Book5 Unit 4 Making the News
warming up and Reading
Lead-in
Question

Where can we get the information?
Means of media today
Means of media today
radio
magazine
newspaper
internet
Questions
How many different kinds of jobs do newspapers have?
What are they?
Look at the following pictures, and guess what they are?
Warming up
reporters
Who interviews people and writes news
stories?
Chief editor
Who is in charge of the newspaper?
Photographer
Who takes photos of important people or
events?
designers
Who designs each section of the paper?
printer
Who prints the newspaper?
reporters
editors
designers
printers
Finally, a newspaper comes out.
photographers
Pre-reading
If you want to be a reporter, do you think what qualities a good news reporter needs to have?
Group work
Prepared to work long hours
Ability to work in a team
Discussion
1 .What level of education should a good news
reporter have ?
2. Dose work experience play an important role in making the news?
3. Is being curious and active important? why
or why not ?
4. Enthusiasm for the job is the key to success, do you agree ? Why/why not ?
My First Work Assignment “Unforgettable,” says new reporter
Reading
Task One
Where did the conversation happen?
Skimming
2. Who were talking?
At the office of a popular English newspaper.
Zhou Yang and his new boss Hu Xin.
While reading
(Read the first two lines)
True or False
Read From line 2 to line 15
1. Zhou can go out on a story immediately.
2. Zhou took a notebook, a pen, a camera with
himself.
3. While interviewing, the reporter would just ask the questions prepared before hand.
4. The footballer admitted he took the money.
5. Zhou took a course of photography at mid-school.
6. Zhou is very enthusiastic.
Read and fill in the blanks
Task Two
scanning
Read (From line 16 to line29)
Zhou Yang’s notes
curious
acquire
questions
nose
telling the truth
story
rude
Don’ts
Listen
The importance _________________
of listening
get the detailed facts
Protect the story from accusation
(read from line30 to line 42)
ask questions
reactions
check
research
research
witnesses
a tape recorder
interview

What does the reading passage mainly
talk about?
The skills necessary to become a good reporter
The skills necessary to become a good photographer
How to conduct a good interview
Being carefully in the new environment
A and C
Read the passage again and divide it into three
sections, each of which looks at one duty of a reporter.
Then write down the main idea of the whole passage.
to get an accurate story
to work in a team
to protect a story from accusation
part1(line1toline15)
part2 (line16 to line29)
part3(line30 toline42)
Read the passage again and divide it into three
sections, each of which looks at one duty of a reporter.
Then write down the main idea of the whole passage.
part2 (line16 to line29) to get an accurate story

part1(line1to line15) to work in a team

part3(line30 toline42) to protect a story from accusation
Post --reading
Discussion
Guess the meaning of the terms of the press :
1. cover a story
2. have a “nose” for a story
3. a trick of the trade
4. get the fact straight
5. get the wrong end of the stick
6. a real “scoop”
to present ideas fairly
to report on an important event
not to understand properly
be able to tell whether it is a true story
a piece of hot news
clever ways known to experts
summary
Retell the text
Revision and checking up
Zhou Yang will never forget his first _____________ at the office of ___________________________. As a new journalist, he works as ______________ to an experienced journalist. When he ____________ a story, he doesn’t need to take ________ because he will have a professional _____________ to go with him. To be a good journalist, he needs to be______ and ask many different questions to acquire the ____________ he needs. While interviewing, he shouldn’t be________. Furthermore, he had better not talk too much. He has to listen for______ facts. There is a trick of the ______ , that is, with the permission of the interviewee, he can use recorders which may keep the _______ to help _________ their story
assignment
a popular English newspaper
an assistant
goes out on
a camera
photographer
curious
information
rude
detailed
trade
evidence
support
Homework
1.Retell the text according to the summary
2. Get the latest information with your partners
and make a piece of newspaper
Thank You !