一. Teaching aims
1. Familiar with news reporters’ job
2. Help students understand that media have other social functions besides reporting events.
3. Deal with those important words, expressions and difficult sentences.
二. Key points and difficult points
Key points: the function of media; language points
Difficult point: two difficult sentences
三.Teaching aids
slides
四.Teaching procedures
Step 1. Lead-in 5 minutes
T: (choose one student) do you often read newspapers?
S1: yes.
T: which parts of a newspaper do you like best?
S1: entertainment/sports/news….
T: Thank you! Sit down, please. (Ask the whole class) What were we doing just now?
Ss: having an interview.
T: Right! I interviewed S1, and then we call S1…?
Ss: interviewee
T: what about me?
Ss: interviewer
T: Very good! As a reporter, I have got the information I want from S1, and then what will I do?
Ss: Write articles/ talk it with your editor…
T: Now, open your book and turn to page 11. Look at the picture on the right. Guess who are
they and what are they doing?
Ss: They are editors, reporters…they are surfing the net, discussing something…
T: Very good! We know this text is about reporters and newspapers. Then what does the title
“ Behind the headlines” mean?
Ss:标题背后的故事。
Step 2 Fast –reading 6-7 minutes
T: Right! Now, let’s learn this text. First, read the first paragraph, those three questions and the last paragraph quickly. And find out the answers to two questions.
( Slide ) questions: 1.Who do they interview?
2. Do media only tell people what happens?
(4-5 minutes later)
T: stop here please! Who’d like to answer the first question?
S2: Cheng Ying and Zhu Lin
T: Very good! And what about the second question?
S3: no!
Step 3 Careful- reading 31-33 minutes
Part 1. 17-18 minutes
T: Then what other things can media do? Keep this question in your mind, we’ll deal with it later. Let’s learn the first paragraph now. Listen to the tape of the first paragraph, pay attention to the reader’s pronunciation.
(This paragraph is the most difficult one in the text. So I’ll explain it sentence by sentence)
Language points:
1.more than 不仅仅
e.g.: I can do more than this.
2. make sure 确信
e.g. Please make sure all the lights are off before you leave.
3.relate to sb./ sth. 理解或同情某人（某事）
e.g.: Marry find it difficult to relate to children.
Students find it difficult to relate to the life of a scientist.
relate (…) to … 相关的，有关联的
e.g.: This relates to something I mentioned earlier.
If you relate the results to the cause, you will find things are not that simple.
4. switch roles for once 这一次转换角色
e.g.: For once, he broke the rule.
(Slide) help understand the last sentence of this paragraph:
The two reporters agreed to switch roles for once / and be the interviewees rather than the
interviewers / in order to let us know about their work and how the news we read is made.
Part 3. 13-14 minutes
T：Are there any other questions about the first paragraph? Good! Well, let’s go back to that question “what other things can media do?”(slide) Do you want to know?
Ss: yes!
T: Ok, let’s find it. Turn to next page, the last paragraph. (choose a student to read it)
Now, discuss the question with your partner and make a list of it.
(slide)Suggested answers:
1. help solve problems by draw people’s attention to it.
2. help people become interested in important questions.
3. help people understand each other and the world better.
T: All of you have done a good job! Well, let’s solve some difficult sentences. Who’d like to tell us the meaning of the first sentence?
S4: 媒体总是能帮助解决问题，会把人们的注意力吸引到需要帮助的问题上。
T: Very good! For example, we can know many things happened in other parts of China and in other countries from newspapers like “ The People’s Daily”.
Now let’s learn the last sentence, it’s difficult. “leading to a future world” 是现在分词做状语，表示目的。”Where”引导的是定语从句，用来修饰 a future world.
(slide)The result is a better understanding of the world on all sides, leading to a future world /where people from all countries are respected /and different views and opinions are tolerated.
Language points
1.draw attention to 对。。。表示注意
e.g. Reporters write articles to draw people’s attention to pollution.
2.on all sides 方方面面，各方面
四．Homework
T: Today, we have learned the functions of media. We know that media are very important in our life. If you are interested, you can think about what our life will be like without media.
Please preview the rest parts of the text.
五. Blackboard work
1.more than 不仅仅 (new words)
e.g.: I can do more than this. interview
2. make sure 确信 interviewer
e.g. Please make sure all the lights are off before you leave. interviewee
3.relate to sb./ sth. 理解或同情某人（某事）
e.g.: Marry find it difficult to relate to children.
Students find it difficult to relate to the life of a scientist.
relate (…) to … 相关的，有关联的
e.g.: This relates to something I mentioned earlier.
If you relate the results to the cause, you will find things are not that simple.
4. switch roles for once 这一次转换角色
e.g.: For once, he broke the rule.
5．draw attention to 对。。。表示注意
e.g. Reporters write articles to draw people’s attention to pollution.
6.on all sides 方方面面，各方面