Period one: Listening

Teaching Aim:

To help the Ss improve their listening ability of getting information from the listening material;

To help the Ss learn to infer something from the listening material;

To help the Ss understand the whole Listening material.

Teaching Aid: multi-media

Teaching procedure:

PartⅠWarming up

StepⅠAsk the Ss to list some news media they know in their daily life and ask them to talk about the pictures on page9.

StepⅡ Ask the Ss to discuss the following questions:

1) Which of the news media above do you usually use? Why?

2) Which of the news media is the most reliable (do you believe most)? Why?

3) How are the media above different from each other?

4) How do you know what you hear, see or read is true?

5) What words will you need to talk about the news media?

StepⅢ Ask the Ss to exchange their idea with their partners.

PartⅡListening

Pre-listening:

StepⅠ Help the Ss to understand some of the new words in the listening material.

1) Fire: Tom was always late for work. His boss got very angry and fired him. So Tom lost his job.

2) Generous: Li Ming is a very rich and famous. He always donates his money to the poor children and help them to set up schools. That is to say, he is very generous.

3) Nosy: If you ask more about somebody’s privacy, you will be very nosy.

StepⅡ Ask the Ss to read the instructions on Page10.

While-listening

Step Ⅰ First listening

Ask the Ss to look at the pictures and guess what happens in the interview and dialogue, and then the Ss will tick out the information they hear in the tape.

Step Ⅱ Second listening

Ask the Ss to listen to the tape once more and fill in the blanks given by the teacher. (The teacher will pick out the key information from the listening material.)

The teacher will give one question for the Ss to answer:

Why is Mr. Gray no longer working for the company?

Step Ⅲ Third listening

The teacher will ask the Ss to find out the difference about what happened in the listening material. (The teacher will give them a form to fill in.)

Post-reading

Ask the Ss to read the listening material and discuss question 4 on page10. After the Ss discuss the questions with their partners, the teacher will ask the Ss to find out the sentences they use when they show their opinions. (Group Work)

Period 2: Speaking

Teaching Aim:

To help the Ss learn how to show their expressions on how to make choices.

Teaching Aids: a tape recorder, multi-media

Teaching procedure:

Pre-Speaking

The teacher will have a review about how to show one’s opinion they learned on the listening period and help the Ss know something about newspaper (pictures):

1) What newspapers do you often read?

2) What is your favorite newspaper?

3) What are there in your favorite newspaper?

4) Do you know how a newspaper is made?

While-speaking

StepⅠAsk the Ss to read the material ( instructions and contents) on page 10 individually and try to find out five of the items they are going to report.

StepⅡ Ask the Ss to exchange their choices in pairs. Before they express their opinions, ask them to read the useful expressions (page11) first.

StepⅢ Ask the Ss to exchange their opinions in pairs. The teacher can list some adjectives to describe the new, for example: exciting, attractive, surprising, shocking, important and so on.

Sample:

I would rather choose China beat Brazil 2-1 in football. It must be a piece of exciting news for our Chinese, since Brazil is stronger than our Chinese in playing football. Our readers may want to know more about the progress that China has made during these years.

Post-speaking

Task: Suppose you are an editor of your school’s newspaper and you have got a lot of news from your school’s reporters. Now it is your turn to decide which news you are going to use. (Group Work)

Period 3 Reading

Teaching content: Behind the headlines

Teaching Aims:

To help the Ss understand the text completely;

To help the Ss improve their reading ability of getting information, making conclusions and getting the main idea;

To help the Ss know more about medias.

Teaching Aids: multi-media, a tape recorder

Teaching Procedure:

Pre-reading

Step Ⅰlead-in

The teacher will give the Ss several questions to answer:

1). Do you read newspapers every day?

2). Why do you read newspapers?

3). How and where do the journalists get information for the articles?

StepⅡ Ask the Ss to read the pre-reading questions and discuss them in groups.

StepⅢ Ask some of them to express their opinions.

While-reading

StepⅠFast reading

Ask the Ss to read the text quickly for the structure and main idea of the text:

1) The structure of the text is ________.

A. an article

B. an interview

C. a report

2) The main idea of the text is about _______.

A. Newspaper helps us understand the world.

B. Why people read newspapers.

C. The journalists’ work and how the news we read is made.

StepⅡ Second reading for detailed information

A: Read for difficult words and sentences in the text and then do the matching exercise:

Ex1: 1. switch A. stand

2. reflect B. present

3. adapt to C. change

4. tolerate D. overlook

5. ignore E. adjust, fit

Ex2: Dealing with difficult sentences:

1). The two reporters agreed to switch roles for one and be the interviewee rather than the interviewer on order to let us know about their work and how the news we read is made. (Para1)

Q1: Are the two reporters still interviewers this time?

Q2: Why they are interviewees this time?

Q3: How will you understand the word “switch” in the sentence? Can you use another word that has a similar meaning with “switch”

2). After the interview, the reporter must present the material in an organized way and make sure that the article reflects events and opinions truthfully. (Papa4)

A: The teacher will ask the Ss to change the sentence into simple sentences.

Sentence1: After the interview, the reporter must present the material in an organized way.

Sentence2: After the interview, the reporter must make sure that the article reflects events and opinions truthfully.

B. How do you understand the word “reflect” in the sentence?

C. Translate the sentence.

3). The result is a better understanding of the world on all sides, leading to a future world where all countries are respected and different views and opinions are tolerated. (Last Para)

1. What are the aims of TV program and other medias?

2. Translate the sentence into Chinese.

B: Read aloud.

Step Ⅲ Read the text carefully and do the questions and answers in pairs :

1) Who work for the newspaper?

2) What does an editor do?

3) What do reporters do?

4) What is the function of a feature story or of an article?

5) What does the media do?

Step Ⅳ Read after the tape.

Post-reading

StepⅠ Ask the Ss to do ex1-3 on page 12 in groups. (Group discussion)

StepⅡ Task:

Suppose you are reporter, you want to interview one or more famous football players. You want to ask them something about the Euro-cup. Prepare some questions and ask their opinions, for example:

1) Should Greek be the champion?

2) What do you think of your own performance?

3) What do you think of British’s performance?

4) Who do you think is the best player in this Euro-cup?

5) …