Unit 2  News media（The First Period）

the first period
teaching aims:
1. learn and master the following words and phrases:
  media, reliable, fire, face, difficulty, elect, go up, burn down, injure
2. practise expressing opinion using the following:
  what do you think of…?
  what's your opinion?
  why do you choose…?
  perhaps…is more important.
  i would rather choose.…
  i don't think we should choose…
   maybe it would be better to choose…
  our readers want to know about…
3. talk about news and the media.
4. train the students' listening and speaking abilities.
teaching important points:
1. master the useful words and expressions appearing in this period.
2. train the students' listening and speaking abilities by talking about news and the media.
teaching difficult points:
1. how to help the students understand the listening material exactly.
2. how to help the students finish the task of speaking.
teaching methods:
1. listening-and-answering activity to help the students go through the listening material.
2. individual, pair or group work to make the students finish each task.
teaching aids:
1. a tape recorder
2. a projector
3. the blackboard
teaching procedures:
step i greetings and lead-in
t: good morning/afternoon, class.
ss: good morning/afternoon, miss/ mr. x.
t: sit down, please. being the members of the society, we all cares for/about  what happens around us or even what happens at home and abroad. how can you do so?
ss: by reading newspapers and magazines, watching tv programmes, listening to the radio.
t: are there any other ways? think it over.
ss: by a website.
t: yes. it’s also a way to learn about the world. what do you call these things which help us know about to the world?
ss:新聞媒體
t: in english, we call it news media. today we'll begin to learn unit 2 news media (bb: unit 2 news media). first, let's learn the new words in this period. look at the screen.  
 
(teacher first asks some students to read the words on the screen. correct the ss' mistakes in prononciation. then teacher gives brief explanations. at last, let the ss read and remember them for a while.)
step ⅱ warming up
 t: well, now please open your books at page 9. warming up first. look at each of the pictures and tell me which kind of news media it shows?
ss: the first picture shows a website; the second one shows radio; the third one shows tv programmes; the fourth one shows magazines; the fifth one shows newspapers.
t: quite right!  now, please work in groups of four and discuss the five questions below the pictures. a few minutes later, i’ll cotleet your answers. ok?