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 down
2. Practise expressing opinion using the following:
What do you think of…?
What’s your opinion?
Why do you choose…?
Perhaps… is more important.
I would rather choose…
I don’t think we should choose…
Our readers want to know about…
3. 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 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 slide
2.several English newspapers and magazines
3.the blackboard
Teaching Procedures:
◇StepI. Greeting
T: Good morning, boys and girls!
◇StepII: Lead-in (10 minutes)
T: Let’s begin our class, Unit 2---News Media. Do you know the meaning of news media in Chinese?
S: 新闻媒体
T: That’s right. Now, please look at the pictures on page 9. There are five pictures and these pictures show us five 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, let’s talk about radio first. I know some of you listen to radio everyday, right?
S: Yes.
T: So do I. I listen to radio everyday. I can listen to any programmes I’d 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 newspapers 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.
S: Yes.
T: Have you ever read any English newspapers or magazines?
S: No, we haven’t.
T: Oh, I’m 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 英语沙龙in Chinese. And what’s this?
S: English language learning.
T: Yes. It is 英语学习. Now, this one. It is…… 大学英语
S: College English, 大学英语.
T: You are right. When I read English newspapers, I often read China Daily(中国日报), 21st Century(21世纪报)(show them to the Ss). Ok, let’s look at this newspaper (21st Century). We know newspapers 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(头版)
S: Front page.
T: And these news are put in the front page, so they are called-----?
S: 头版新闻。
T: Yes, we can call 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(标题)
T: Under the headline, this is article(文章).
S: Article
T: And this picture, this shows us advertisement(广告).
(Take the 21st Century away)
T: We know newspapers 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.
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