Unit Four Making the News

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Unit Four Making the News

• Period 1 Warming up, pre-reading reading

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The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center
on September 11, 2001
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Saddam Hussein Is Sentenced to Death
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Yao Min, the tallest flag bearer in Olympic
history, marched into the 28th Olympic Stadium
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Floods attacked Lianzhou, Guangdong
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President Hu Jintao received foreign guests
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Match the functions with the correct
explanations. economic function, social
function, political function, record-keeping
function, entertainment function A.  Journalists
are responsible for monitoring (??) the
activities of the government. B. Not everything
in life is serious. We want something
entertaining. We want sound advice. We want our
MTV. C.  Newspapers and broadcast news provide us
with topics to talk about at the office and over
coffee. D. Advertising carried in the media helps
to develop the economy and provide us with
information about new products and services.
E.  Through the records kept by the news media,
we know who is born, gets married, gets divorced,
dies, who won the game, etc
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Five forms of the news media
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How are these media different from each other?
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The characters of different media

• a broadcast medium / be broadcast alive / provide
  people with colorful moving pictures / have to
  own a TV set

• TV

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The characters of different media

• fast / varieties of information / have different
  opinions of the same subject / communicate with
  each other easily / have a computer which is
  linked to the Internet

Internet
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The characters of different media

• a broadcast medium / be broadcast live /
  listen to it whenever you like with a portable
  radio // cant have visible enjoyment

Radio
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The characters of different media

• magazine

provide people with detailed information on a
certain subject / focused on a topic /published
weekly / monthly / news comes late
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The characters of different media

• a medium for reading / report the latest news
  / can be kept for a long time / cheap to buy /
  cant express ones idea freely

newspaper
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Questions 1.Which one
do you think is the most reliable among these
different news media? 2. Which kind of news
media do you think is more convenient and
cheaper for us to read? 3. Do you know how a
newspaper is made? 4. Who are needed in producing
a newspaper?
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How is a newspaper made?
1.The __________ hold a meeting.
2.__________ interview people and write
stories.
4._____________ are quickly developed.
3.__________ take photographs.
5.Editors __________ the reports.
6.Editors write the ____________.
8.The newspapers are ____________by train
and truck.
7.the newspapers are ___________.
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journalists
2.__________ interview people and write
stories.
1.The __________ hold a meeting.
chief editor
photographs
4._____________ are quickly developed.
photographers
3.__________ take photographs.
6.Editors write the ____________.
check
5.Editors __________ the reports.
headlines
8.The newspapers are ____________by train
and truck.
7.the newspapers are ___________.
delivered
printed
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The media can often help solve problems and draw
atttention to situations where help is
needed.
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• 200 people died in an earthquake in Turkey.
• France elected a new president.
• Two men robbed a bank in Shanghai.
• China beat Brazil 2-1 in football.
• Three children from your city were killed.
• Food prices are going up.
• A house in your city burnt down. Nobody was
  injured.
• 2000 people in your city moved into new building
  today and were happy.
• A Chinese scientist has invented a new engine
  that does not pollute the air.
• There is a rumour that a large company wants to
  build a factory in your city.

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Discussion
What are the qualities a good news reporter needs
to have?

good education
good listener
Curious
hardworking
good communication skills
enthusiasm for the job
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To be a reporter
reporter
contact,
prepare
(before interview)
getto talk
(interview)
how to ask,
present
(organized)
(after interview)
make surereflect
(truthfully)
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A report
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What do you think of your first day as a reporter?
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NSEFC M5 Unit 4

• Period 2 Reading Comprehending

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• What are you going to be in the future?

jobs
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• Can you go out to cover an event by yourself?
  Why?
• If so, what do you need to take with you?
• What do you need to keep in mind when you go out
  to cover a story?
• What qualities should a good reporter have?

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Good communication skills
hard working
higher level of education
qualities

working experience
curiosity
Which do you think is the most important quality
for a good reporter? Why? I think curiosity is
the most important because
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dialogue
VS
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• read the text fast and get the main idea of the
  text
• This is about Zhou Yangs first assignment at the
  office of China Daily. And his discussion with
  his new boss, Hu Xin.

