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Lead-in
With the development of science and technology, there are so many media to get news from. Can you give us some examples?
Suppose you work for an Internet news website. Your boss has asked you to attend a series of lectures about the ways people watch or listen to the news. You will need to write a report. Now let’s learn some skills which help us to write the report.
Read the skill on P42.
Skills building 1:
reading charts and graphs
1. Can you tell us some of the most popular types of the charts?
2. Can you tell us the definition of them?
3. Now look at the following charts and tell us which type each of them belongs to?
bar chart
bar chart
A bar chart consists of an axis and a series of labeled horizontal or vertical bars that show different values for each bar. The numbers along a side of the bar graph are called the scale.
flow/line chart
flow/line chart
A line chart is a way to summarize how two pieces of information are related and how they vary depending on one another. The numbers along a side of the line graph are called the scale.
pie chart
pie chart
A pie chart is a circle graph divided into pieces, each displaying the size of some related piece of information. Pie charts are used to display the sizes of parts that make up some whole.
Step 1: collecting information
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Listen to the first speech and take notes.
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Listen to the first speech and take notes.
News Suitable sources Reasons
Sports results (1) _____, newspaper Fans don’t need to see pictures.
They want to know (2) _______.
radio
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Listen to the first speech and take notes.
News Suitable sources Reasons
Sports results (1) _____, newspaper Fans don’t need to see pictures.
They want to know (2) _______.
radio
scores
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Listen to the first speech and take notes.
News Suitable sources Reasons
Sports results (1) _____, newspaper Fans don’t need to see pictures.
They want to know (2) _______.
Weather radio, (3) __________ Weather (4) ________all the time. They are of