unit 4 Making the news

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unit 4 Making the news
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Means of Media
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• Sections of a Newspaper
• Overseas news
• Home news
• Business
• Sports
• Entertainment
• Travel
• Art
• Book review
• News critics

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Types of Jobs
reporter editor designer painter printer photograp
her
chief editor deputy editor sub-editor critic
cartoonist correspondent
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Answer the questions by using the words we
learned just now.

• 1. Who writes news stories?

2. Who gives opinions on plays and books?
3. Who decides the content of the newspapers?
4. Who reports from abroad ?
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Pre-reading

• If you want to be a reporter, what qualities
  do you think a good news reporter needs to have?

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Skimming
Read the text in 1 minute, and underline all the
questions Zhou Yang asked.
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Answer questions

• 1. Can Zhou Yang go out on a story alone
  immediately? Why (not)?
• 2. How did Zhou Yang feel on his first day at
  work?
• 3. What mistakes must be avoid?
• 4. Why listening is so important?
• 5. What is the trick of the trade in taking down
  the interviewees words?
• 6. Why did the football player angry?

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Read and answer

• What a new reporter should do on the first
  day?
• 1. The first time he will be sent with an
  ________________ till he have seen what he or she
  does.
• 2. There is no need for him to take ______, as
  he will have a professional ___________ with him.

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• What a reporter needs to remember when going
  out to cover a story?
• 1. He need to be ________. A good reporter must
  have a good ____ for a story.
• 2. He has to listen to the ___________ carefully.
• 3. If necessary, he can prepare a ______ to make
  sure that he gets all the fact straight.

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Can you summarize Zhou Yangs characters
according to the following sentences?
1. Can I go out on a story immediately?
2. What do I need to remember when I go out to
cover a story?
3. What mistakes must I avoid?
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• Can you spot them?
• cover a story
• have a nose for a story
• a trick of the trade
• get the fact straight
• get the wrong end of the stick
• This is how the story goes.
• get a scoop

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• Fill the blank
• As a new reporter, Zhou Yang could not go out
  on a new story immediately until he was
  _______(experience). _______ when he had seen
  what other reporters did _______ he cover a story
  by himself. _______, he would have a
  ______(profession) photographer. Hu Xin, the
  chief ______(edit), also told him how to wrote an
  accurate story. Once a footballer ______(accuse)
  of taking money and an interview was arranged.
  Then the reporter write an article _____
  suggested he _______(be) guilty according to his
  body language. He was very angry and tried to
  stop the newspaper _______(publish) it.

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Make a piece of news in one sentence.
A man was seriously injured in a car accident at
about 7am on the 101 Road due to the heavy fog.
A man
was injured
seriously
at about 7am
on the 101 Road
due to the heavy fog