Unit4 Make the news

• Objectives:

• Know about the news and journalist

• Read the passage and use the reading skills to acquire information as soon as possible

• Learn some useful words, phrases and sentence structures.

Question

Where can we get the information?

newspaper

internet

radio

magazine

TV programmes

Questions

How many different kinds of jobs do newspapers How many different kinds of jobs do newspapers have?have?

What are they?What are they?

Look at the following pictures, and guess what they are?

Reporters/journalists

Who interviews people and writes newsWho interviews people and writes news stories?stories?

Chief editor

Who is in charge of the newspaper?Who is in charge of the newspaper?

Photographer

Who takes photos of important people orWho takes photos of important people or events?events?

designers

Who designs each section of the paper?

printer

Who prints the newspaper?Who prints the newspaper?

editor deputy editor

sub editor

critic

cartoonist

correspondent

More jobsMore jobs

编辑副主编审校编辑评论员漫画师通讯员

• If you want to be a reporter, do you think what qualities a good news reporter needs to have?

Very Very importantimportant

ImportantImportant Not very Not very importantimportant

1 Higher level of 1 Higher level of educationeducation

□□ □□ □□

2 Work experience2 Work experience □□ □□ □□3 Good communication 3 Good communication skillsskills

□□ □□ □□

4 Curious, active 4 Curious, active personalitypersonality

□□ □□ □□

5 Hard-working5 Hard-working □□ □□ □□6 6 Enthusiasm Enthusiasm for the jobfor the job □□ □□ □□77 □□ □□ □□88 □□ □□ □□

The conversation may like this:

• A: Do you think the higher level of education is important for a journalist?

• B: No, I don’t think so. / Yes, I think so./ I think it’s OK./ No, I don’t think it is important… Do you think the work experience is important for a journalist?

• … (what else )

Ability to work in a team

Prepared to work long hours

Very Very importantimportant

ImportantImportant Not very Not very importantimportant

1 Higher level of 1 Higher level of educationeducation

□□ □□ □□

2 Work experience2 Work experience □□ □□ □□3 Good communication 3 Good communication skillsskills

□□ □□ □□

4 Curious, active 4 Curious, active personalitypersonality

□□ □□ □□

5 Hard-working5 Hard-working □□ □□ □□6 6 Enthusiasm Enthusiasm for the jobfor the job □□ □□ □□77 □□ □□ □□88 □□ □□ □□

My First Work Assignment “Unforgettable,” says new

journalist

Step1-----Prediction

Read the first part to get the main idea of the passage.(1’)

The passage is about a ___________ between ________ and ____________ on the ____ day of his work, which was to strongly ______________ as a journalist.

conversation Zhou Yang

his boss Hu Xin first

influence his life

Read the questions raised by ZY, and divide then into 3 sections.

(3mins)

Step2___skimming( 跳读 )

Underline the questions brought up by Zhou Yang find out the accurate answers:1.Can I go out onon a story immediately?2.What do I need to take withwith me?3.What do I need to remember when I go out to covercover a story?4.What should I keep in mindkeep in mind?5.Why is listening so important?6.How can I listen carefully while taking notestaking notes?7.Have you ever had a case where somebody accusedaccused your reporters ofof getting the wrong end of the stick?

What’re the questions talking about?

• Question 1

• Question 2

• Question 3

• Question 4

• Question 5

• Question 6

• Question 7

• How to work in a team

• (before)

• How to get an accurate story

• (during)

• How to protect a story from accusation

• (after)

The quality

1.1.Where did the conversation happen?Where did the conversation happen?

2. Who were talking?2. Who were talking?

3. What does the reading 3. What does the reading passage mainly talk about? (a passage mainly talk about? (a multiple choice)multiple choice)

At the office of a popular English newspaper.

Zhou Yang and his new boss Hu Xin.

