Listening in
I. Time Allotment
2 periods
II.Teaching Objectives and Requirements
1. Develop the Ss’ awareness of performing a news report;
2. Ask Ss to remember useful words and expressions;
3. Strengthen Ss’ ability to focus on university news;
4. Provide Ss some information about how to give a talk.
III. Teaching Procedures
News report
Step1 Provide students information about " anti-paparazzi law", "celebrity", "Supereme Court" and so on.
Step 2 Detailed study of the news.
Step 3 Summarize the news report.
Passage 1
Step 1 Predicting task
1. Look at the picture and guess what is the relationship between two people.
2 What is going on in the pictures?
Step 2 Go through the vocabulary list and students can be familiar with them.
New words
fire brigade消防队
cookern. 炊具,炉灶
repaintv.重漆,重画 v.重新绘制
kitchenn. 厨房
unitn. 单位, 单元
Step 3 Detailed study of the text.
A. Listen to Passage 1 and match the answers with those questions.
B. Work in the groups of three and role play a college News interview.
Student A is a news reporter who will conduct a short interview with two students, B and C, about accident.
Procedures
Introduces B and C as students in the accident …
A asks B and C three main questions: “What exactly is the accident?” “Can you tell us what causes the accident?” “Are there any victims in the accident?”
thanks B and C …
B and C: give the best answers you can, based on the information you learn and its implication and also your experiences.
Passage 2
Step 1 Warming-up activity
Ask students to talk about the reality TV programmes and their favorite ones.
Step 2 Go through the vocabulary list and students can be familiar with them.New words
panel n. (电视等)专题讨论小组
addicted adj. 沉溺于的,有毒瘾的
human interest n. 人情味
fascinating a. 吸引人的
property programme n. 房地产节目
do up 维修,装修
factor n. 因素,因子 vt. 把…因素包括进去 vi.作为因素
humiliatev. 使...丢脸,使...蒙羞,屈辱
deny vt. 否认, 拒绝, 反对, 克制
Step 3 Detailed study of Passage 2
Step 4 Developing critical thinking
Group discussion:
The whole class forms three groups and each group chooses one questions to answer.
1. What do you think “standards on reality shows can be pretty low”?
3 What do you think about reality shows? Do you like it? Why or why not?

