Unit 2  News media（The First Period）

ss: ok.
t: you can begin now.
 (a few minutes later. )
t: are you ready now?
ss: yes.
t: which group would like to talk about the first question? choose one member of your group to answer the question.
s1: i think tv is the most reliable among the news media. tv consists of a series of lively consecutive pictures. for the people who want to know what is exactly happening, a picture responds better to offer the truth of a fact than the mere words upon a page. it can offer an unique function of seemingly on-the-spot feeling, which is not available to the other media.
t: the second question?
s2. i think tv programmes are easy for most people to understand. radio, can only be heard and sometimes can’t be picked up clearly. newspapers and magazines are only useful for people        who can read. websites have many different pages, but you should be careful to read some of the pages. who can read. website have many different pages, but you should be careful to read some of the pages.
t: the third question?
s3 : i will check other sources.
t: the fourth question?
s4: every morning, the newspaper chief editor and the journalists discuss the main events of the day. reporters are then sent to cover the events. they usually do some interviews and then      check the information. they must work very fast. later in the day, everything is put together at the news desk. then the editors read the stories and make any necessary changes and choose a good title for each story. at last, they print them quickly and deliver them. making a magazine        is more or less the same as making a newspaper. but the articles in a magazine are more like stories, which are written by all kinds of writers. magazines are not published as quickly as       newspapers.
t: the last question?
ss: news broadcast, newspaper, magazine, radio programme, website, report, reporter, editor, interview, write articles…
step ⅲ listening
 t: next, let's come to the listening. we are going to listen to two parts of conversations. the first part is an interview; the second part is a dialogue. now, look at exercise 1: listen carefully to what is said and tick the information you hear in each part. if necessary, i'll play it twice.        (teacher begins to play the tape, and checks the answers after listening. then ask the students to finish the rest of the tasks. )