Teaching Plan
Module 5 Unit 4 Making the news
(Period 1 Pre－reading & Reading)
Teacher: Lei Zhilian Teaching class: Class 13 Grade 2 Date: 2014.10.08 Teaching goals
1. Knowledge and skills
1. To learn about how we get information and how to make a newspaper.
2. Help the students to talk about the qualities needed to be a good reporter and how to conduct a good interview.
3. To develop the students' reading ability by skimming and scanning the passage. 4. To develop the students' speaking ability by talking about newspapers. 2. Process and methods
1. While doing Warming Up the teacher can lead in the topic of this unit by showing students different pictures of media.
2. During Pre－reading the teacher can get the students to discuss what qualities a good journalist should have. This helps the students get ready to read the passage.
3. While doing Reading and Comprehending, the teacher may first ask the students to skim the text quickly to get the general idea of the passage. After reading the passage carefully, students are encouraged to answer some questions and find out some detailed information.
4. To consolidate the contents of the reading passage, the students should be required to retell the passage by finishing a cloze text at the end of the class. 3. Emotion, attitude and value
1. To get the students to be aware of their future occupation. 2. To develop students' sense of cooperative learning.
Important and difficult points
1. Help the students to talk about the qualities needed to be a good reporter and how to conduct a good interview.
2. To enable the students to talk about different jobs.
Teaching methods
Skimming method, task-based method, individual and group work
Teaching procedures
Step1. Lead-in
Where can we get the news from all over the world? What kind of jobs do we need to make a newspaper? Step2. Pre-reading
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Get the students to discuss: what are the qualities a good journalist needs to have? Step3. Fast reading
Read the passage as quickly as possible and finish the exercises: 1. Where did the conversation happen? Who were talking? 2. How is the text developed?
A. by following the natural time order B. by providing typical examples C. by asking and answering
D. by following the natural space order
3. Get the students to think how the text is developed by listing all the questions that Zhou Yang asked.
Step4. Detailed reading Do the following tasks:
1. Read the first two questions of Zhou Yang and choose the best answer: How much do you know about Zhou Yang? A. He is an experienced journalist. B. He should learn to work in a team
C. He must take a camera in an interview.
D. His first job is to cover a story immediately.
2. Read the third question of Zhou Yang and fill in the blanks: ◆we need to be _______. ◆we have to ask many different _________. ◆we must have a good “ ____ ” for a story. ◆we must use ________ to find out the missing parts of the story. ◆get the _______ facts ◆________ next questions ◆ ______ to the interviewee carefully. ◆Don't miss your _________ ◆Don’t be _____. ◆Don’t talk too much ourselves. Skills 3. Listen to the tape and fill in the blanks: The importance of listening Dos Tips Don’ts 4, Read the last question of Zhou Yang and put the following statements in correct order: 1). He tried to stop us publishing the article, but later we were proved right. 2). We went to interview him, but he denied taking money.
3). A footballer was accused of taking money for deliberately not scoring goals to let the other team win.
4). We wrote an article suggesting he was guilty.
5). We arranged an interview between the footballer and the man supposed to bribe him. 5. Judge if the following statements are True or False: 1). Zhou can go out on a story immediately.
2). Zhou took a notebook and a camera with himself.
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3). While interviewing, the reporter must prepare the next question depending on what the person says.
4). The footballer admitted he took the money.
5). Zhou took a course of photography at mid-school. 6). Zhou is very enthusiastic. Step5. Consolidation
To consolidate the contents of the reading passage, the students should be required to retell the passage by filling in a cloze text.
To the reporters, it’s ____________for them to take a camera because they have ______________ with them. The reporters should be _______ and they must have a _____ for a story. They know how to _______the information they need. While interviewing, they won’t _______, they won’t ____________ themselves, and they should ________ the answers carefully .They will listen to the _______ facts and ask new questions. There is a trick of the ______ , that is ,with the permission of the interviewee, they would use _____________ which could keep the evidence to help ________their story.
Step6: Practice (do an interview)
A: Which job will you choose in future? B: I want to be a ____. A: Why?
B: A ____ needs to be _________ . I think I would make a good ____ because_________________
Below are some adjectives needed: patient imaginative well-organized polite concise creative curious careful gifted professional Step7. Homework 1. Retell the text by using the first person (I).
2. Read the reading text aloud for some times until you can read it fluently. The design of blackboard:
qualities ……
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