Step3__fast readingStep3__fast reading（快读，获取基本信息）（快读，获取基本信息）

4. What does the reading passage mainly4. What does the reading passage mainly talk about?talk about?

A.A.The skills necessary to become a good The skills necessary to become a good reporterreporter

B.B. The skills necessary to become a good The skills necessary to become a good photographerphotographer

C.C.How to conduct a good interviewHow to conduct a good interview

D.D.Being carefully in the new environmentBeing carefully in the new environment

• Read the passage carefully. This time you need to do 2 things:

• （ 15 mins）

Step4__careful reading

1.Underline the useful expressions

• be to do

• an assistant journalist

• an assistant (to)

• submit the article

• professional photographer

• take photographs

• have a “nose” for

• inform sb. of sth.• keep sth. In mind• miss the deadline ( 反 meet)• a trick of the trade• get the facts straight• this is how the story goes.• score goals• deny doing• be supposed to do• demand damages• a scoop

• 1.which of the following statements are true?

• A. It is usual for a new journalist to cover a story.

• B. It’s necessary for ZY to take a camera with him.

• C. ZY doesn’t know photography at all.• D. A journalist should have a strict sense

of time.

2.Decide the true answer

• 2. According to the passage, we can learn that___.

• A. The first work assignment is meaningless for Z Y.

• B. people take up the interview will always tell the truth.

• C. when conducting an interview, the journalist should talk more than listening.

• D. it’s useful for a journalist to use a recorder to protect himself.

3. According to HX, what can we know___.

A. The footballer admitted taking money.

B. the footballer tried to keep us from publishing the article, and he succeeded.

C. HX have ever been accused of getting the wrong report.

D. the footballer lost the game by accident.

• 注定做 sth，必将做

• 助理记者• ……的助理• 提交文章• 专业摄影师• 拍照• 对……敏感的嗅觉

• be to do

• an assistant journalist

• an assistant (to)

• submit the article

• professional photographer

• take photographs

• have a “nose” for

• 通知某人某事• 记在心里• 错过截稿日期• 行业技巧• 真相大白• 故事是这样的。• 进球• 否认做某事• 被认为做某事• 索要赔偿• 独家新闻

• inform sb. of sth.• keep sth. In mind• miss the deadline ( 反 meet)• a trick of the trade• get the facts straight• this is how the story goes.• score goals• deny doing• be supposed to do• demand damages• a scoop

• 1.Can I go out on a story immediately?

• on 后接名词，与 come, go 等动词连用，可表 ____________ ，表示 ____________

• =go out to cover a story

• 我们决定这个夏天去北戴河海边游玩。• We have decided to

_____________________ the seaside in River Beidai this summer.

目的目的 去做某事去做某事

go on a visit togo on a visit to

Difficult sentences

• 2.later you can cover a story.

• 1). She was sent to cover the event. ( )

• 2). The road was covered with snow. ( )

• 3). She laughed to cover her worry. ( )

报道，采访报道，采访

覆盖覆盖

遮盖遮盖

• 3.You’ll find your colleagues very eager to assist you, so you may be able to concentrate on photography later if you’re interested.

• 1 ） find+ 宾 + 宾补（形容词短语）• 2 ） be eager for sth. 渴望……• be eager to do sth. 渴望做某事• be eager that 从句• 3 ） assist sb. with sth./ in doing

sth. 帮助

• 4.Not only am I interested in photography, but I took an amateur course at university to update my skills.

• Not only…but also 引导的并列句 , 如 not only 位于句首 , not only 所在句倒装。

• Not only will I go, but also I will take my parents there.

• 5. 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. ( )

对对…………有欣赏能力有欣赏能力

对对…………有眼光有眼光

• 6.Have you ever had a case where somebody accused your reporters of getting the wrong end of the stick ？

• 译：____________________________________________________________________________

• 1)case/situation/stage/point/condition/ activity 作先行词，关系词在定语从句中作状语时，常用 where 引导，译为到了某种地步，在某种境况中。

你有没有遇到过这种情况：别人控告你的记者，说他的报道失实呢？

7. 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 I got up at five in order to catch the in order to catch the train.train.

I got up at five I got up at five so that I could so that I could catch the train.catch the train.

discussion

After reading the passage, what is important for a journalist according the passage? Do you agree with it?