您正在看的高中二年级是:NSEFCII-U02(The first period)。

　　I. Brief Statements Based on the Unit

　　The activities of this unit, including Warming-up, Listening,

　　Speaking, Reading and Writing, center on the subject-news and the

　　media, which are connected with our life closely. It provides the

　　students an opportunity to learn the language in using it.

　　By talking about news and the media, the students get more knowledge

　　about them-not only know about the important parts they play in

　　learning about the world, but also the ways they are written and

　　made. The students must be very interested in this subject. This

　　way, they can learn the language points easily and freely. They will

　　not only learn some useful words and phrases about news and the

　　media, but also learn to eXPress opinions.

　　Besides, the study of the Grammar-the Past Participle can help the

　　students use the language more exactly. By finishing each task

　　provided in the textbook and the workbook, the students' skills to

　　use language can be well developed.

　　Ⅱ. Teaching Goals

　　1. Talk about news and the media.

　　2. Practise eXPressing opinions.

　　3. Learn about the Past Participle (1): used as Attribute and

　　Predicative.

　　4. Write a comparison paragraph.

　　Ⅲ. Teaching Time: Four periods

　　IV. Background Information

　　1. RADIO

　　In ancient times the only way that men could send messages from

　　village to village was on foot. When men learned to use the horse,

　　communication became much quicker. However, compared to the modern

　　world communication was still quite slow. Many parts of the world

　　had no knowledge of events in other places. Later, the post was

　　introduced and horse riders carried letters. This meant that

　　communication was further improved. Horses drawn coaches could move

　　people from town to town in quite a comfortable way. At the

　　beginning of the last century the steam train was invented and for

　　the first time really fast communication became possible. Not only

　　could letters be sent easily from one part of a country to another,

　　but travel was made easy, too. At about the same time, steam ships

　　helped communication between countries.

　　The invention of the telegraph in the middle of the last century

　　further increased the speed at which messages could be sent. In this

　　system electrical signals, in code, are sent along metal wires.

　　These signals travel so fast that they could go nearly eight times

　　round the world in one second. A special device is needed to send

　　the code. At the other end another device is used in order to

　　receive the code. By this method messages can be sent over distances

　　of several hundred kilometres. With the invention of the telephone

　　the human voice could be sent over long distances. Because of this

　　the telephone system replaced the telegraph for quick communication

　　over long distances. The telegraph is still used, however, by

　　newspapers in order to send news and for other purposes too.

　　At the beginning of this century radio was invented and in a few

　　years communication was again improved. The main difference between

　　radio and telephone is that radio uses no electrical signals which

　　travel long distances along wires. Instead invisible waves, moving

　　at the same speed as electrical signals, are used. A few years ago

　　there were not many radio stations in the world. Today there are

　　many hundreds of radio stations broadcasting in different languages

　　and in all countries. The invisible radio waves can easily travel

　　from one country to another. This means that listeners in one

　　country can listen to programmes broadcast from another country. In

　　this way information travels from country to country. Radio is often

　　used by policemen to communicate with one another. In addition,

　　police forces in one country can communicate with those in other

　　countries in order to catch criminals. Ships at sea use radio so

　　that they know exactly where they are. Aeroplanes use radio for the

　　same reason and this makes it easier for them to find their way from

　　place to place.

　　In the modern world there are many methods of communication. As well

　　as radio there is television, for example. This enables information

　　in the form of a picture to be broadcast from one place to another.

　　Radio is often used as part of a telegraph system where distances

　　are very large. Of the many modern methods of communication, radio

　　probably remains the most important.

　　2. How the Program Is Broadcast?

　　We turn on the radio and a program comes to us from a

　　broadcasting station miles and miles away. We know that words and

　　music themselves haven’t traveled all that distance through space,

　　but something certainly is bringing the program from the station.

　　What is this silent carrier?

　　The answer is radio waves. We can not see radio waves or feel

　　them or even hear them. In fact, nobody knows exactly what they are.

　　But we do know that they are made by electricity, and we have

　　learned how to use them.

　　At the broadcasting station people talk or sing, instruments (乐器)

　　play, doors slam(砰) ,and all of these make sound waves. The sound

　　waves reach the microphone, and here they are changed into

　　electricity. Then from a tall tower called the broadcasting aerial

　　(天线) ,electricity sends radio waves. The waves travel in every

　　direction, and some of them reach our radio aerial. Now a wonderful

　　thing happens. The radio waves start an electricity current (电流) in

　　our aerial like the one that was first made in the broadcasting

　　station. Finally, the loudspeaker in our set changes electricity

　　into sound, and we hear the program.

