News media（The Fourth Period）
no. 2: china beat brazil 5-1 in today's football match. like table tennis in china, brazil is famous for the football, and has won the champion of the world cup many times, having a lot of up erstars in its football team. the beat by china with the unbelievable score 5-1 undoubtly brings an impacting wave to the world. it is an inspiring and exciting thing to us chinese. let's cheer our football players up!
step vi writing
t: now, turn to page 16. it's time for you to write a comparison paragraph. before writing, please read the following instruction. it may be helpful for you to write your paragraph.
(first, teacher asks one students to read through the instruction. then teacher sums up some key points.)
t: from the instruction, we know, to write a comparison paragraph, the first thing you should do is to think about the things you are going to compare before you write; then you should explain how two or more things, places, people or ideas are similar to or different from each other; besides, you should think about what characteristics or features are the most important, and what differences or similarities will help the reader understand the things you are comparing. all these things are important. you must pay special attention to. do you know how to write a comparision paragraph now?
ss: yes.
t: next, please look at the following information about the comparison between websites and newspapers. it may help you write your paragraph. you can read it before preparing for your comparison paragraph. of course, you can choose any other kinds of media to compare. (teacher allows the students enough time to prepare. after they finish it, teacher can show the following checklist for the students to revise what they have written and make some necessary changes. )
does your paragraph have a topic sentence?
is it easy to understand what you are explaining?
do your supporting sentences focus on the main idea?
have you used enough examples?
does your paragraph have a closing sentence?
is your paragraph interesting?
check your spelling.
does each sentence have a subject and a verb?
do the subjects and verbs agree with each other?
sample comparison paragraph:
as two main media, tv and newspaper have much in common. both of them can provide the information needed by people, trying to cater for the different tastes of people on all sides of life. mean while, they make money and survive in the society by selling ads. on the other hand, it is the difference between them that makes them have their own characteristics. tv can “broadcast” the information you want while newspaper can’t tv can provide a series of lively consecutive pictures while newspaper only has printed pictures on it. most of time, tv offers information for free while newspaper costs you money. as to which is convenient, tv is not much as easy as to be taken as newspaper.