《英语》（九年级上册）
Unit 6 TV programmes
Study skills
I. Teaching aims and learning objectives
By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:
learn about the characteristics of the newspaper headlines and articles;
learn to read a newspaper;
learn to find out the key information from the article in a newspaper.
II. Teaching contents
How to read a newspaper.
III. Focus of the lesson and predicted area of difficulty
How to get the topic of each article from the headline;
How to find out the key information from the article.
IV. Teaching procedures
Step 1 Lead-in
1. Show the students some newspapers
T: Do you like reading newspapers? What information can you get from a newspaper?
S: The up-to-date news.
2. Show a newspaper to them
T: When you read a newspaper, what attracts you first, the headline or the article?
S: The headline.
T: Why?
S: We can know the topic of each newspaper article from the headline.
【设计意图：通过图片和free talk引入主题，把学生的注意力先引到headline上来。】
Step 2 Presentation (how to read headlines)
1. Show some headlines
T: Look, here are some headlines from a newspaper. To save space, some words are left out. Try to guess the general idea of each article from the headlines.
① Driver killed, eight hurt in bus crash
Can you complete the headline?
S: The driver was killed, and eight were hurt in a bus crash.
② Cat show held in Shanghai
S: A Cat show was held in Shanghai.
③ Xi’an travel tips
S: Here are some Xi’an travel tips.
2. Compare the headlines with the sentences and find out the rules.
T: Let’s compare the headlines with the sentences. What kinds of words are left out? Can you work out the rules?
S: Words like a/an/the, do/does/did, the verb be and and/but/or are left out.
T: What tense do these headlines use?
S: The present tense. After learning about the topic of each article, we can decide which newspaper article to read.
【设计意图：通过对于headline的分析与对比，引导学生发现其中的规律，为下一步的文章阅读做好铺垫。】
Step 3 Presentation (how to read an article)
Show an article to the students
T: Here is an article for you. Look at the headline. Can you complete it?
S: A popular poet passes away.
T: Can you ask questions about the headline?
S: Who was the poet? / When did she die? / Where did she die? / What happened to her? / How did she die?
T: Read the article quickly. Try to find out the answers to these questions.
S: ....
T: Where can we find the answers to these questions?
S: In Paragraph 1.
T: So you can see newspapers use a special style of writing. The words like who, what, when, where, why and how always come first. The details come next, from the most important details to the least important ones.
【设计意图：鼓励学生对标题提问题，并通过阅读发现报纸文章写作的特殊形式，在潜移默化中习得本课的重点。】
Step 4 Practice
1. Tips on reading a newspaper
T: Many students often read English newspaper articles in a wrong way. They pay more attention to looking up the words, which makes them read slowly.
How can we read newspaper articles quickly and efficiently?
How can we get as much information as possible in the shortest time? Here are some tips for you. But some of them are wrong. Let’s have a discussion and choose the correct ones.
Tips: a. Read the headlines carefully.
b. Ask questions like when, where, who, what, why and how about the headline and guess what the article may be about.
c. Pay no attention to the pictures in a newspaper.
d. Look at the pictures and information in any “boxes”. They also give an idea of the main topic in the article.
e. Read the article carefully and don’t miss every new word.
f. Skim through the rest of the article.
g. Look up the word in a dictionary whenever you meet one.
h. Use the context to guess the meaning of any words you don’t know.
S: We should choose a, b, d, f and h.
【设计意图：通过小组讨论，选择合适的阅读策略，总结提炼之前所学的内容，为下一个任务做好准备。】
2. Choose a headline, ask questions about it and answer them.
T: Here are some headlines from a newspaper. If I want to learn about the recent missing plane, which article should I read?
S: Flight from Indonesia to Singapore goes missing
T: Can you ask questions about the headline?
S: ...
T: Read the article quickly and try to find out the answers.
S: ...
T: If I want to learn about the accident in the Bund in Shanghai, which article should I read?
S: Shanghai copes with trauma
T: Can you ask questions about it?
S: ...
T: Read the article quickly and try to find out the answers.