　　The First Period

　　Teaching Aims:

　　1. Learn and master the following words and phrases:

　　media, reliable, fire, face, difficulty, elect, go up, burn down,

　　injure

　　2. Practise eXPressing opinion using the following:

　　What do you think of…?

　　What's your opinion?

　　Why do you choose…?

　　Perhaps…is more important.

　　I would rather choose.…

　　I don't think we should choose…

　　Maybe it would be better to choose…

　　Our readers want to know about…

　　3. Talk about news and the media.

　　4. Train the students' listening and speaking abilities.

　　Teaching Important Points:

　　1. Master the useful words and eXPressions appearing in this period.

　　2. Train the students' listening and speaking abilities by talking

　　about news and the media.

　　Teaching Difficult Points:

　　1. How to help the students understand the listening material

　　exactly.

　　2. How to help the students finish the task of speaking.

　　Teaching Methods:

　　1. Listening-and-answering activity to help the students go through

　　the listening material.

　　2. Individual, pair or group work to make the students finish each

　　task.

　　Teaching Aids:

　　1. a tape recorder

　　2. a projector

　　3. the blackboard

　　Teaching Procedures:

　　Step I Greetings and Lead-in

　　T: Good morning/afternoon, class.

　　Ss: Good morning/afternoon, Miss/ Mr. X.

　　T: Sit down, please. Being the members of the society, we all cares

　　for/about what happens around us or even what happens at home and

　　abroad. How can you do so?

　　Ss: By reading newspapers and magazines, watching TV programmes,

　　listening to the radio.

　　T: Are there any other ways? Think it over.

　　Ss: By a website.

　　T: Yes. It’s also a way to learn about the world. What do you call

　　these things which help us know about to the world?

　　Ss:新闻媒体

　　T: In English, we call it news media. Today we'll begin to learn

　　Unit 2 News media (Bb: Unit 2 News media). First, let's learn the

　　new words in this period. Look at the screen.

　　(Teacher first asks some students to read the words on the screen.

　　Correct the Ss' mistakes in prononciation. Then teacher gives brief

　　eXPlanations. At last, let the Ss read and remember them for a

　　while.)

　　Step Ⅱ Warming up

　　T: Well, now please open your books at Page 9. Warming up first.

　　Look at each of the pictures and tell me which kind of news media it

　　shows?

　　Ss: The first picture shows a website; the second one shows radio;

　　the third one shows TV programmes; the fourth one shows magazines;

　　the fifth one shows newspapers.

　　T: Quite right! Now, please work in groups of four and discuss the

　　five questions below the pictures. A few minutes later, I’ll cotleet

　　your answers. OK?

　　Ss: OK.

　　T: You can begin now.

　　(A few minutes later. )

　　T: Are you ready now?

　　Ss: Yes.

　　T: Which group would like to talk about the first question? Choose

　　one member of your group to answer the question.

　　S1: I think TV is the most reliable among the news media. TV

　　consists of a series of lively consecutive pictures. For the people

　　who want to know what is exactly happening, a picture responds

　　better to offer the truth of a fact than the mere words upon a page.

　　It can offer an unique function of seemingly on-the-spot feeling,

　　which is not available to the other media.

　　T: The second question?

　　S2. I think TV programmes are easy for most people to understand.

　　Radio, can only be heard and sometimes can’t be picked up clearly.

　　Newspapers and magazines are only useful for people who can

　　read. Websites have many different pages, but you should be careful

　　to read some of the pages. who can read. Website have many different

　　pages, but you should be careful to read some of the pages.

　　T: The third question?

　　S3 : I will check other sources.

　　T: The fourth question?

　　S4: Every morning, the newspaper chief editor and the journalists

　　discuss the main events of the day. Reporters are then sent to cover

　　the events. They usually do some interviews and then check the

　　information. They must work very fast. Later in the day, everything

　　is put together at the news desk. Then the editors read the stories

　　and make any necessary changes and choose a good title for each

　　story. At last, they print them quickly and deliver them. Making a

　　magazine is more or less the same as making a newspaper. But

　　the articles in a magazine are more like stories, which are written

　　by all kinds of writers. Magazines are not published as quickly as

　　newspapers.

　　T: The last question?

　　Ss: News broadcast, newspaper, magazine, radio programme, website,

　　report, reporter, editor, interview, write articles…

　　Step Ⅲ List