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U2 News Media

Speaking and listening

set a new world record on July 11, 2006 with a time of 12.88 seconds

NewsMedia

Radio

Newspaper

TV

magazine

Internet

1.Of the news media, which is the most reliable, why?

2.How are the media different from each other?

TV

be broadcast live / provide people with colorful moving pictures // have to own a TV set

Internet

fast / varieties of information / have different opinions of the same subject / communicate with each other easily //have a computer which is linked to the Internet

be broadcast live / listen to it whenever you like with a portable radio // can’t have visible enjoyment

Radio

magazine

provide people with detailed information on a certain subject / focused on a topic /published weekly / monthly // news comes late

a medium for reading / report the latest news / can be kept for a long time / cheap to buy // can’t express one’s idea freely

newspaper

You are the editors of a newspaper Choose one of the four events you are

going to put in your newspaper and give

reasons

Tropical storm Sanmei, on August 10th 2006,

lashed the country of Cangnan in Zhejiang

Province. About 200 hundred people were

killed and 10 billion Yuan was lost in this

Typhoon.

(L-R) Actors Ge You, Zhang Ziyi, Zhou Xun and Daniel Wu attend a fashion show before the premiere of their latest movie 'The Banquet', directed by China's Feng Xiaogang, in Hong Kong September 12, 2006.

The Banquet

Premiere

Sep. 12, 2006

瑞安三中师生因本校教师坠楼事件游行活动

President Hu meets foreign friends

Useful expressions:

What do you think of…?

I would rather choose …

What’s your opinion?

I don’t think we should choose …

Why do you choose…?

Maybe it would be better to choose …

Perhaps … is more important.

Our readers want to know about …

The man?

Jim Gray

was fired.

Listening

What do his colleagues think of him?

Why was Jim Gray fired by his boss?

Why are they different?

What is the truth?

Why was Jim Gray fired by his boss?

too slow; talk too much;

noisy even wild;

not serious enough;

disturb others; nosy;

rude and say bad things about people;

careless with his money

What do his colleagues think of him?

face difficulties but never give up; careful and take the time to do a job well; find time to speak to others though busy; funny and happy; interested in other people and care about their life and problems; generous;honest