1、Teaching Plan of Unit 2News mediaGoals/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 dont think we could choose Maybe it would be bet
2、ter to choose What do you think of . Whats 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, to
3、lerate, affair, retire, awful, telegram, housewife, crowded, shopper, complete, bore, attitude, disappoint, responsible, citizen, polluter, arm, updated. Useful expressions: go up, for once, relate to, be addicted to, even if, draw attention to , on all sides, change ones mind, current affairs, look
4、 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 seem
5、ed confused at what I said.Warming upActivities: 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 yo
6、u 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.
7、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 y
8、ou 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 downPre-reading: questions:Allow the students a few minutes to discuss t
9、he 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:Ski
10、m 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
11、words.Tips for writing:The instructions help students to integrate writing skills.Use correct tenses and sentence structurePay attention to punctuationCheck your work for mistakesPair activity: Improve writing by examine each others work and give advice.Language study:Ask students to study the follo
12、wing 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 editors job is to keep the newspaper balanced and interesting to
13、the readers.Ask students to make similar sentences to consolidate their work.Grammar:Give some examples to students and ask them to study the usage of the Past Participle:1. the burned log/ an escaped prisoner/developed countries/fallen leaves.Used as Attibutive2. I bought some painted chairs.3. Tha
14、t is a newly-invented device.4. After a tiring day , you feel tired.Used as Predictive5. Dont get excited.6. Summer is gone.Used as predictiveAsk them to make as many sentences as they can, using the infinitive.Integrating skills:Aims: improve reading and writing skills.1. Explain some important sen
15、tences and help students to solve problems they met during the course of studying the two news items.2. Discuss what is included in a news item:4W+1H- what/who/when/why+howOut-of-class work:Learn the new words and the useful expressions by heart.Read more news items about science from newspapers or magazines.Copy one news item from China Daily or other newspaper and study it carefully:1. Find 4W+1H in the news item;2. Write a piece of news using the skills you got in learning this unit.