英语报刊阅读教程教案

A COURSE IN ENGLISH

NEWSPAPER&MAGAZINE READING

The title of teaching:PART 1 STYLES OF NEWS

Chapter 1 Headline

Chapter 2 Syntactic Features

Period of the teaching: 2 classes

Objectives:

1.Grammatical features of headline.

2.Differences in Chinese headlines and English headlines.

3.'ABC' principles in news writing .

Key / difficult points:

1.Functions & Categorization of Headlines

2.Characteristics of headlines

Methods of teaching:

1.Interactive teaching method

municative Teaching method

Teaching procedures:

1.lead-in introduction:

The content of news writing:

➢Headline ( sub-headline)

➢Lead/introduction(5W, 1H)

➢Body(background, main issue)

➢Conclusion

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➢To predict

'ABC' principles

➢Accuracy

➢Brevity

➢Clarity

Functions of Headlines

➢Summarizing the story

➢Arousing the rea der’s interest

➢Beautifying the newspaper page

➢Indicating how much importance each news item has Categorization of Headlines

➢one-column headline---streamer/banner通栏大标题

➢one-deck headline ---four-deck headline 一层题/二层题/…/四层题

➢crossline单行题

➢flush-left headline靠左齐头形

➢drop-line or indented head阶梯下坠形

➢inverted pyramid form倒金字塔形

➢centered headline, jump head转页标题

2.Features of headlines

❖Grammatical features

❖Lexical features

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❖Rhetorical features

2.1 Grammatical features---- Omission

✓Omission of articles / pronoun/ “and” / auxiliary verbs

China launches first ICBM into pacific Boys on cliff rescued Mother, daughter share Fulbright year

Witty, Inventive furniture dominates Milan Exposition

Forecast of Mexican quake accurate, but ignored

Tourist arrested for espionage charges

2.2 Grammatical features---- Tense

✓Simple present is the most commonly used tense in headline to give the reader a sense of “timeliness” by giving a vivid,

eyewitness account.

US and Egypt hold air exercises

Women’s soccer calls for support

But:

Unemployment in U.K. increased in October

✓Future is always indicated by infinitive “to + do”, or in simple present tense.

Russia to hold Polish border manoeuvres

Shanxi to invest large sums for tourism

2 EC officials to visit U.S. to pave way for trade talks

✓“ V-ing” form is often used to indicate an ongoing action.

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Radio ,TV coverage widening

Deposits, loans rising in HK

2.3 Grammatical features---- Predicate

✓Adjective as predicate

US carmaker ready to cut output

Buenos Aires “close” to deal on f resh IMF loan

EU and China closer to deal on Beijing’s WTO entry

✓Participial phrase as predicate

Identities of Hijack suspects released

U.S. Attacked: Hijacked jets destroy twin towers and hit pentagon in day of terror

Fed expected to make a half-point cut in rates

US weather forecasters caught out by storm

Top Pakistan judge dismissed after refusing to take oath

✓Infinitive as predicate

Germany to lift ban on transport of N-waste

China to continue fiscal program to aid economy

Japan to help elderly jobless

2.4 Grammatical features ---- Punctuation

Eleven dead, 200 injured in concert blast

Protests sweep Israel, Palestine

Economy grows slowly as unemployment, inflation rise --- economist Kissinger reasserts: Sino-US ties crucial

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