Teaching Plan

Teacher: Chang Tianyue
Topic: Unit 2 News media
Teaching goals:
1.Talk about news and the media.
2.Practise expressing opinions.
3.Learn about the Past Participle.
4.Write a comparison paragraph.
Teaching demands:
1.vocabulary in this unit
(1)words
media, reliable, fire, face, difficulty, elect, injure, headline, editor, informed, relate, talented, switch, present, reflect, unique, spiritual, seldom, AIDS, addict, social, suffer, ignore, tolerate, affair, retire, awful, telegram, housewife, crowded, shopper, complete, bore, attitude, disappoint, responsible, citizen, polluter, arm, update
(2)phrases
go up, for once, relate to, be addicted to, even if, draw attention to, on all sides, change one’s mind, current affairs, look up to, fall in love with
2.Functional sentences
(1)Talk about news and media.
(2)Practise expressing opinion, using the following sentence structures.
(3)Grammar
Learn about the Past Participle as Attributive and Predicative.
Teaching Aids:
Multimedia, tape recorder,
Teaching arrangement:
Period 1: Warming up, Listening and Speaking
Period 2&3: Reading
Period 4: Word study and Grammar
Period 5: Integrating skills
Period 6&7: Test and Evaluation

Teaching procedures:
Warming up
1. Collect the names of as many famous newspapers and magazines as you know. Show some of them and ask:
How do you know what happen around us or even what happen abroad?
2. Do the brainstorm and learn some familiar words.


Questions: Who collects the information?
How many kinds of media?
What are there any differences among the five major media?
3. Let the students discuss the questions on page 9 to help the students to be further familiar with the topic.

Listening
1. Help the students go through the listening material and make them clear about their tasks.
(Tell the Students to draw their attention to the intonation and tone used in two parts.)
2. Play the tape and do the listening Ex.1 on page 10.
3. Play the tape again do the listening Ex.2,3,4 on page 10.
4. Discuss the answers by group work, then check the answers.
5. Finish the listening tasks in the workbook.

Speaking
1. Begin the work with the following questions:
(1)Of the ten events, which one are you going to choose?
I’d like to choose … Or I’d rather prefer…
(2) Why do you choose that? Are there any reasons for your choice?
Events
Reasons








Allow them 10 minutes or more to do group work.
2. Give evaluation to each group.

Pre-reading
1. Look at the pictures on Page 11, ask two questions and predict about the text.
Questions: (1) Where are people in the first picture?
(2) What are they doing?
2. Allow the students a few minutes to discuss the questions listed on the textbook.

Reading
1. Scan the passage to match the following:

Decide what to write about Paragraph 1
Uses of news media Questions1 and answers
General description of newspapers Question2 and answers
Journalists’ favorite articles Question3 and answers
Topics they are interested in Last paragraph
2. Careful reading:
(1) General description of newspaper (Paragraph 1)
Questions: (a) What is the topic of the first paragraph?
(b) What are the supporting sentences?
(2) Decide what to write about (Question 1)
Editor’s job (by Zhu Lin)
Reporter’s job (by Chen Ying)
1.


2.
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2.
(3) Their favorite stories (Questions 2)
Chen Ying’s:
Her difficulties;
Reasons:

Zhu
生词表: