Period 3-4 Pre-reading/Reading/Post-reading
Teaching Aims:
1. Train the students’ reading ability, especially the skills of summarizing and scanning.
2. Study and have a good grasp of some key words and phrases.
Teaching Important Points:
words and phrases: more than, relate to, for once, be addicted to, on all sides, inform, experienced,
switch, etc.
Understand the passage exactly.
Teaching Difficult Points:
How to help the Ss learn more about reporters and newspapers.
Teaching Methods:
1.Fast reading to get the general idea of the text.
2.Careful reading to further understand the text.
3.Individual, pair or group work to make every student take an active part in the activities in class.
Teaching Aids: a computer, a recorder, the Bb
Teaching Procedures:
Step 1 Greet the whole class as usual.
Step 2 Reading
We have talked a lot about news media. Today we are going to read a passage about reporters and
newspapers. Scan the text , try to get the general idea of the text. and finish pre-reading.(1 and 6)
Now please read the text again carefully, and find the answers to the questions on the screen.
1.Do newspapers and other media simply record what happens?
2.Who were asked to be interviewed? And why?
Whom does a reporter have to discuss with before he/she decides what to write? Why?
4. And what is the person’s job?
5. Is interviewing someone easy? What must a reporter know?
6. When an interview is finished, what should the reporter do?
7. Which of the articles that they have written do they like best? Why?
8. What could they write about if they could write any article? Why?
9. What is the basic task for a reporter?
10.What result can TV programmes and printed articles bring to us?
(check the answers)
Step 3 Language Points:
Newspapers and other media do more than simply record what happens.报纸和其他媒介并不仅仅记录已发生的事情。
(1) 该句中的do是助动词，起强调作用，用以加强说话者的语气。
e.g. Do remember to remind me to return the book I borrowed from you.
(2) more than不仅仅；极为，非常；多于；难以；不能
e.g. She’s more than a teacher to us.
The boy more than smiled but laughed.
这男孩不仅是微笑，而是放声大笑了。
We are more than pleased with the results. 我们对结果极为满意。
He has more than 300 pictures.
This room is three time larger than that one.
这个房间比那个房间大两倍。
Experienced editors and reporters make informed decisions about what events to report and how to
report them.经验丰富的编辑和记者对于该报道什么事件以及如何报道作出明智的决定。
句中的experienced(富有经验的)和informed(见识广的，有知识的) 都是动词的过去分词作定词，修饰动词。单个的过去分词作定语时，通常放在它所修饰的名词前面。
e.g. a fallen tree一棵倒下的树 a broken chair一把破椅子
(2) informed adj. 明智的，有知识的，了解情况的
e.g. He is a well-informed man.他是个消息灵通的人。
inform的用法:
inform sb. of sth.告知某人某事 inform sb. that/wh-…告知某人
inform sb.＋疑问词＋不定式
e.g. The singer informed us of their arrival.
歌手们把他们到来的消息告诉了我们。
The nurse informed me that visiting hours were over.
护士告诉我探病时间已经结束了。
Who informed you when to start? 是谁告诉你们出发时间的？
They also make sure that readers can relate to the stories.他们还要确保报道的内容与读者的生活密切相关。
relate v.i. & v.t （和～）相关；涉及；把～与～关联起来
e.g. It is difficult to relate the two cases. 很难把两个案子联系起来。
We should learn to relate the results to the causes.
我们应该学会把结果与原因联系起来看问题。
Light industry is closely related to the people’s life.
轻工业与人们的生活有密切的关系。
The two reporters agreed to switch roles for once and be the interviewees rather than the i
nterviewers in order to let us know about their work and how the news we read in made
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