高三英语新闻文章阅读技巧课教案
How can we read news fast and understand better
I. Teaching aims:
a. Language knowledge: languages in news stories
b. Language ability:
Reading: enable Ss to skim for main ideas in the contexts of news reports
enable Ss to scan for implied meanings, etc in the contexts of news reports
Speaking: exchange updated news in class by grasping the main points
orally report one or two pieces of news in class
watch a video and report the story
c. character building: be efficient in reading news stories
II. Key points
a. reading skills for main ideas and intentions
b. news reports writing
III. Difficult points
a. overcome new words & comprehend reading materials
b. in-class discussion
IV. Teaching methods: audio-visual & reading & discussing approaches
V. Teaching aids: TV, computer & reading handouts
Teaching procedures
Step I---Warm-up & lead-in
Brainstorming Ss for their ideas about how to read news stories.
Step II---Sum-up & pre-reading
Sum up the key points in reading a news story on blackboard.
Present the structure of news reporting by analyzing some headlines and leads.
headline 标题
lead 导语 （the most important “w”）
elaboration 解释或阐述性材料
background 背景材料
secondary material 次要材料
Analysis of a news item
Check Ss comprehension by collecting Ss’ answers to some questions:
a. The best title for the report is ___________.
b. The purpose of this news story is __________.
c. The underline word means ________.
Step III---Practice & develop reading skills
Individual work: Passage A/B
Encourage Ss to focus on the Lead
Encourage Ss to give their own explanations for their comprehension.
Step IV---Exchange news over the past weeks
Group work: share news in one or two sentences.
Presentation in class: pick up Ss to present their own news.
Step V--- Watch and discuss & present
Ss watch a video and discuss the report
Ss present a sample report in class
Step VI---Homework
1) Finish off the report writing in about 100 words to hand in.
2) 高考汇编的新闻报道文体阅读P29---35
3)
PAGE
1高三英语新闻文章阅读技巧授课材料
Types of questions for main ideas and writers’ intentions(意图):
1. The best title for the passage is…/ What is the best title for this news story
Which of the following would be the best title for the passage
The title that can best express the main idea of the passage is …
The passage could best be entitled (命名为)…
2. What is the main idea/topic/subject of the passage
What does the passage mainly discuss
This news story is mainly about …
The passage is primarily （主要） concerned （关于） with…
3. The main purpose （目的）of this passage is to …
Which of the following is the author’s main purpose in the passage
Which of the following best describes how the writer feels about…
The author develops his main idea by…
What is the main point the author makes in the passage
The author’s intention in writing this passage is ….
Difference between Narrative Prose (记叙性散文) and News Story
新闻文章与记叙性散文之间的主要区别在于它们的结构不同。
这两类文章都须遵循同样的语法规则, 使用同样的标点符号, 在谴词造句时都必须自己斟酌。
**但记叙性散文突出文章的结尾和故事情节的描述。
**而新闻文章恰恰相反, 将最重要的情节放在最前面。 因此，要了解新闻大意，就可从新闻的标题 （headline），导语（lead）两部分得到；要了解有关具体细节或作者观点的问题，就可从其后各段次要材料中的首句或尾句得到。
下述例子可以说明这一点:
Ordinary Narrative Style (普通记叙性文章)
When the last customer left the Burger Mart at 2490 Cumberland Ave., about 11:30 p. m., Harold R. Long, the manager, locked the front door and went to the office at the rear of the building to prepare the bank deposit（存款） which he always dropped off at the bank on his way home. He left the restaurant about midnight and drove his car to the Westside branch of First National Bank to deposit the 2,866. 03. As he got out of his car in the bank parking at the side of the building, he noticed a man standing in the shadows among some shrubs about 20 feet away. Just as Long reached to pull open the night depository, the man stepped out of the shadows and pointed a pistol (手枪) at him. The man grabbed the canvas bank pouch （包）from Long’s hand and told him to stand still and not make a sound for five minutes. Long said he could hear the man running and as the sound grew faint, he turned around and rushed to his car. Long drove two blocks to a service station where he called police, who are still looking for the robber.
News Story (新闻文章)
A restaurant manager was robbed of 2,866. 03 by a gunman just as he was about to drop the money in a night depository at a bank early this morning.
Harold R. Long, manager of Burger Mart, 2490 Cumberland Ave, told police he had taken the money to the Westside branch of First National Bank at midnight. Long said that just as he was about to drop the money in the night depository the gunman stepped out of the shadows, pointed a pistol at him and grabbed the canvas bank pouch.
Long said that before fleeing on foot, the gunman threatened （威胁）him. Long drove to a nearby service station and called police.
Analysis of a News Item （一则新闻分析）
Questions:
1. The probable title for the report is ____
a. Cripple house owner shot juvenile robber dead
b. Juvenile robber killed breaking into house
2. The purpose of the news story is likely to _____
a. call on the public’s attention to the problem of juvenile delinquency (犯罪).
b. to report a gunshot case which turns out to be an attempted robbery.
3. The underlined word means ______
a. frightened b. inexperienced c. young d. careless
Para. 1
CHICAGO------A 43-year-old cripple who walks with great difficulty shot a robber to death Sunday after taking a gun away from the dead man’s helper when the pair broke into his home.
Para. 2
Police said the cripple, whom they refused to give out his name for his own protection, jumped from his rocking chair, grabbed the 15-year-old helper’s gun, and then seriously wounded Carl Laws, 20.