【设计意图：通过推荐阅读内容的任务，帮助学生将之前所学的阅读技能运用到实际的阅读情境中，进一步巩固强化之前的所学的内容。】
3. Write a headline according to the article.
T: Here is a newspaper article. Its headline is missing. Can you help the reporter write a headline? Let’s have a discussion.
S: ...
T: Yes, the headline can be 3 dead, 14 injured in NE China warehouse collapse.
【设计意图：进一步引导学生以新闻记者的身份来撰写新闻标题，训练他们的总结概括能力。】
Step 5 Conclusion
T: Remember that reading is a good habit. It’s best to read the newspaper when everything else is finished and in its place. Most newspapers are written at a very low reading level in order to attract more readers. Don’t be afraid of reading them any more. Remember that knowledge is power.
【设计意图：建议学生培养良好的阅读习惯，为终身学习和终身阅读打好基础。】
V. Homework
1. Read some newspaper articles.
2. Recommend some articles to your parents and friends.
课件16张PPT。Unit 6 TV programmes Study skillsthe up-to-date newsheadlinearticletopic of the article:__________________Driver killed, eight hurt in bus crashThe Driver was killed,
and eight were hurt in a bus crash.Cat show held in ShanghaiA cat show was held in Shanghai.Xi’an travel tipsHere are some Xi’an travel tips.Heavy fog delays flights in XinjiangNew artist sweeps American Music Awardsa/ an / the,
do/ does / did,
the verb be,
and / but / orthe present tensePopular poet passes away
Susan Hunter a poet whose poems were loved by millions, died of cancer on Tuesday in London. She was 73.
Ms Hunter wrote hundreds of poems. They were mostly about home, family and life in the countryside. People around the country grew up listening to her poems on the radio, and her books have always been popular. She was also famous for helping other young poets get their start, and she taught writing at universities.Awhowhenwherewhathowwho, what, when, where, why and how Most important
Least
importantHow can we read newspaper articles
quickly and efficiently?
How can we get as much information
as possible in the shortest time? Read the headlines carefully. b. Ask questions like when, where, who, what, why and how about the headline and guess what the article may be about. c. Pay no attention to the pictures in a newspaper. d. Look at the pictures and information in any “boxes”. They also give an idea of the main topic in the article. e. Read the article carefully and don’t miss every new word. f. Skim through the rest of the article. g. Look up the word in a dictionary whenever you meet one.
h. Use the context to guess the meaning of any words you don’t know.
Flight from Indonesia to Singapore goes missingUnsafe pork enters into 7 provincesShanghai copes with trauma Flight from Indonesia to Singapore goes missing
An AirAsia flight QZ8501 from the Indonesian city of Surabaya to Singapore lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday at around 6:17 a.m. local time.
Plane is carrying 162 people—155 Indonesians, three South Koreans, one French, one Malaysian, one Briton and one Singaporean.
AirAsia has established an emergency call centre. The number is +622129850801.
Plane requested to deviation due to bad weather before contact was lost.whenwherewhat...Flight from Indonesia to Singapore goes missingUnsafe pork enters into 7 provincesShanghai copes with trauma Shanghai copes with trauma
Twenty-nine people remained hospitalized on Friday after a stampede at the Bund, a well-known tourist site in Shanghai, that killed 36 others on New Year's Eve.
Two of those being treated were admitted on Thursday afternoon, the day after the tragedy. Twenty people have been discharged, municipal health authorities said.
But 10 people are seriously injured, four of them in critical condition.whenwherewhathow many... Three firefighters are dead and another 14 are injured in a warehouse collapse in Harbin city of North-east China’s Heilongjiang Province, according to China Central Television (CCTV).
At least one firefighter remains buried at the collapse site, said Song Xibin, the city mayor.
Song said that local rescue forces are continuing rescue efforts._____________________________3 dead, 14 injured in NE China warehouse collapse discussion Remember that reading is a good habit. It’s best to read the newspaper when everything else is finished and in its place.
Most newspapers are written at a very low reading level in order to attract more readers. Don’t be afraid of reading them any more. Knowledge is power.
—Francis Bacon Homework
1. Read some
newspaper articles.2. Recommend
some newspaper
articles to your
parents and
friends.
