2015-2016学年北师大版必修四Unit11theMediaLesson1WorldNewsB教案2.doc

2015-2016学年 HYPERLINK javascript:; \o 北师大版 北师大版  HYPERLINK javascript:; \o 选修7 必修4  HYPERLINK javascript:; \o Unit 19 Language Unit 11 the Media  HYPERLINK javascript:; \o Lesson 1 Language Learning B Lesson 1 World News B教案 Unit objectives 　Draw students’ attention to the unit objectives. Ask them which of the activities they do most often in Chinese (e.g. listening to songs/reading magazine articles) and which they do least often (e.g. writing a formal letter to a newspaper). Do they have any problems with any of these activities in Chinese? Have they done any of these activities in English? Resource used: Cassette. Background 　Chat show: TV programme where ‘guests’, usually celebrities, come and talk to a journalist, often about their own lives. Documentary: a serious programme with information/ opinions about a topic of current interest. The BBC’s series Panorama, is one of the most prestigious documentaries on British TV. 　Game show: a competition or quiz in which contestants take part, e.g. Gladiators. Soap opera: popular drama series that goes on for a long time, e.g. Coronation Street about the lives of people in a street in Manchester, and Eastenders about the lives of people living in the East End of London. Quality newspaper or broadsheet is a British paper that usually has large pages and contains a lot of serious articles, e.g. about politics, business and science. Quality papers in Britain are The Times, The Independent, The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph. Local papers are newspapers from cities or towns that report a lot of local news. They are usually published weekly. Tabloids are small-format newspapers containing only short, simple reports on the main news and favoring ‘human interest’ stories and stories about the personal lives of famous people. Warm-up Exercise 1 Key Words TV programmes: chat show, documentary, game show, soap opera, the news The Internet: website Magazines about: cars, computers, current affairs, fash