Unit 4
Making the news
From where can we get information ?
Media?
newspaper
internet
radio
magazine
TV programmes
Do you know any famous newspaper in our country? Or abroad?
How many sections are there in a newspaper?
Local news
International news
Business section
Entertainment
Advertisement
…
How many different kinds of jobs do newspapers have?
reporter
editor
designer
painter
printer
photographer
…
Chief editor 主编
deputy editor 副主编
sub editor 审校编辑
critic 评论员
cartoonist 漫画师
correspondent 通讯员
What all these people should do?
reporters
Look at the following pictures, and guess what they are?
editors
Photographer
designers
printer
Can you guess what all the people should do?
interviews people or finds out about events from onlookers
make sure the writing is clear, concise and accurate; checks facts
types of jobs What it involves?
journalist
editor
takes photographs of important people or events
lays out the article and photographs
prints the newspaper
photographer
designer
printer
If you want to be a reporter, do you think what qualities a good news reporter needs to have?
What else?
Qualities Very important important not
Higher level of education
Work experience
Good communication skills
Curious, active personality
Hard-working
Enthusiam for the job
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 ?
Requirement of a reporter in advertisement:
1. Bachelor (学士)degree or above
2. At least 2 year working experience
3. Fluency in English both on spoken and written
4. Outgoing personality and excellent interpersonal & communication skills
5. Initiative(主动的), passionate(充满激情的) , team-working and work with high degree of independence
6. Able to work under pressure
7. Good knowledge in computer software application (应用) especially in MS office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)
Do you still remember your first day at school? Primary school? Middle school? Or high school?
Exchange your experience with your partner.
My First Work Assignment “Unforgettable,” says new reporter
Words and expressions
journalist editor photographer delighted admirable unusual assist assistant submit profession professional colleague eager concentrate amateur update acquire assess inform deadline meanwhile depend on case accuse accuse of deliberately so as to sceptical guilty dilemma demand publish section technical technically thorough gifted
While-reading
1. Answer questions 1) and 2).
1).What are they talking about?
2).How many questions does Zhou Yang ask his new boss, Hu Xin? Please underline all these questions.
They are talking about how to become a good reporter, including some necessary skills, some duties and so on.
skimming
2. True or False. (Tell why)
3). Zhou Yang is very enthusiastic about his new job.
4). Zhou Yang is very eager to learn.
5). Zhou Yang is modest.
Can I go out on a story immediately?
What do I need to remember when I go out to cover a story?
What should I keep in mind?
The purpose of writing the passage
1) It shoes the students the skills necessary to become a good journalist.
2).It wants to show how to conduct a good interview.
scanning
What a new reporter should do on the first day
1) The first time he will be put as an assistant to and experienced journalist..
2) There is no need for him to take a camera with him. He will have a professional photographer with him to take photographs.
1)He needs to be curious.
2) A good reporter must have a “ nose ” for a story.
3) He has to listen for detailed facts.
4) If the interviewee agrees, he can use a recorder to get the facts straight.
What a reporter needs to remember when going to cover a story
After-reading
Questions and discussion.
1. What does Zhou Yang have with him when he goes out?
a notebook, pen and a camera
2. What equipment do you think a news reporter should have nowadays?
mobile phone, digital camera, small recorder, notebook computer, satellite telephone,
Read the text carefully, and finish the following chart about how to become a reporter.(work in groups)
tell if someone
is telling the truth
accurate
research
questions
detailed facts
next question
Questions about Zhou Yang’s answers
The skills needed 1. be able to _______________
_________________________ .
2. be _______ 3. do ________
4. ask ___________
The importance of listening get the _________________
prepare the ________________
ask questions
reactions
check
research
research
witnesses
a tape recorder
interview
Questions about Zhou Yang’s answers
Stages in researching a story 1. ____________________
2. note _______
3. ________ facts
4. do ___________
How to check facts use _________ and ask ________
How to deal with accusations of printing lies use _________________ for the
____________
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.
