Unit 4 Making the news

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Unit 4 Making the news
Reading
NSEFC(?????) Module 5 No.1 Middle School of
Sanming, Fujian Le Yuan (??)
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Team Apple
VS
Team Banana
In the following classroom activities, try to do
well to get points for your team!
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Winner
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Happy Dictionary
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Quiz
1.The first regular newspaper in the world
appeared in ____. A. Britain B. Germany
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Quiz
2. How many national English-language newspapers
are there in China? A. One B.
Two
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China Daily, established in 1981, is the only
national English-language newspaper in China. The
average daily circulation (???)is more than
200,000, one-third of which is abroad in more
than 150 countries and regions, helping the world
know more about China .
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Do you know any other newspapers?
Beijing Morning Post
Southern Weekly
Yangcheng Evening News
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(No Transcript)
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English Coaching Paper
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Foreign Newspapers
The USA
The UK
Singapore
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Zhou Yang, the main character of the reading
passage, is offered a job at China Daily. He
wants to know what kind of jobs they have and
what each job involves. Could you help him to
find out?
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pair work
Types of jobs
What it involves
printer
A.interviews people or finds out about events
from onlookers
(???)
reporter/ journalist
B.checks facts and makes changes if necessary
C.prints the newspaper
editor
D. lays out articles and photographs
photographer
E.takes photographs of important people or events
designer
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printer
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designers
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photographer
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editors
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reporter
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Pre-reading
Zhou Yang will become a news reporter at China
Daily. What are the qualities a good news
reporter needs to have?
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Reporters from China Daily
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Pre-reading
(group work)
Page25 Exercise1 Discuss the question in groups
of four and tick the boxes below.
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Very important
important
not very important
Qualities
1. Higher level of education



2. Work experience



3. Good communication skills



4. Curious, active personality



What else??
5. Hard-working



6. Enthusiasm(??) for the job



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Pre-reading
(group work)
What other qualities do you think are also
important? Please add two more qualities.
Each group should try to reach the same
conclusion.
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Pre-reading
After that, you should learn to present the
result of your group discussion like this Our
group agrees thatare very important qualities.
are important. is not very important. (Add two
more qualities) Besides, we agree ___and ___are
also important.
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Reading
MY FIRST WORK ASSIGNMENT Unforgettable, says
new reporter
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Fast Reading Task Please go through the
text as fast as you can to find the answers to
the following three questions
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1. Can Zhou Yang go out on a story alone
   immediately? Why(not)?

No. He cannot go out on a story until he is
experienced enough.
2.What mistakes must he avoid?
He must avoid being rude, talking too much
himself and must listen to the answers carefully.
3.How does Zhou Yang feel on his first day at
work?
He is curious and excited. He is eager to go out
on a story.
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Comprehending

• Task 1 (Lets learn to guess the meanings
• of new words and expressions!)

Reading Strategies
When you are reading a passage with some new
words and expressions, you should not refer to a
dictionary at once. Instead, you should try to
guess the meanings through the words before and
after them.
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• In the text, several expressions are used in
  an idiomatic (???,???)way, which adds to the
  difficulty of comprehending the text. Lets guess
  what each expression means!

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Write down your answers on the paper.

• Only when you have seen what he or she does, can
  you cover a story by yourself.
• (Paragraph 4 at page
  26)
• A. to report on an important event
• B. to make a story unknown

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• 2. This is a trick of the trade.
• (The last
  paragraph at page 26)
• clever ways known to experts(??,??)
• thing done in order to cheat(??) somebody
• 3. If the person being interviewed agrees, we
  sometimes use small recorders to make sure that
  we get all our facts straight.
• (The last
  paragraph at page 26)
• to get all the facts without any difficulty
• to present ideas fairly and exactly

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• 4. Have you ever had a case where somebody
  accused(??) your reporters of getting the wrong
  end of the stick?
• (Paragraph 1 at
  page 27)
• to hurt somebody
• not to understand an idea properly

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• 5. This is how the story goes.
• (Paragraph 2 at
  page 27)
• This is the story.
• This is how the story disappears.
• 6. Perhaps I too will get a scoop.
• (Paragraph 3 at
  page 27)
• to get the story first
• to get an interesting story

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Lets check the answers!

• Only when you have seen what he or she does, can
  you cover a story by yourself.
• (Paragraph 4 at page
  26)
• A. to report on an important event
• B. to make a story unknown

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• 2. This is a trick of the trade.
• (The last
  paragraph at page 26)
• clever ways known to experts(??,??)
• thing done in order to cheat(??) somebody
• 3. If the person being interviewed agrees, we
  sometimes use small recorders to make sure that
  we get all our facts straight.
• (The last
  paragraph at page 26)
• to get all the facts without any difficulty
• to present ideas fairly and exactly

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• 4. Have you ever had a case where somebody
  accused(??) your reporters of getting the wrong
  end of the stick?
• (Paragraph 1 at
  page 27)
• to hurt somebody
• not to understand an idea properly

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• 5. This is how the story goes.
• (Paragraph 2 at
  page 27)
• This is the story.
• This is how the story disappears.
• 6. Perhaps I too will get a scoop.
• (Paragraph 3 at
  page 27)
• to get the story first
• to get an interesting story

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Comprehending

• Task 2 (Lets find out how to conduct an
  interview!)
• How many questions does Zhou Yang ask ? What are
  they? Underline all the questions so that you
  can see them clearly.
• Listen and read. Pay attention to the way the
  questions develop.

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Look at the way the questions develop.

• 1. Can I go out on a story immediately?

2. What do I need to take with me?
3. What do I need to remember when I go out
to cover a story?
4. What mistakes must I avoid?
5. Why is listening so important?
6. How can I listen to answers if I have to
write down what he or she is saying?
7. Have you ever had a case where
somebody accused your reporters of getting the
wrong end of the stick?
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• As you see, all the seven questions are
  finding out more about the qualities and skills
  needed for the job. They start in a general(???)
  way and gradually(???) become more
  specific(???).The questions develop naturally
  from the answers of Hu Xin and all these answers
  form a developmental whole things to t_____,
  things to r_________, things to a_____,
  importance of l_________, and ensuring(??)accuracy
  (???).

ake
emember
void
istening
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Post-reading Activity
Interviewing
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Pair Work
Design an interview with your partner. One can
pretend to be a famous person. The other will be
a reporter and he/she must find out as much as
he/she can about his/her life. Try to make your
interview special and interesting!
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famous people
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Homework

1. Read the text.
2. Writing Design another interview on your own.

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• Assessment questionnaire Name_______
  
• 1.Did you enjoy the lesson? Yes So-so
  No
• 2.Did you learn a satisfactory amount of English?
  Yes So-so No
• 3. Were you active to express yourself in the
  class? Yes So-so No
• 4. What did you particularly like about the
  lesson?
• ________________________________________.
• 5. What suggestions do you have for the teachers
  improvement?
• Or what do you want to say to the teacher?
  ________________________________________.

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Thank you!
Goodbye!