Unit 1 The mass media Integrated skills 课件-2023-2024学年高中英语译林版（2020）选择性必修第二册

B5U1 Integrated skills Alicelee Teaching Objectives: After this section, students should be able to: 1. describe the development of the online news online; 2. analyse the advantages and disadvantages of online news media; 3. write an article about online news media. Discussing online news media Task 1: Fill the blanks with proper words. Task 2: Try to describe what you have read in the text. Task 3: Collect as many useful phrases as you can. The rise of online news media The past decades _________1_________(witness) the rapid development of online news media. In the mid-1990s, due to the _______2_______(popular) of personal computers and increased Internet access, some newspapers began to publish their own digital editions on the Internet. People can read the same content online as is printed in the newspapers every day. By the end of 1999, about 1000 newspapers in China _______3_______(set) up their own online news platforms. At almost the same time news websites with no print editions sprang ____4______. They made a hit ______5_______(immediate) because of a wider range of stories and almost instant updates of news events. Interaction was also encouraged as readers could post their own comments. Then we entered the smartphone era. Nowadays there are hundreds of thousands of news apps and official news media accounts on social media with a totalmembership of over 700 million in China. Smartphone owners are finding ___6____ easier to read news on their mobile devices. They can check the latest news any time at any place. As the chart shows, technology has transformed the way people get news during the past years. From print media_____7_____ broadcast media to online media, reading news has become a __________8_________(personal) and comprehensive experience than ever before. The ___________(various) and accessibility of online news means that the rapid rise of online news media is unlikely _____________ (stop). have witnessed popularity had set up