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Procedures

1. Warming up

⑴Warming up by discussing

Think like a reporter

Hi, everyone. Today we will learn something about making the news. Suppose you work for China Daily, what types of jobs do you choose? What does it involve? Now in pairs discuss them. Give reasons for your choice.

Types of jobs What it involves Reporter Interviews people or finds out about events from onlookers Photographer Takes photographs of important people or events Editor Makes sure the writing is clear, concise and accurate; checks facts Designer Lays out the article and photographs Printer Prints the newspaper Well done! By the way, have you ever heard "journalist"? Is there any difference between journalist and reporter? Ordinarily speaking, a reporter is a person whose job is to discover information about news events and describe them for a newspaper or magazine or for radio or television. And a journalist is a person who writes news stories or articles for a newspaper or magazine or broadcasts them on radio or television. Maybe in Chinese we can understand it better:

reporter; journalist

reporter＝news reporter"新闻记者"，特指外出采访的记者。

journalist"记者"泛指新闻工作者，如报纸的编辑、采访记者、摄影记者都可以叫journalist。 Now let's do with the pre-reading questions.

⑵Warming up by taking about working for a newspaper

Common sense Yes? No? Your opinions 1. Reporter and journalist mean the same.