Target language eyewitness, opinion, information, stick to, rather than, account for Ability goals Enable the Ss to know how to express opinions of own and justify the situations according to different opinions. Enable the Ss to grasp the main points of news-writing. Teaching important and difficult points Justify the different point of view and make one’s own opinions. Write the news clearly and pithily. Teaching method Discussion, cooperative learning, debating Teaching aids A projector, a computer Teaching procedures: Step I Revision Check the homework and take a dictation. Ask Ss how important it is to get the first source, how important the eyewitnesses are. Step II Warming up Have a debate: In a local fishing competition, a person tells you he / she has caught a fish the size of a small car. It will win him / her first prize at a local fishing competition. But an eyewitness says he / she cheated. He saw the fisherman buying it at a fish shop. Do you believe the eyewitness or the fisherman? Divided students into two groups, and tell the reasons who they support. Step III Group Work Ask students to work in groups of four and play one of the following roles each: CCTV Newsman / woman, Fisherman, Eyewitness, Reporter of Local Evening News. Make a dialogue in four and express their own opinions. Step IV Presentation Ask four of the students to express their own opinions. Step V Writing Task Fill in the form on page 68. List the facts and the opinions. Write about each fact and then write about the opinion. Try to follow the example and make the news clear and pithy or concise. Also let the Ss pay attention to the followings: State the situation of the story in paragraph 1; Set out what happened clearly in Paragraphs2 and 3; State how the story ended and your opinion on what happened in Paragraph 4. Allow the students enough time to work on their writing. (If there is a lack of time, leave the task for homework) A sample version: Fish Story Today is the city’s annual Father’s Day Fishing Competition. Mr. Thompson took part in the fishing competition. He presented a very large and rare fish as big as a small car. Mr. Thompson said, “ It was quite by accident. “ I had a bite on the line. It was this wonderful fish. So, of course, I pulled it out of the water very quickly. He added. However, an eyewitness said he had seen Mr. Thompson earlier in the day buying fish at the fish market. He said, “I saw the fisherman go into the shop and come out with this large, rare fish. “Then he went to the judges and they weighed his fish and told him it was the largest so far , said the witness. Mr. Thompson finally admitted he had bought the fish and had not caught it. He apologized in public and said that he only did it so his son would be proud of him as a fisherman. So it seems that it was Mr. Thompson who was the big fish! Step VI Homework1. Finish the writing work at home. 【查看更多】
