1、Unit Four Making the NewsReading QuestionWhere can we get the information?newspaperinternetradiomagazineTV programmesMeans of media todayMeans of media todayQuestionsHow many different kinds of jobs do newspapers have?What are they?Look at the following pictures,and guess what they are?reportersWho
2、interviews people and writes news stories?Chief editorWho is in charge of the newspaper?Photographer Who takes photos of important people or events?designersWho designs each section of the paper?printerWho prints the newspaper?editor deputy editor sub editor critic cartoonist correspondent More jobs
3、编辑副主编审校编辑评论员漫画师通讯员 If you want to be a reporter,do you think what qualities a good news reporter needs to have?Very Very importantimportantImportantImportantNot very Not very importantimportant1 Higher level of education1 Higher level of education2 Work experience2 Work experience3 Good communicatio
4、n skills3 Good communication skills4 Curious,active personality4 Curious,active personality5 Hard-working5 Hard-working6 6 Enthusiasm Enthusiasm for the jobfor the job7788Prepared to work long hoursAbility to work in a teamMy First Work Assignment“Unforgettable,”says new reporter1.Where did the conv
5、ersation happen?Read and answer2.Who were talking?3.What does the reading passage mainly talk about?(a multiple choice)At the office of a popular English newspaper.Zhou Yang and his new boss Hu Xin.What does the reading passage mainly talk about?A.The skills necessary to become a good reporterB.The
6、skills necessary to become a good photographerC.How to conduct a good interviewD.Being carefully in the new environmentE.A and CDetailed readingTrue or False1.Zhou can go out on a story immediately.2.Zhou took a notebook,a pen,a camera with himself.3.While interviewing,the reporter would just ask th
7、e questions prepared before hand.4.The footballer admitted he took the money.5.Zhou took a course of photography at mid-school.6.Zhou is very enthusiastic.Read and fill in the blanksZhou Yangs notesSkills We need to be _.To _ all the information we need to know,we have to ask many different _.To be
8、a good reporter,we must have a“_”for a story.When we find people are not _,we must find out the missing parts of the _.curiousacquirequestionsnosetelling the truthstoryTips Dos _ to the answers carefully._ Dont be _.Dont talk too much ourselves.rudeDontsListenThe importance _of listeningget the deta
9、iled facts Questions aboutHu Xins answersStages in researching a story1._ 2.note _ 3._ facts4.do _How to check factsuse _ and ask _How to deal with accusations of printing liesuse _ for the _ask questionsreactionscheckresearchresearchwitnessesa tape recorderinterviewPost-reading activity:What is new
10、s?It is some unusual or uncommonhappenings.For example,when a dog bites someone,it is too common to become news.But when you bite a dog,it becomes news!So,can you make a piece of news in one sentence?WhoWhatHowWhenWhereWhyA man was seriously injured in a car accident at about 7a.m.on the 101 Road be
11、cause of the heavy fog.A manwas injuredseriouslyat about 7a.m.on the 101 Roadbecause of the heavy fogWhoWhatHowWhenWhereWhyCan you make your own news in one sentence?HomeworkTranslate the following phrases and sentences.Can you spot them?cover a storyhave a“nose”for a storya trick of the tradeget th
12、e fact straight get the wrong end of the stickThis is how the story goesget a scoop1.His discussion with his new boss,Hu Xin,was to strongly influence his life as a journalist.2.Youll find your colleagues very eager to assist you.3.Not only am I interested in photography,but I took an amateur course at university to update my skills.4.Only if you ask many different questions will you acquire all the information you need to know.5.They must use research to inform themselves of the missing part of the story.
