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Unit 4 Period 1 Welcome to the unit & Reading
【学习目标】
Learning Objectives
1.To read the news report critically and understand the structure and content of it.
2.To use the words and phrases from the text correctly and understand the collocations of weight and try to write one lead.
【学习过程】
Learning activities
目标一:To read about teenagers' relationships with their parents by grasping the theme, outline and details of the magazine article and summarize the main causes and solutions of parent-child tensions.
Activity 1: To read the news report critically and understand the structure and content of it.
Activity 2: Pre-reading
Task 1 Free talk.
1. Do you think senior high school students should pay much attention to their weight? Why or why not?
2. If you are a bit over-weight, how would you lose weight? By going on a diet, exercising in the gym, receiving surgical treatment or taking weight-loss pills?
3. What do you think are healthy ways of losing weight?
Task 2 Look at the title and pictures and predict the content of the article.
(1)Who is the news about?
(2)What happened?
(3)Why?
(4)What do you think of the news title?
Activity 3: Fast reading
Task 1 Listen and answer the following questions below.
1.What's the genre of the text?
2.What's the structure of the text?
Understanding a news report
A news report usually starts with a lead. It gives the most important information about an event. Then the following paragraphs give more detailed information about the event. Some news reports go on to provide background or supporting information.
Task 2 Read the news report again and complete the chart below.
Task 3 Work in pairs and answer the following question.
Why does a news story follow the structure of an inverted pyramid?
Activity 4: Careful reading
Read the news report again carefully and answer the following questions.
1.Why was Jennifer rushed to hospital?
2.What did Laura do when she found out Jennifer was skipping meals?
3.What are some of the dangerous meth