Teaching Plan of Unit 2
News media

Goals/Teaching aims and demands:
a. Achieve language skills and related knowledge about the topic of news and the media.
b. Practise expressing opinions, using the following sentence structures:
I would rather choose … ….
I don’t think we could choose … …
Maybe it would be better to choose… …
What do you think of … ….
What’s your opinion ?
Why do you choose… …?
c. Vocabulary in this unit:
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
d. Useful expressions:
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, etc.
e. Grammar:
Learn about the Past Participle: Used as Attributive and Predicative, here are some examples for you to illustrate its usages:
1.My friends sent me some used stamps.
2.Books written by Cai Zhizhong are well received.
3.We are all interested in English.
4.He seemed confused at what I said.

Warming up

Activities: Collect the names of as many famous newspapers and magazines as you know and introduce the one you are most interested in .
(the following questions may help you in the discussion: What newspaper/ magazine do you subscribe ? Why do you like it ? Can you introduce one section of it? What section do you most like to read? )

Listening:
Aim: to integrate listening
1.Make your students clear about the tasks first, and tell them what they should do after finishing the tape.
2.Play the tape once again if necessary.
3.Discussing the answers by group work.
4.Check the answers.
5.Finishing the listening tasks in the workbook.

Speaking:
1.Encourage your students to be brave enough to practice, and guide them to finish the speaking task in the workbook..
2.Allow them 10 minutes or more to do group work.:
Begin the work with the following question: How do you get the news of the 28th Olympics? Then guide your students to discuss the advantages or disadvantages of the media you are familiar with.
3.Ask every group to make one or two sentences using the words face/ fire/go up/ burn down

Pre-reading: questions:
Allow the students a few minutes to discuss the questions listed on the text book, and then do Q&A practice:
---- How does a reporter decide what to write?
---- How much does a newspaper cost?
----Why do people read newspapers?
----How do newspapers report what happens?
----Where do people read newspapers?
----How do newspaper help us understand the world?

Reading:
Skim the text to get the main idea of the passage, and then ask Ss the question:
What does “Behind the headlines” really mean?

Discussion in group of four or six:
How can the media help solve problems? Give some examples.

Writing:
Ask students to develop what they have discussed into a passage of about 100 words.
Tips for writing:

Use correct tenses and sentence structure
Pay attention to punctuation
Check your work for mistakes

Pair activity: Improve writing by examine each other’s work and give advice.

Language study:

Ask students to study the following sentences and try to get the meaning of the sentences, encouraging them to use a dictionary if necessary.
1.Experienced editors and reporters make informed decisions about what events to report, how to report them, and why.
2.The editor’s job is to
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