高中英语必修4 Unit 11 The Media warm up 北师大版

Unit 11 The Media Warm-up教学设计Unit objectives Draw students attention to the unit objectives. Ask them which of the activities they do most often in Chinese (e.g. listening to songs/reading magazine articles) and which they do least often (e.g. writing a formal letter to a newspaper). Do they have any problems with any of these activities in Chinese? Have they done any of these activities in English? Resource used: Cassette. Background Chat show: TV programme where guests, usually celebrities, come and talk to a journalist, often about their own lives. Documentary: a serious programme with information/ opinions about a topic of current interest. The BBCs series Panorama, is one of the most prestigious documentaries on British TV. Game show: a competition or quiz in which contestants take part, e.g. Gladiators. Soap opera: popular drama series that goes on for a long time, e.g. Coronation Street about the lives of people in a street in Manchester, and Eastenders about the lives of people living in the East End of London. Quality newspaper or broadsheet is a British paper that usually has large pages and contains a lot of serious articles, e.g. about politics, business and science. Quality papers in Britain are The Times, The Independent, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph. Local papers are newspapers from cities or towns that report a lot of local news. They are usually published weekly. Tabloids are small-format newspapers containing only short, simple reports on the main news and favouring human interest stories and stories about the personal lives of famous people. Warm-up Exercise 1 Key Words TV programmes: chat show, documentary, game show, soap opera, the news The Internet: website Magazines about: cars, computers, current affairs, fashion, films, music, sport, travel Newspapers: quality newspaper, local newspaper, tabloid newspaper Students read through the Key Words and make a list of the things they can see on the page. Students use a dictionary to check the three kinds of British newspaper. Answers tabloid newspaper quality newspaper computer magazine fashion magazine TV programme (the news) websiteExercise 2 Read through the four types of programme. Students listen to the cassette and identify the programmesAnswers 1 a game show 2 the news 3 a chat show 4 a sports commentaryTapescript 1Quizmaster: Now, if you get this question right, you and Tony go through to the final. Listen carefully. What Italian word do we use to describe photographers who follow famous people? Right, Janet, heres your chance to get into the final. Contestant: Is it the paparazzi? Quizmaster: Yes, thats absolutely right, the paparazzi! Congratulations, youve made it to 2Newsreader: and the secretary of the United Nations is giving a news conference later today on the situation in the Middle East. Last night, two men and one woman were arrested by police after a bomb went off in the centre of 3Presenter: So, Alan, what made you leave television and go into films? Guest: Ah well, I guess I wanted to see what I could do. I was in the same series for three years, and, er, I just wanted to go to Hollywood, you know, that had always been my dream. Presenter: And how did you meet Spielberg? Did he 4Commentator: And theres only five minutes left in this exciting cup match, and its still Liverpool one,Manchester United one. And Michael Owen pushes the ball out to the right Exercise 3 Read through the questions with the class. Students work in pairs answering the questions. Some of the students then tell the class about their partner. Options Practice Students look back at the Key Words in Exercise 1. In pairs, students relate each Key Word to an example in their own country, e.g. A popular chat show on our television is . / There is a magazine about computers cal