Unit1 Good morning!教案 新目標七年級上

period 1: warming up + pre-reading + reading(ⅰ)
teaching aims:
1. to get the students to know more about the newspaper business, especially the reporters.
2. to improve the students’ reading and thinking ability.
3. to practise the students’ skimming and scanning skills.
4. to inform the students of how to conduct an interview.
teaching procedures:
step 1: warming up
• 1. look at the pictures and tell what you want to be in the future.
• 2. pair discussion
a reporter/an editor…works for a newspaper , a magazine or a tv station.
suppose: you are offered a job at today’s deqing, what kind of job would you like to do? (what kind of jobs do they have? )
(preview: cartoonist, critic, sub-editor, foreign correspondent…)
• 3. speaking: types of jobs and what each job involves.
step 2: pre- reading
reporters are very important in making the news because they get the firsthand information and write news stories.
• 1. group discussion: what are the qualities a good news reporter needs to have? (finish the questionnaire and add more if they can– using adjectives)
• 2. further discussion:
1). working hard or working smart, which would you prefer?
2). enthusiasm for the job is the key to success, do you agree? why / why not?
• 3. make a conclusion of the qualities of a good reporter and then raise a question as a lead-in to the reading part: can you imagine your first day at toady’s deqing as a reporter?
step 3: reading
let’s see zhou yang’s first work assignment as a new reporter.
• task 1: listen to the text, try to find out what they are talking about.
a. how to become a good reporter
b. how to cover a story
c. the skills needed to be a reporter and the stages in interviewing somebody.
• task 2: skim through the text and list the questions that zhou yang asked.
1). can i go out on a story immediately?
2). what do i need to take with me?
3). what do i need to remember when i go out to cover a story?
4).what mistakes must i avoid?
5). why is listening so important?
6). how can i listen to answers if i have to write down what he or she is saying?
7). have you ever had a case where somebody accused your reporters of getting the wrong end of the stick?
what do these questions tell us?
---- how to cover a story / how to conduct an interview / the stages in interviewing sb.
• task 3: scan the text, find out the skills necessary to become a good reporter.
• step 4: homework