The first period Warming Up and Speaking

1、The First Period (Warming Up and Speaking)Teaching Aims:1. Learn and master the following words and phrases: media, headline, article, reliable, fire, elect, go up, burn down2. Practise expressing opinion using the following: What do you think of? Whats your opinion? Why do you choose? Perhaps is mo

2、re important. I would rather choose I dont think we should choose Our readers want to know about3. Talk about news and media.4. Train the students speaking abilities.Teaching Important Points:1. Master the useful words and expressions appearing in this period.2. Train the students speaking abilities

3、 by talking about news and media.Teaching Difficult Points:How to help students finish the task of speaking.Teaching Methods:Individual and pair work to make students finish each task.Teaching Aids:1. a projector and a piece of slide2. several English newspapers and magazines3. the blackboardTeachin

4、g Procedures:StepI. GreetingT: Good morning, boys and girls!StepII: Lead-in (10 minutes)T: Lets begin our class, Unit 2-News Media. Do you know the meaning of news media in Chinese?S: 新聞媒體T: Thats right. Now, please look at the pictures on page 9. There are five pictures and these pictures show us f

5、ive kinds of news media. Each picture shows us a kind of news media. Do you know what they are?S: They are internet, radio, TV programme, magazine and newspaper.T: Quite right! We call all of them news media. Now, lets talk about radio first. I know some of you listen to radio everyday, right?S: Yes

6、.T: So do I. I listen to radio everyday. I can listen to any programmes Id like to hear. I often listen to music, news, stories and so on. If I have time I will read newspapers and magazines. I enjoy them very much because I can get a lot of information from them. What about you? Do you often read n

7、ewspapers or magazines?S1: Yes.T: Which kind of newspaper do you often read? Do you like the news about sports?S1: Yes, and I like the news about sports stars.T: What about you?S2: I like the news about music, film stars.T: Ok. Maybe all of you like the stories about love? You like the love stories.

8、S: Yes.T: Have you ever read any English newspapers or magazines? S: No, we havent.T: Oh, Im sorry to hear that, but I can introduce several newspapers and magazines to you.(take out the newspapers and magazines) Look at this. This is English Salon.S: English Salon.T: Yes. We can say 英語(yǔ)沙龍in Chinese.

9、 And whats this?S: English language learning.T: Yes. It is 英語(yǔ)學(xué)習(xí). Now, this one. It is 大學(xué)英語(yǔ)S: College English, 大學(xué)英語(yǔ).T: You are right. When I read English newspapers, I often read China Daily(中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào))， 21st Century（21世紀(jì)報(bào)）（show them to the Ss）. Ok, lets look at this newspaper (21st Century). We know newsp

10、apers have many pages and tell us a lot of information, such as news, business, science, people, entertainment and so on. Right?S: Yes.T: Now, look at this page. This page is called front page(頭版)S: Front page.T: And these news are put in the front page, so they are called-?S: 頭版新聞。T: Yes, we can ca

11、ll them front-page news. Are you clear?S: Yes.T: Now, please look at these words”Aida coming to Beijing”, we call this line -headline.S: Headline(標(biāo)題) T: Under the headline, this is article(文章).S: ArticleT: And this picture, this shows us advertisement(廣告). (Take the 21st Century away)T: We know news

12、papers are always very cheap because they can make money by selling advertisement. For example, WenZhou Daily only costs half a Yuan and it has a lot of advertisement. Right?S: Yes.StepIII. Warming up (20 minutes) T: Now, lets talk about the questions in the slide. Question 1. How are the media diff

13、erent from each other? 2. Do you know how a newspaper is made? 3. Do you believe everything you read in newspaper or watch on TV. Are all of them reliable? 4. Can you think of the words we need to talk about news and media?T: The first question, how are the media different from each other? Maybe thi

14、s question is a little difficult for you, so Ill help you. Lets talk about newspaper and magazine first. We know newspaper is often published everyday, it is daily; While magazine is often published every month or half a month. Do you think so?S: Yes.T: This is a difference between newspaper and mag

15、azine. Can you think of any other differences between them?S: Newspaper is much cheaper than magazine, it reports the latest news when they happen. Magazine always talks about a topic, such as business, family life, students life.T: Very good. Now, think about the other news media. What about the ot

16、her news media?S: TV: has pictures, easy to understand Radio: no pictures, can only be heard Internet: visited by each personT: Very good. The next question,” Do you know how a newspaper is made?” Before you talk about this question, lets think about another question. We know newspapers have editors

17、 and reporters. Their jobs are very important in making a newspaper. But do you know what the editors job is? And whats the reporters job?S: editor: Decide which reporter to send Decide where to send the reporter Give advice to reporter Keep the newspaper balanced and interesting to readers reporter

18、: Contact the people to be interviewed Prepare questions Interview them and ask right questions Write the articleT: Do you believe everything you read in newspaper or watch on TV? S: No.T: Of course, we cant believe everything we d in newspaper or watch on TV. Lets take advertisements for example, m

19、any people may be very disappointed when they use the product advertised on TV. S: Yes. T: Now, we have talked a lot about news and media. Can you think of the words we need to talk about news and media? S: newspaper, magazine, radio, reporter, editor, headline, article, front pageStepIV Speaking(13

20、 minutes) T: Now, look at the Speaking part. “ You are the editors of a newspaper. Below is a list of ten news that happened today. You may only report five of them. Decide which events you are going to put in you newspaper and give reasons for you choices”. Now, lets read the ten news. (T translate

21、s the ten news and explains some words and phrases to Ss) elect 選舉 go up 上升，上漲 burn down 燒毀，燒成平地 rumour 謠言 T: When you make up sentences, youd better use the useful expressions on the table. Lets look at them together. (T explain them to Ss and make up sentences using them ) If I am the editor and I want to report the news” China beat Brazil 2-1 in football”. I will say “ I would rather choose this news because it is an exciting news, our readers maybe very happy and proud to know this news.” You can make up sentences like this. Now, work in pairs, one asks and th