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Underline the difficult words and expressions and
guess the meanings
to present ideas fairly not to understand
properly to report on an important event this is
the story a piece of hot news clever ways known
to experts be able to tell whether is a true
story
cover a story have a nose for a story a trick
of the trade get the fact straight get the wrong
end of the stick how the story goes a real scoop
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DOS AND DONS
1, talk a lot during the interview. 2, if the
person being interviewed disagrees, we should use
small recorders to make sure that we get all our
facts straight. 3. A reporter doesnt need to
listen to the detailed facts. 4. Zhou Yang wants
to get a scoop too after he talks to his boss. 5.
Hu Xin never had a case where somebody accused
his reporters of getting the wrong end of the
stick.
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Listen to the tape and then answer the
question What a new reporter should do on the
first day?
1, the first time he will be sent with an
experienced reporter. 2. There is no need for him
to take a camera because he will have a
professional photographer with him to take photos
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Read the passage again and divide it into three
sections, each of which looks at one duty of a
reporter.
A reporters duties are 1)____________________ 2)
_______________________ 3)_______________________
to work in a team
how to get an accurate story
how to protect a story from accusations
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be able to tell if someone is telling the truth
be accurate
do research
ask questions
ask questions
note reactions
check facts
do research
use research and ask witnesses
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Homework 1, review the text and underline the
new words and find out the meanings 2. Do the
exercises of learning about language----discover
ing useful words and expressions
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NSEFC M5 Unit 4

• Period 3 Language learning

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inversion
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In came the teacher.
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Never before have I seen a film so moving.
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• ?down, up, in, out, away,here, there,now ,then,
  off ????????????????

Out rushed the children. The door opened and in
came Black. Now comes your turn.
?????????,???????????????????,??????
Out it rushed. Here you are.
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• ? ????????????????????

In the front of the room was a table, and behind
it stood a beautiful lady. Among the speakers was
Chinas then Premier Zhu Rongji.
? ?????????????????????
Dont lose heart! said mother to her son.
? ????????
Present at the meeting were Professor White and
many other guests.
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? not, never, hardly, seldom, little, scarcely,
neither, nor, in no way, at no time, in no case,
by no means, under no circumstances???????????????
???
Never shall I forget the days when we were
together. Little did I expect to get such a warm
welcome. At no time will China be the first to
use nuclear weapons.
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• ?only ???????????

Only by changing the way we live can we save the
earth.
?so/ as, neither/nor ?????
A better understanding of the environment is
necessary, as is the willingness to act.
??not onlybut also ???????, not only ???????
Not only does he write the words to the songs,
but also he composes the music.
?neithernor???????,????????
Neither will he study nor will he go to work.
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• ?no soonerthan, hardly/scarcelywhen?????,
  ???????? (??),???????

No sooner had I got home than it began to rain.
????????if??Were, should, had ???
Were I you, I would take the position in that
company.
Had he been given some information, he could have
answered the question.
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• ?as?????????????,?????, ??, ???????as?,(??????????
  ??????????)?

Child as he was, he could work out the problem.
Much as he likes English, he is not good at it.
Try as we might, we could not bring him around to
accept our view.
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• ?until ?????????,???????????, ?not until
  ????,?????

Not until we know more will we be able to improve
the situation.
?So adj./adv. ????, ?????
So easy was the task that they finished it within
half an hour.
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Using language
Getting the Scoop
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match the headlines
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A man has caught a fish the size of a small car
in Xiangshan.An earthquake happened in the
morning in June 5, 2007 in Yunnan. A new round
of women volleyball match are held in Beilun.
A Fishman Caught a Fish the Size of A Small
Car An Earthquake Hit Yunnan.2007 Women
Volleyball Match in Beilun.
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Q1 If you are readers, which news do you prefer
to read as early as possible? Q2 If you are
reporters, which news do you would like to cover
most? Why?
what is scoop?
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Activity 1
Skimming Listen to the tape
1.Whats the main idea of the text ?
It introduces the process of writing and printing
for a newspaper article.
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Activity 2fast reading
Read the text and answer these questions 1.
What was Zhou Yangs first task? 2. How many
people read his article before it was ready to be
processed into the film negative ? Who were they ?
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1 What does scoop mean ? 2 What was Zhou
Yangs first task?
It means an important story which your newspaper
gets ahead of all the other newspapers.
His first task was to write a famous film star
story.
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3 How many people read his article before it was
ready to be processed into the film negative ?
Who were they?
Five people.They are an editor from his
department,the copy-editor,the native speaker,the
chief editor and the news desk editor.
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Detailed Reading

• how many people will read the articles before it
  was ready to be processed
• work out the writing and printing process for an
  article

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Activity 3interview
A fishman tells you he/she has caught a fish the
size of a small car. But not all people in Ningbo
believe what he said. But there were some
eyewitnesses on the spot.
a reporter/a photographer/ an eyewitness/ the
fish man.
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interviewing
Q1 When and where may the fish appear? Q2 What
kind of action did you take when you saw the big
fish? Q3 Who were there when you caught the big
fish? Q4 How could you catch it? Q5 Why did the
big fish appear in the coastline nearby?
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Share the information .
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Appreciate the news story
1.What is the headline? 2.find out 6W.
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Appreciate the news story
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Write the news story according to the information
involved in the interview.
A fisherman tells you he/she has caught a fish
the size of a small car. But not all people in
Ningbo believe what he said. But there were some
eyewitnesses on the spot.