Duties:1. to work in a team
2. to get an accurate story
3. to protect a story from accusations
Main idea: the passage tells us about the qualities needed to be a good reporter, how to get an accurate story and how to protect a story from accusation.
patient, well-organized, thorough, curious, careful, concise, professional, polite
creative, imaginative, technically good, gifted, professional, patient well-organized
concise patient imaginative well-organized technically good polite honest truthful thorough creative curious admirable careful gifted professional
description
Adjectives to describe a reporter Adjectives to describe
a photographer
A reporter needs to be __________________________________
but a photographer needs to be
___________________________________
I think I would make a good XXX _____________________________
thorough, curious, careful and concise
creative, imaginative,
technically good and gifted.
They both need to be professional ,
well-organized and patient.
because I am creative and
I enjoy being technically good at things.
occupation n a job or employment 职业
taking possession 占有
occupation, job, work, profession 和 trade辨析
四个词都有“工作”之意。
occupation 较为正式,经常用在填写表格上。
job是可数名词,可指一个单独任务,也可指工作职位
work是不可数名词,泛指一切工作。
profession一般指需要专门技能,尤指需要较高教育水 平的某一行业、职业,如医生或律师。
Language points
Practice:
选词填空
( occupation, job, profession, work )
a. Please state your name,age and_________ below.
b. I have a few _____ to do in the house this morning.
c. Looking after children all day is hard____
d. My husband is at the very to of medical____________ .
occupation
jobs
work
profession
Can I go out on a story immediately?
我可以马上出去采访吗?
on 后接一些名词如visit, holiday, business, trip等,常与come, go等动词连用,用来说明活动或状态。
Practice:
她决定今年暑假去一趟英国。
She decided to go ______________ to England this summer.
他去了长途旅行。
He has been away __________________ .
on a visit
on a long trip
NO need for a camera! 不需要带相机!
no need…是句型There is no need …的省略形式,need 后面可以接for/of ( doing ) sth 或( for sb ) to do作后置定语。
介词填空:
There is no need ______ that sort of thing.
There is no need ______ hurrying; we still have time.
There is no need ______ you to worry about the matter.
for
of
for
experienced adj. 有经验的
在你家谁有经验做饭?
Who is experienced in cooking in your family?
Later you can cover a story and submit the article yourself.
晚些时候,你就可以独自去进行新闻采访并递交稿件了。
submit在这句话种表示“递交;呈送”。如:
He submitted an essay to his tutor.他向导师地叫了一篇论文。
submit还可以表示“屈服;顺从”。如:
They refused to submit to the pressure.
他们据不屈服于压力。
cover
1). She was sent to cover the event.
( )
2). The road was covered with snow.
( )
3). She laughed to cover her worry.
( )
报道,采访
覆盖
遮盖
4). The red army covered about 30 miles a day. ( )
5). Is the money enough to cover the cost of a new shirt?( )
6). The city covers ten square miles.
( )
7). So far this month I have covered ten lessons. ( )
走完多少里路
(钱)够支付
有多少面积
看完多少页书
be eager for sth. (eg. success) 渴望……,很想……
be eager to do sth. 渴望做某事
be eager that clause
他很渴望见到他的女儿。
_____________________________
我们都很想那项工程早点开始。
___________________________________________________________
He was (is) eager to see his daughter
We were eager that the project would start early.
concentrate vt. to give all one’s attention to sth and not to think about anything else.集中
to come or bring together at one place 聚集
※ concentrate on (doing) sth 专注于(做)某事
concentrate the /one’s mind 集中注意力; 聚精会神
concentrate one’s effort/attention on sth 集中力量/注意力于某事
concentration n. 专心;聚集
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Practice:
完成句子:
Stop talking and ________________________ .
( 专心工作 )
b. Nothing ____________________ ( 集中注意力 ) better than the knowledge that you could die tomorrow.
c. I decided to ________________________ ( 全力以赴 ) finding somewhere to live.
concentrate on your work
concentrates the mind
concentrate all my efforts on
concentrate on/upon sth. /doing sth.
___________________________
We should _____________________our study.
Tom is _______________________fishing.
集中精力做……
concentrate on/ upon
concentrating/ed on/ upon
have a nose for 对……嗅觉灵敏, 表示探查或发现某事的能力。此类形象表达法还有:
She has an ear for music.