Para. 3
Laws grabbed the gun back after he was shot and ran for the department at 3939 S. Lake Park Ave., where he fell down on the sidewalk.
Para. 4
Police officer T. V. Minton said the target (目标) of the attempted robbery, who has needed help to walk since a 1990 leg operation, told police the pair broke in by forcing the door open when his wife was out.
Para. 5
Once inside, Laws and the 15-year-old said they were going to rob the man and the couple’s four children, Minton said.
Para. 6
A relative of Laws who was driving by picked him up where he had fallen unconscious (无知觉) on the street and took him to the Michael Reese Hospital where he died.
Para. 7
The juvenile helper also went to the hospital, where he was attacked by Law’s relatives because they mistakenly thought the youth had shot Laws, Minton said.
Para. 8
To stop them from beating him, the 15-year-old shouted out that Laws was shot during a robbery. Police overheard （听到） the youth shouting, caught him and then went to the cripple’s apartment to check the story.
Para. 9
Police said the 15-year-old was not immediately charged (起诉).
Exercises
A
SHIZUOKA (Kyodo) Thousands of Shizuoka citizens were removed from their homes on Tuesday due to a possible leakage of poisonous gas from a paper-making factory.
The city government ordered about 18,000 people living within 1 km of the Tomoegawa Paper Co. factory in the city's Mochimunetomoe area to remove after the company called firefighters around 11:20 a.m. to report the possibility that a tank could begin leaking hydrogen fluoride （氟化氢）.
About 160 people in the immediate area removed and stayed in nearby centers or gymnasiums. The Tokyo-based company ordered its workers to close the factory windows and stay in their rooms.
Local police said there was fear the hydrogen fluoride, which is both poisonous and easily set on fire, could leak from the tank when the temperature within it rose to a level much higher than its usual level of 3000C.
Firefighters cooled the tank down and began looking for the cause of the high temperatures.
1. Which of the following could be the best headline (title) of the news story
a. Order given to remove
b. Possible leakage of poisonous gas
c. Area removing over gas leak fear
d. Paper-making factory leaks poisonous gas
2. The writer reports the story to _________
a. introduce the gas leakage situation in Shizuoka area
b. calm the other citizens in Shizuoka area
c. blame the paper-making factory
d. make the fact known that Shizuoka citizens removed over gas leakage fear
B
KILAUEA, Hawaii (AP)--- Bethany Hamilton was known for her surfing skills on Kauai's North Shore, but now tragedy (灾难) has made her one of the most popular teenagers in the national media. On October 31, while she was on her surf board just off shore, a shark attacked her, biting off her left arm. Fellow surfers got her to shore with a surf leash (带子) to stop bleeding .
Hamilton made her national debut with a series of interviews last week. In one of the first, she told The National Press she will surf again despite her loss. "I can't change it," she said. "That was God's plan for my life and I'm going to go with it."
She's off to a busy start.
Hamilton said she doesn't like interviews, but she added that some good can come out of her story.
"We're not into this for the money," said Tom Hamilton, her father. "But the opportunities (机会) are there and people want to know the story."
Hamilton is the latest victim（受害者） of tragedy to grab the spotlight （媒体爆光）, a place that's been taken up by everyone from Olympic figure skater(花样滑冰) Nancy Kerrigan, injured on the knee, to Aron Ralston, the hiker who cut off his own arm after it was pinned beneath a huge stone.
1. What is the news story mainly about
a. Bethany Hamilton lost her left arm after being attacked by a shark.
b. Bethany Hamilton becomes the most popular teenager in the country.
c. Bethany Hamilton is going to make masses of money out of her tragic (灾难性的) story.
d. Bethany Hamilton, a shark victim, is trying to make her tragedy into fame (名声).
2. Which of the following best describes how the writer feels about Bethany Hamilton’s story
a. Bethany Hamilton is a brave girl fighting against her tragedy.
b. Bethany Hamilton is anther example that wants to turn tragedy into fame.
c. No one else can compare with Bethany Hamilton in the national media.
d. Bethany Hamilton will carry on her busy life as usual.
C
June 10, 2002 - Learn to make movies on your Macintosh computer using digital (数字化的) actors for DVD-Video disks in the wide screen format (格式) with digital surround sound.
The secret to making a motion picture on a personal computer is to use twenty different computer programs in a series... one after the other.
In the motion picture studios of Hollywood, a movie passes through twenty different departments.
To make your own motion pictures, you need to do all 20 steps yourself using 20 different Macintosh programs. The problem is to know which 20 programs to buy and how they can work together. This is what I tell you in Digital Puppet magazine.
1. What is the main topic of the news story
______________________________________________________________
2. What is the author’s intention in writing this news story
______________________________________________________________
D
Underneath the thick smoke now covering all of southern California, thousands of firefighters are still struggling to control the blazes in ten separate areas. Thirteen people are now known to have died, at least nine in the state's biggest fire in San Diego County.
Over a quarter of a million acres and six hundred and fifty homes have been destroyed in what the outgoing governor, Gray Davis, is calling the worst fires in California for a decade. He's asked President Bush to declare the area a zone of emergency (紧急情况). The fires have taken hold because of dry seasons and an infestation of bark beetle (黑甲壳虫虫蛀), which has left millions of dead trees. Emergency services (消防部门) say it may take until Wednesday to bring the fires under control.
1. What does the underlined word mean in the story _______________
2. The story could best be entitled “_____________________________”
