The Fourth Period
            Teaching Aims:
            1. Learn and master the following words: citizen, polluter, arm,
            update
            2. Review the use of the Past Participle.
            3. Train the students integrating skills, especially the writing
            skill.
            4. Learn more about reporters and news reports.
            Teaching Important Points:
            1. Train the students integrating skills.
            2. Help the students write a comparison paragraph between two kinds
            of news media
            Teaching Difficult Point:
            .How to write a better comparison paragraph.
            Teaching Methods:
            1. Asking-and-answering activity to check the students
            understanding of the two reports.
            2. Review method to consolidate the use of the Past Participle as
            Attribute and Predicative.
            3. Individual, pair or group work to finish each task.
            Teaching Aids:
            1. a tape recorder
            2. a projector
            3. the blackboard
            Teaching Procedures:
            Step I Greetings
            Greet the whole class as usual.
            Step II Revision and Lead-in
            T: Yesterday, we learned the use of the Past Participle as Attribute
            and Predicative. Now lets have a revision by doing an exercise on
            the screen
            Complete each sentence using the right form of the verb in brackets.
            1. I had nothing to do. I was         (bore) and lonely.
            2. Jack looked even more        (amaze) than he felt.
            3. The results were very        (disappoint).
            4. I was thanked by the         (satisfy) customer.
            5. The girl          (dress).in red is my daughter.
            6. Last Monday our class went on an        (organise) trip.
            (Teacher asks some students to do it. One student, one sentence.
            Meanwhile, check their answers  with the whole class.)
            Suggested answers:
                1. bored           2. amazed
                3. disappointing    4. satisfied
                5. dressed          6. organised
            T: Besides, weve learned a lot about news media and reporters. Tell
            me which words in the text help us understand the life of a
reporter.
            Ss: record, report, interview, write, reflect, truthfully…
            T: Yes. A reporter must do some interviews, write articles, and
            record and report events. The basic task for a reporter is to report
            and reflect events and opinions truthfully. Is that so?
            Ss: Yes.
            Step Ⅲ Presentation
            T: Today, were going to learn more about the work of reporters.
            First, well read two reports of the same event. Then well write a
            comparision paragraph. Now, lets learn the new words in this
            period. Look at the screen.
             (Teacher deals with the news words as usual. Then play the tape of
            the two reports.)
            T: Now, please listen to the two reports and tell which one you
            think is reported truthfully.
            (After listening.)
            T: Have you understood the two reports?
            Ss : Yes.
            T: Are you able to tell which one is reported truthfully? Any
            volunteer?
            S: Let me try. I think the second report is reported more truthfully
            than the first one.
            T: Why do you think so?