( )
She has an eye for color and style in clothes. ( )
对……有欣赏能力
对……有眼光
Don’t poke your nose into other people’s business.( )
George turned his nose up at classical music.( )
Tell us what happened. We are all ears.
( )
He turned a deaf ear to what I said.
( )
Don’t tell him anything. He has a big mouth. ( )
管闲事,插手与己无关的事
对……不屑一顾,看不起
正在听着,洗耳恭听
对……听不进去
嘴不严
Only if you ask many different questions will you acquire all the information you need to know.
只有提很多不同的问
题
快递公司问题件快递公司问题件货款处理关于圆的周长面积重点题型关于解方程组的题及答案关于南海问题
,你才能收集到你所需要的信息。
放在句首的状语若由“only+副词”,“only+介词词组”,“ only+状语从句”构成,可引起局部倒装,即把助动词,情态动词或系动词be放在主句之前。如:
Only then did I realize the importance of my health.
只是在那时我才认识到健康的重要性。
Only when the war was over in 1945 was he able to get back to work.
只是在1945年战争结束后他才得以回去工作。
meanwhile
= meantime
= in the meantime
= at the same time
妈妈去购物,与此同时,我打扫房间。
My mother went shopping. Meanwhile,
I cleaned the house.
meanwhile, during, while 词义辨析
meanwhile意为“同时”,与at the same time意思相同。意为“期间”时,是副词,在句中单独做状语。
during 意为“在、、、期间”,是介词,后接名词、代词。
while 意为“在、、、期间”,是连词,引导时间状语从句。
This is a trick of the trade.
这就是我们这个行业的诀窍了。
tricks of the trade(内行人的)诀窍。另外还可以表示吸引顾客,在竞争中取胜的手段或生意经。如:
If you want to start your own car business, you should ask his advice. He knows all the tricks of the trade.
你要想自己做骑车生意,最好向他讨教,他对这行的诀窍完全清醒。
so as to do sth. “为了……” 不能用在句首
= in order to do sth. 可放句子中任何位置
=so that + 从句 = in order that + 从句
句型转换 : I got up at five so as to catch the train
= __________________________
=________________________________________________________
I got up at five in order to catch the train.
I got up at five so that I could catch the train.
我买了些牛肉和蔬菜,为的是给晚饭做个汤
I bought some beef and vegetables _________________________________
I bought some beef and vegetables _________________________________
I bought some beef and vegetables _________________________________
I bought some beef and vegetables _________________________________
so as to make a soup for dinner.
in order to make a soup for dinner
so that I could make a soup for dinner
in order that I could make a soup for dinner
Have you ever had a case where somebody accused your journalists of getting the wrong end of the stick?
get the wrong end of the stick
完全误解,弄错
他完全搞错了。
He _____________________________
___________.
got (held of) the wrong end of the stick
accuse sb. of sth. ________________________= charge sb. with sth.
相同结构的有:
__________________ 提醒某人……
___________________抢了某人……
___________________通知某人… …
_________________ 治愈,治疗某人…
________________警告某人……
因某事指责/控告某人
remind sb. of sth.
rob sb. of sth.
inform sb. of sth.
cure sb. of sth.
warn sb. of sth.
accuse, charge, blame 词义辨析
accuse (指控 )sb. of ( doing ) sth.
charge ( 指控 )sb. with ( doing ) sth.
accuse ( 指责 )sb. of (doing ) sth.
blame ( 责备 )sb. for ( doing ) sth.
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他被警察指控谋杀。
_________________________________.
Tom ____ his boss of having broken his word.
A. blamed B. accused
C. charged D. scolded
He was accused of murder by the police
B
…the man was supposed to bribed him…
be supposed to do 应当,认为必须
be supposed to have done
表示理应做过某事,(但可能没做)
他大约一小时后到。
He___________________ in about an hour.
杰克现在应当完成工作了。
Jack______________________________________________________.
is supposed to be here
is supposed to have finished the work.
Practice – interviewing
You are divided into
two groups to do an
interview, one
interviewer is Zhang
Ziyi, another one is
Yao Ming.
What is your biggest problem to become a reporter? How can you change it?
Assignment
Surf the Internet to find more information about how to become a reporter and you are expected to present it to your classmates in the next class.