(Teacher gives the students enough time to do that. At the end, teacher asks for the students' pinions and different opinions are encouraged to express. ) Step V Reporting T: Next, it's your turn to be a reporter. First go back to the speaking activity and look at the events you chose. Then think about the following questions on the screen. 1. How would you report them? 2. What pictures would you use and why? 3. What headlines would you use? Why? And then choose one of the events and write the short newspaper article about it. Finally, compare your articles with your group members. After class, hand in your articles. Are you clear? Ss: Yes. (Teacher goes around the class, giving them directions if necessary. ) Sample reports: No. 1 : In the past few days, three children were killed in our city. The authority is trying every bit of effort to capture the culprit. Parents living in the city should take care of your children to avoid being further hurt. Anyone who can offer the clue, please come to us as soon as possible in order to put the present situation under control. 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. ) (责任编辑:admin) |