英语新闻听力技巧.pptVIP

The Skills for English News Listening What is news? 1. News is a fresh report of events, facts, or opinions that people did not know before they read your story. 新闻就是针对人们读你的报道以前还不知道的事 件、事实或观点的一种全新报道。 2. News is anything timely that interests a number of persons, and the best news is that which has the greatest interest of the greatest number. 凡是及时的、能引起一部分人兴趣的东西, 便是新 闻。而最好的新闻则是那种能够激起最大多数人最 大兴趣的东西。 3. News is any event, idea or opinion that is timely, that interests or affects a large number of people in a community and that is capable of being understood by them. 新闻是指人们能及时获悉的事件、观点或见解， 它能吸引或影响社会上的许多人，并能为他们所 理解。 4. News is the reporting of anything timely which has importance, use, or interest? to a?considerable number of persons in a publication audience. 新闻是对任何事物的及时报道，对于读者群体中 的许多人来说，这类报道具有重要性、实用性或 趣味性。 5. If a dog bites a man, it is not news; if a man bites a dog, its (big) news. 狗咬人并非新闻，人咬狗才是（大）新闻。 …… News is an account of what is happening around us. It may involve current events, new initiative or ongoing projects or issues. But news is not only about what’s taking place of the day, it also concerns background analysis, opinions, human interest stories, etc. To know the structure of English news report To memorize the common words used in the English news To master a number of Acronym To know the different pronunciations of same number To do the exercise step by step To pay attention to the great domestic and foreign events A general pattern in a news story is an inverted-pyramid style. It moves from the most important to the least important. The main idea usually occurs in the first one or two sentences. In long sentences, what can we focus on? Five main wh-elements: English sentence, like a tree, is composed by the trunk and leaves. Find the trunk and you will see the whole tree and then the wood. The Inverted Pyramid Form News Structure The lead Every hard news