profit, and a public service.In the latter function, U.S.newspapers are under the protection of the freedom of the press clause of the 1st Amendment of the U.S.Constitution.They also receive such benefits as reduced mailing rates.
History
The earliest newspapers were perhaps the handwritten notices in ancient Rome called Acta diurna, Acta Senatus, and Acta Publica, which were posted to be read by the public.In the mid-15th century the German inventor Johann Gutenberg developed movable metal type (movable wooden type was used as early as the 6th century in the Far East); this made possible the eventual development of the newspaper.
The Germans were newspaper pioneers in Europe.Forerunners of newspapers as they are known today were published later in the 15th century in Nuremberg, Cologne, and Augsburg.In the 16th and 17th centuries, rudimentary newspapers spread throughout Germany and appeared elsewhere in Europe—Venice in 1562, the Low Countries in 1616, Britain in 1620, and France in 1631.Subsequently, the newspaper spread around the world.
U.S.newspaper history can be divided into eight periods: (1) the colonial press, (2) the
Revolutionary War press, (3) the political press, (4) the penny press, (5) New Journalism, or the press of personal editors, (6) the yellow press, (7) jazz journalism, and (8) the current period of consolidation.
The first newspaper in America was a Boston newssheet called Publick Occurrences Both Foreign and Domestic, in 1690; it appeared only once.Early publishers of note in the American colonies were printers such as John Campbell and James and Benjamin Franklin.America‟s first regularly published newspaper was the Boston News-Letter (1704).A landmark event in U.S.journalism occurred in 1735, when John Peter Zenger was tried for seditious libel but acquitted because he had printed the truth.The political tracts of John Dickinson and others helped set the stage for the American Revolution, during which both sides had newspaper supporters.
The postrevolutionary political press reflected the partisan battles between the Federalists and the Republicans.Newspapers were fostering a national consciousness and developing political awareness.The Penny Press (1830s-1860s) provided human interest at a low price for the ordinary reader.Leading examples of the Penny Press were The New York Herald of James Gordon Bennett, and the Tribune of Horace Greeley.
Following the Civil War came New Journalism, when the modern newspaper took form. Three men dominated this period of news-and-opinion journalism in which the editor‟s voice was prominent: Joseph Pulitzer, William Randolph Hearst, and E.W.Scripps.Intense competition—particularly between Pulitzer and Hearst—led in the 1890s to yellow journalism, with its emphasis on sensationalism.Sensational and entertainment-oriented newspapers also put some emphasis on muckraking and confrontation.
Jazz journalism refers to the proliferation of tabloid newspapers in the 1920s.Originally a term for a small newspaper format, tabloid came to designate a tabloid-size newspaper with a sensational approach to the news and with abundant illustrations.The first U.S.tabloid, the New York Daily News, is still a highly popular local newspaper.
Today U.S.newspapers are caught up in a consolidation trend toward group-ownership, which actually began after World War I.U.S.newspapers are increasingly falling into one of the chains or groups (for example, Gannett, Knight-Ridder, Newhouse, Scripps-Howard, Hearst, and Thomson) and, according to many critics of this trend, are losing much of their distinctiveness and independence.At the turn of the century there were only 8 chains in the United States, controlling 27daily newspapers and accou nting for 10 percent of the country‟s circulation.By 1982, 155 chains controlled about two-thirds of the daily newspapers, and by the early 1990s chains accounted for some 75 percent of circulation.In 1994 only 33 U.S.cities had more than one separately owned and competing newspaper.In spite of the decrease in competition, the American newspaper presents its readers with a wealth of news, views, and entertainment unknown in earlier times.。