新标准大学英语综合教程2unit-4active-reading-1.pptVIP

Identifying personal views in news Using italics New words and phrases . Matching headline Bridging information gap Group discussion Q1: Which of the above headlines interests you most? Why? (Group 1 8) Q2: Choose anyone of the above headlines and discuss whether it is newsworthy? Why or why not? (Group 2 7) Q3: What kind of story usually appear in the news? (Group 3 6) Q4: Why are people interested in the news? (Group 4 5) Bridging information gap Bridging information gap Text Organisation Text Organisation Newsworthy 3 elements Media power Identifying Personal views Read the text and evaluate the statements in Activity 8, P47. Check (√) the statements evidently supported in text and decide what the passage really says. Para 2-3 (to evaluate Statement 1, 2, 3) Para 4 (to evaluate Statement 4, 5) Para 7 (to evaluate Statement 6, 7) Para 8-9 (to evaluate Statement 8, 9) Identifying personal views Mentioned: Bad news is common Not mentioned: no judgment on the media’s attitude toward bad news Identifying personal views Para 4 Identifying personal views Para 7 Identifying personal views Para 8-9 Italics usage Pair work: Actvitiy9, p47 1. What do you think makes a story newsworthy? Q1 Q2 Social purposes of the reports Content of news: What news we hear or read Reporting Angles: From what point of view the news is reported Words or structures with implied meaning … Q3 Summarising Individual Work (1) Listen and read the summary of the  text. Catch the key elements of each  sentence. (2) Recall key words in the 2nd reading. 1st reading What exactly is news? The objective importance and the historical, international significance of an event is not enough. It is the odd, unexpected and human nature that made news like 9/11 memorable and newsworthy. So is immediacy which refers to the nearness of the event in time. When it comes to immediacy, those media like TV, radio and Internet have an enormous advantage over th