英语高中必修五Unit 4 Making the news part1教案

1、.Unit 4 Making the news 教案1MY FIRST WORK ASSIGNMENT“Unforgettable, says new reporter IntroductionIn this period, after the warming up, students will first be guided to go over expressions for news making. Then they shall be reading MY FIRST WORK ASSIGNMENT “Unforgettable,says new reporter. They shal

2、l go through the following procedures while reading: reading aloud to the recording, reading and underlining, reading to underline the questions, reading and transforming information open-ended question, reading and understanding difficult sentences, reading to decide on the type of writing and summ

3、ary of the text and retelling the text in your own words. The period will be closed down by students taking a quiz. ObjectivesTo help students learn to make appointmentsTo help students learn to read a dialogue about being a news reporter To help students better understand “making newsTo help studen

4、ts learn use some important words and expressionsTo help students identify examples of “Inversion in the textFocusWords: photograph, concentrate, require, accuse, bribe, deny, defend, employ, polish, approveExpressions: concentrate on, accuseof, so as to, defend againstPatterns: Only when you have s

5、een what he or she does, can you cover a story by yourself.So its actually of special interest to me. Here comes my list of “dos and “dontsThis is a trick of the trade.This is how the story goes.Later we were proved right. AidsMultimedia facilities, tape-recorder, photos, diagrams Procedures1. Warmi

6、ng up Warming up by discussingThink like a reporterHi, everyone. Today we will learn something about making the news. Suppose you work for China Daily, what types of jobs do you choose? What does it involve? Now in pairs discuss them. Give reasons for your choice. Types of jobs: What it involvesRepo

7、rterInterviews people or finds out about events from onlookersPhotographerTakes photographs of important people or eventsEditor Makes sure the writing is clear, concise and accurate; checks factsDesignerLays out the article and photographsPrinter Prints the newspaperWell done! By the way, have you e

8、ver heard “journalist? Is there any difference between journalist and reporter? Ordinarily speaking, a reporter is a person whose job is to discover information about news events and describe them for a newspaper or magazine or for radio or television. And a journalist is a person who writes news st

9、ories or articles for a newspaper or magazine or broadcasts them on radio or television. Maybe in Chinese we can understand it better: reporter; journalistreporternews reporter“新闻记者，特指外出采访的记者。 journalist“记者泛指新闻工作者，如报纸的编辑、采访记者、摄影记者都可以叫journalist。Now lets do with the pre-reading questions. Warming up

10、by taking about working for a newspaperCommon sense: Yes? No? Your opinions1. Reporter and journalist mean the same.2. Only the chief editor decides on the content of the newspapers.3. A good reporter is usually well educated.4. Only the content of the newspaper is decided on the day, it wont be cha

11、nged. 5. In covering an event, sped is playing an important role in making the news. Warming up by talking about the term news itselfThese days weve got so much topical news: American Election, Yasser Arafats death. You know, theres an old saying in English-No news is good news. Does that mean if we

12、 do hear the news its supposed to be bad? Everybody has his or her own opinion. However, I dont want to comment on any news here. Id like to talk about the term news itself. So far how many expressions have you known about the news? You might mention breaking news, Daily news . Not enough! Come on.

13、2. Pre-reading by going over expressions for news making#;breaking news 突发的消息wonderful news 极好的消息welcome news 可喜的消息topical news 时事新闻thrilling news 令人兴奋的消息television news 电视新闻tearful news 悲哀的消息surprising news 惊人的消息spread news 传播消息sore news 使人痛心的消息news agency 通讯社news analyst 评论员news bulletin 公告news co

14、mmunication 新闻播送news conference 记者招待会news editing 新闻编辑news film 新闻片news flash 最后新闻 简短的新闻报道news hen 美女新闻记者news network 新闻网news report 新闻报道news stall newsstand 报亭news window 新闻图片栏 newsboy 报童，送报人newscaster 新闻播报员news letter时事通讯newspaper 报纸newspaper campaign新闻战newsreader 新闻播送员newsreel新闻影片newswire 新闻专线new

15、sworthy 有新闻价值的 3. Reading Reading aloud to the recordingNow please listen and read aloud to the recording of the text MY FIRST WORK ASSIGNMENT “Unforgettable, says news reporter. Pay attention to the pronunciation of each word and the pauses within each sentence. I will play the tape twice and you s

16、hall read aloud twice, too. Reading and underliningNext you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them to your notebook after class and write a short passage, making use of them as homework.Collocations from MY FIRST WORK ASSIGNMENTcover a story, n

17、o need for, be eager to do, concentrate onbe of special, have a nose for, find out, too much, a trick of the trade, get all your facts straight, accuse sb. of sth, get the wrong end of the stick Reading to underline the questions Skim the text and underline the questions that Zhou Yang asks. Notice

18、the way the questions develop.Can I go out on a story immediately?What do I need to take with me?What do I need to remember when I go out to cover a story?What mistakes must I avoid?Why is listening so important?How can I listen to answers if I have to write down what he or she is saying?Have you ev

19、er had a case where somebody accused your reporters of getting the wrong end of the stick? Reading and transforming information open-ended questionDiscussion：Do you think Zhou Yangs discussion with Hu Xin will strongly influence his life as a reporter? In what way? Reading and understanding difficul

20、t sentencesAs you have read the text times, you can surely tell which sentences are difficult to understand. Now put your questions concerning the difficult points to me. Reading to decide on the type of writing and summary of the textThis is a conversation between Zhou Yang and his boss Hu Xin. Hu Xin gives Zhou Yang some advice on what to do at the beginning as