Unit4Makingthenews公開課

1、Unit 4 Making the newsPeriod 1 Warming up and Reading Class5,Grade2 Teacher: Wu Wenqiong . Teaching aims 1). Target language: occupation, do research, on ones own, cover, concentrate on, acquire, accuseof, so as to, scoop To understand two of the following sentences.1) Not till you are more experien

2、ced! 2) Youll find your colleagues very eager to assist you and if you are interested in photography, it may be possible for you to concentrate on that later on. 3) Not only am I interested in photography, but I took a course at university, so its actually of special interest to me. 4) Only if you a

3、sk many questions will you acquire all the information you need to know. 5) We say a good reporter must have a “nose” for a story.6) This is a trick of the trade. 7) Have you ever had a case where somebody accused your reporters of getting the wrong end of the stick?8) Perhaps I too will get a scoop

4、! 2). Ability goal: 1) Enable the students to talk about qualities needed to be a good reporter and how to conduct a good interview 2) Train the students reading ability (skimming, detailed reading). . Teaching important points: Help the students learn about the qualities needed to be a good reporte

5、r, how to get an accurate story and how to protect a story form accusation. Help the students to understand the passage better. Learn and master the important words and phrases in this period. . Teaching difficult points: How to help the students learn about the qualities needed to be a good reporte

6、r, how to get an accurate story and how to protect a story form accusation. How to help the students improve their reading ability and understand the passage better. How to master the important language points in this passage. . Teaching methods: Cooperative learning, task-based learning, fast-readi

7、ng, detailed reading, discussing. Teaching procedures:Step1 Lead in (1min)Ss are going to answer one question: Where can we get the information?Show all the Ss the photos of the means of media today. Then we will have our topic today: making the news.Step2 Warming up(5mins) Lead Ss to think about wh

8、at kind of occupation they want to have in the future. And end up with the topic of being a reporter.Ss think about what kind of jobs are there in an English newspaper. They will match the proper jobs to what they involve.Ex1. journalist editor photographer designer printera. taking photographs of i

9、mportant people or eventsb. printing the newspaperc. finding out news and telling people about it in newspaper or on TV/radiod. making sure the writing is clear, concise and accurate; checking factse. laying out the articles and photographsStep3 Reading We are going to have three sections in this pa

10、rt. It will help Ss improve their ability of reading through pre-reading, while-reading and post-reading and understand the whole passage by some exercises.Pre-reading(3mins) Ss discuss in groups and share with us about their ideas, at the same time, they can get familiar with the adjectives of desc

11、ribing persons. If you want to be a reporter, do you think what qualities a good news reporter needs to have? ( Group work )Ex2.While-reading Ss will understand the reading by three tasks that can help them improve their reading skills. Fast reading(3mins) Task1 Ex3.1. Where did the conversation hap

12、pen?2. Who were talking?3. What was Zhou Yangs first job at China Daily?Detailed reading(12mins) Task2 Ex4. True or False 1. Zhou can go out on a story immediately. ( )2. Zhou neednt take a camera with himself. ( )3. The footballer admitted he took the money. ( )Task3 Ex5.1. What mistakes must be av

13、oided? 2. What does a journalist need to remember when going to cover a story? 1）He needs to be .2) A good reporter must have a “ ” for a story. 3) He has to listen for the facts. 4) If necessary, he can prepare a to make sure that he gets the facts straight. 3. The purpose of writing the passage A.

14、 It shows us the necessary skills to become a good journalist. B. It wants to show many graduates want to be journalists.Post-reading(3mins) In this section, Ss try to make an interview with their partners so that they can deepen their learning of being a reporter and also review some useful phrases

15、. Try to use the most of the useful phrases: cover a story: to go and interview somebody about an incident a trick of the trade: something that helps you do the job in a professional way get all the facts straight: to make sure that the story is accurate have a “nose” for a story: to be able to “sme

16、ll” when somebody is trying to hide a good story that may reflect badly on him/ herselfbe eager to do: can not wait to do sth. a real “scoop”: a person who know how to cover a story very well concentrate on: focus on get the wrong end of the stick: get the wrong information accuse of: charge sb so a

17、s to: just for sth. Make an interview on working experience for a newspaper. (Pair work)Step4. Consolidation(10mins) Ss can consolidate the understanding of the reading and some usage of phrases through the following exercises. Ex6. A. Focus on language Which sentences in the text is the closest in

18、meaning to the following? 1. At the same time, you must think of the following question according to the persons description. 2. You can get information that you want to know by asking many questions.B. Translation: 1Youll find your colleagues very eager to assist you, so you may be able to concentrate on photography later if youre interested. 2So we arranged an interview between the footballer and the man supposed to bribe him. C. Summary Fill in the blanks To the reporters, its _for them to take a cam