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Book5 Unit4 Making the news Using language: Getting the Scoop

Teaching Design

陆河中学郑梦捷

Teaching Aims: 1.

Get students to know the whole process of making a news paper. 2.

Develop students reading skills by reading and enable them to learn how to use different reading skills to read different materials.

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Then, as the article was going to written in English, Zhou Yang took a copy to

be the newspaper to polish the style. She was also

native speaker employed by the very happy with Zhou Yang’s story. “You really know how to write a great front page

article, and the she said. Zhou Yang smiled with happiness.

picture looks amazing too!”

3 After that, the chief editor read and approved it, before sending it out to print. “Well

done,” he said

to Zhou Yang. “But please show me your evidence so we’re sure we’ve got our facts straight.” “I’ll bring it to

you immediately,” said Zhou Yang excitedly.

5 His first task was to write the story, but he had

to do it carefully. Although he realized the man had been lying, Zhou Yang knew he must not accuse him directly. He would have

to be accurate. Concise too! He knew how to do that. Months of training had taught him to

write with no wasted words or phrases. He sat down at his computer and began to work. Step1 Jigsaw reading:

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The first person who saw his article was a senior editor from his department. He checked the evidence, read the article and passed it on to the copy-editor. She began to edit the piece and design the main headline and smaller heading. “This will look very good on the front page,” she said. “Where is a good picture of this guy?

4 Finally，the news desk editor took the story and began to work on all the stories and photos until all the pages were set. All the information was then ready to be processed into film negatives. This was the first stage of the printing process. They needed four negatives, as several colors were going to be used on the story. After one last check the page was ready to be printed.

6 Zhou Yang had just come back into the office after interviewing a famous film star. “Quick,” said the editor. “Get the story ready. We need it in the first edition to be ahead of the other newspapers. This is a scoop.” “Did he really do that?” asked someone from the International News Department. “Yes, I’m afraid he did,” Zhou Yang answered and set to work 1 immediately.

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Enable students to learn the skills of summary and retelling. 4.

Stimulate students’ interest in learning about the basic process of making the news. 5.

Develop students’ sense of group cooperation and teamwork. Key and Difficult Points:

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Enable students to learn to use reading strategies such as skimming and scanning and so on. 2.

Enable students to summary and retell the passage.

Teaching Procedures

Step1 Lead-in&Warming up

Ask students what is their favorite newspaper and let them know some famous English news paper. There are two functions of this part. Firstly, it can lead students into the topic of the passage. Secondly, enable students to know it is not easy to make a newspaper because it is teamwork.

Step2 Pr-reading

Activity1:A guessing game

Let students guess the person’s job by some pictures and description.

Step3 while -reading (Group work) Before the class, the whole class is divided into 6 groups and every. Ask students to close their textbook and choose one card from their sheets(there are six cards on the sheet, each standing for different parts of the text).

Activity2:Jigsaw reading Task1

read the card silently to get to know what the person’s job.(each students in the group choose one card from the envelop and make sure six cards muse be all chosen)

Task2 share information with their group members and try to put all the steps in the right order by using some discourse markers. (such as first, then and finally etc.)

Task 3 Scanning: ask students to find out what each person did in each step

1 2 3

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journalist journalist senior editor copy editor

interview write

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First edition 7 News desk editor chief editor native speaker

Task4 ask students to sum up the process by using a mind map and the tips on the blackboard Mind Map

Getting the ______

______

process

______and______ process

______

process

Task5 Retelling Suppose you are working in a newsroom. A group of visitors are visiting the newsroom. Would you introduce the writing and printing process to them?(with the help of the mind map and the tips on the sheet) You can follow the structure below: To make a newspaper,first the journalist interview... Secondly the senior editor ... ...

Step3 Post-reading Whose job do you like to take most? Why?(at least 3 reasons) You can follow the structure below: I like the _______ the most.

Firstly... __________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ Secondly.... _______________________________________________ _________________________________________________________ Finally...__________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________

Step4 Homework(four options for you to choose) What will you do to deal with the problem?Your reasons? Situation 1: in the process of getting a scoop.

Situation 2: in the process of

writing Imagine you’ve had an interview with Lin

Imagine you are to write a news Shuhao. But after you come back to the office,

report on the release of the teacher who you find your voice recorder lost and you didn’maltreated the kid in the kindergarten. You t take many notes. can’t help putting your personal feelings

into the article.

Situation 3 in the process of checking Situation 4: in the process of printing

Imagine you have finished your report

Imagine the news desk editor is about school bus safety. When you hand in your almost getting the front page ready when article to the chief editor, he casts doubt on one the chief editor calls and wants to change of the statistics which you get from the micro the front page story into a new scoop.

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