Unit3Theworldonline-Task精品教案（牛津译林版选修7）.doc

PAGE  PAGE 4 Task Getting news from the Internet Skills building 1: reading charts and graphs When you are learning about a new topic, what information is most important besides opinions? (Facts and figures) Now I’ll present you a chart. Please look at it carefully and try to tell me what this chart can tell us. (The bar chart above shows the weight in kilograms of some fruit sold one day by a market. We can see that 52 kg of apples were sold, 40 kg of oranges were sold, and 8 kg of star fruit were sold.) So, when listening, we need to be able to collect facts and figures, which are often presented in the form of charts and graphs. You are expected to learn some different types of graphs and charts that use bars, lines or circles to show information. . Read the guidelines in Skills building 1 on Page 42. Focus on how to understand different kinds of charts and graphs. Step 1: collecting information 1. Pair work: Have a discussion with your partner: If you want to attend a series of lectures about the ways people watch or listen to the news, what should you pay special attention to? 2. Listen to the first speech and take notes in the space. Tapescript First speaker: We are here today to discuss the ways that people get their news. There are several main sources to which most people turn when they want to know what is happening in their local community, or around the world. They are newspapers, television (both local and national), radio and more recently, the Internet. The main point I would like to make is that there are different types of news, and that some are more easily found from certain sources. As examples, I will discuss sports results, the weather, politics and local, national and international current affairs. Sports results do not change once the event is over. Fans do not often need or want to see pictures of the games; they simply want to know the scores. For this type of news, radio and newspapers are the most suitable. The weather