Lesson 9

A newswebsite is not as personal as a TV news show.

eading

arming up

ractising

Warm-up:

1. Can you tell me some modern media?

2. Can we get news from them?

TV

newspaperradio

Internet

news

The news is recent.

The news is up to date.

The news websites must update the news

every day.

There are many news channels today.

A TV news program is personal.

Some words for news

(that not happen long ago)

(all the programs in the channels are about news)

(make the news up to date )

(the latest)

(made for persons)

Pre-reading

Complete the form

A TV news show

A news websites

Which do you like?

How often do you look at it?

How do you like it?

tick one you like

every day (once a day)

twice a day

recent; up to date; good video; personal and so on

recent; convenient and so on

1.Read one by one.

2.Give the right answer.

a. Find out general sentence.

b. Find out how to support it.

c. Find out the conclusion.

Predicting (What is the text about?): Choose one you like.

1. The text is about the advantages of a TV news show and a news websites.

2. The text is about the disadvantages of a TV news show and a news websites.

3. The text is about the advantages and disadvantages of a TV news show and a news websites.

Tell me why you choose it. Which is enough?

While-readingQuickly skim through the reading♦ Checking predictions: Were your predictions right?♦ To finish 1.2

Let’s compare two types of news.

Advantages of TV news

Disadvantages of TV news

Advantages of the internet news

Disadvantages of the internet news

It’s hard to say which is better.

♦ Setting up the Framework: What do you think is the main prupose each paragraph in reading?

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

Reading for Details:

♦ To fill the blanks in the text.

♦ Group Work( each group has four students) 1. Each group chooses one paragraph from 2nd to 6th paragraph 2. Read one by one and understand it. 3. Find out the points about the advantages and disadvantages of TV news or news websites. (pay attention to the sentences with the same meaning.) 4. Say them out one by one before class.

1. We can choose news on TV.

2. People don’t like TV because the pictures and sound are not better.

3. TV news is as recent as the internet news.

4. We can see TV news at any time.

5. People don’t like the ads on TV.

or

can’t choose news

like are

not as recent as

at certain time

Answer the questions:

1. When can you see the news on the internet?

2. Is the news on the internet always recent?

3. Why do you think news websites are convenient(方便的 )?

4. What do you think the sound and video on the internet?

5. Do you like the ads on websites?

6. Which one is better, a news websites or a TV news show?

You can see the news on the internet at any time.

Yes, the news on the internet is always recent.

Because we can

The sound and video are not so good as what we can see on TV.

No, I think most people don’t like it.

It’s hard to say.

move from one news site to other sites with similar information.

see them at any time.

similarities

differences

recent

at certain time

can choose the news

can’t choose the news

sound

personal

video

TV news

news websites

can’t dicuss with others

at any time

can discuss with others

But TV news is not as recent as the internet news.

Make sentences like this.

Have it changed?

Discussion:

Which do you think important for news?

If you work for a TV news program, how can you make people enjoy your program?

Then how does a news websites do?

How to show your advantages and make

up the disadvantages

♦ see the real people♦ get the news as quickly as possible ♦ listen to others’ opinions♦ discuss with others

Words in the context: match them

advantage

TV news show

news channel

your comments

too large to open

similar

TV news program

good condition

all the programs in the channel are news

so large that … can’t open

your opinions

like sth but not the same

Practice 1

♦Directions:

1. Make an interview about how do people think the news on the paper and the news on the radio.

words and expressions:

recent; up to date; personal; sound; convenient

Do you often read newspapers?

Do you think it convenient?

Is news in newspapers recent?

Can you choose news?

Why do you like reading it?

2. Try to make a table about their similarities and differences.

3. When you finish, look at others’ tables and compare them.

news in newspapers

news on the radio

similarities

differences

Practice 2

Write a short passage about news in newspaper and news on the radio. Please compare them.

Directions:

1. Using the words and sentences you learned in class.

2. Practice 1 is a plan for you.

3. The text is a model for you.