Unit 4 Making the news教案

Unit 4 Making the news

Period 1 Warming up and reading

Teaching aims:

知识目标

1. Let students talk about jobs in newspapers and what is needed to work in a newspaper office.

2.Have students read the passage and know about Zhou Yang's first work assignment.

能力目标

Develop students' reading ability and let them learn different reading skills.

情感目标

Stimulate students' interest in newspaper and the basic procedure of making the news.

Teaching important points:

1.Let students talk about jobs in newspapers and what is needed to work in a newspaper office.

2.Have students learn different reading skills.

Teaching difficult points:

1.Develop students reading ability.

2.Let students talk about what is needed to work in a newspaper office. Teaching methods:

Task-based teaching and learning & Discussion.

Teaching Procedures

Step 1 Lead in

Show students some pictures and talk about where we can get the news from all over the world?

News: five forms of the news media.

Step 2 warming up

1.Do you know how to make the news?

Step 3 Pre-reading

Get the students to discuss the importance of qualities a good news reporter needs to have. And why?

Qualities:Good communication skills,.Enthusiasm for the job,higher level of education,hard working,Curious, active personality...

enthusiasm = a strong feeling of interest and enjoyment about something and and eagerness to be involved in it.

be full of enthusiasm about…热衷于……

Step 4 Reading

1.Skimming

What’s the main idea of this passage?

This passage is about _______’s first _______ at the office of China Daily. And his ________ with his new _____, Hu Xin.

Now please listen to the passage and underline the questions which Zhou Yang asks. Try to

look at the way the questions develop.

⑴Can I go out on a story immediately?

⑵What do I need to take with me?

⑶What do I need to remember when I go out to cover a story?

⑷What should I keep in mind?

⑸Why is listening so important?

⑹But how Can I listen carefully while taking notes?

⑺Have you ever had a case where someone accused your journalists of getting the wrong end of the stick?

2. Scanning

True or False questions.(TFTFFF)

1, Don’t go out on a story on your own at first.

2, Take a notebook, a pen as well as a camera.

3, Be curious and ask different questions to get all the information

4, Talk too much during the interview.

5, A reporter doesn’t need to listen to the detailed facts.

6, We can always use small recorders to make sure that we get all our facts straight.

3 . Careful reading

Part 1

1.When could Zhou Yang cover a story by himself?

Not till he is more experienced.

2. Why is there no need for him to carry a camera?

Because he will have a professional photographer with him to take photographs. Part 2:

What does Zhou Yang need to remember when he goes out to cover a story?