高二英语makingthenews课件.ppt

Unit 4 Workbook Reading task SEARCHING FOR THE TRUTH Read the passage and try to find out the main idea of it. Main idea: The passage tells us what a primary source and a secondary source are and the difference between them. A primary source needs to have two things: 1 _________________________ 2 ____________________________ _______________ being there on spot witnessing the happening of the event Primary sources and secondary sources are very important for finding out the truth. The closer a person is to the event they describe in time or geographically, the more likely they are to be accurate. Tips Read the passage again and determine whether the statements are true or false. When we read about Jia Sixie in our textbook we are reading a primary source. 2. As we watch the news on TV, the person presenting the programme in the studio is the secondary source. F T 3. Photographers sometimes are both primary and secondary sources. 4. Knowing the difference of primary and secondary sources can help us decide what is a fact and what is an opinion. 5. Often facts and opinions are mixed in any report. T T F Read the following information. Which are primary sources (P) and which are secondary sources (S)? Book Author Date written 1 Life of Julius Caesar (100 BC - 44 BC) Plutarch (Greek) Between 46 AD and 120 AD S Book Author Date written 2 The Gallic Wars (France) (57 BC - 52 BC) Caesar (Roman) In 50s BC 3 Julius Caesar: a play Shakespeare (British) 1599 P S The primary source is_______________ because_______________________. I think ____________________________ __________________________________will have more opinion than facts because___________________________________________________. The Garlic Wars it was written at the time Plutarch’s Life of Julius Caesar and Shakespeare’s play about Julius Caesar because they were written long after the events happened Now that you understand how important eyewitnesses are, you can role-play