5/8 Check here Task 1 Name as many advantages and disadvantages as you can think of. Advantages of reading news on the Internet. 1 2 3... 1 2 3... Disadvantages of reading news on the Internet.
6/8 Check here Task 2 Share your ideas. Do you usually read news in Chinese or English? How can reading news in English improve your English?
7/8 Extra step Did you know? The Top10 News Sites in 2015 1. Yahoo! News 2. Google News 3. Huffington Post 4. CNN 5. New York Times 6. Fox News 7. NBC News 8. Mail Online 9. Washington Post 10. The Guardian Let's try! 1. Do you often search for news on these sites? 2. Can you recommend any other news sites?
8/8 Sum up Key words: browse, means, impactful, audience, first-hand, mislead, virus, mass media, a series of, provide...with..., power off Useful expressions: 1. Newspapers are a good form of mass media. 2. TV and the Internet can provide audiences with first-hand news. 3. It's also nice to power off your PC some days and just read a newspaper.
Extra practice for between lessons 1. Listen to the song ''Virus'' by Heavenly http://music.baidu.com/song/s/70071892f6e0854cb9427?fm=altg_new3 I try to enter deep inside And devour everything All I need is power "To take control till destroying" To see the light of the seven signs And reach the prophecy All I feel is anger inside "To take control till destroying" To break down till the end Just hide away into your mind There is no place for me to die Call me invincible spy! "Fear and panic everywhere" You can pass away I'll keep your soul and all remains I'm vicious caller "Tears and chaos everywhere" "End is not so far away" The dark side of the realm, Get behind The secret of the beast, Get behind You will find my hideout It's too late all is done I just bring bloodshed and cries... Continue...
Extra practice for between lessons 1. Continued... [Chorus:] And the day will come here below When the light will cross my destiny Domination to succeed to the crown Just remember the man you used to be Cause when the virus comes It's time for victory Just die, And bring me all of your mind "To crush the fierce inside" Just die, And bring me all of your mind [Solo: Charley / Oliver / Oliver] That's right we run into the wind No way out as long as you dig the grave To crown we created by human beings Drop in the wild and all over the world We will cross the seven seas The reign of terror, rule supreme... And the day will come here below When the light will cross my destiny [Chorus]
Extra practice for between lessons 2. Listen to the song ''Target Audience'' by Marilyn Manson http://music.baidu.com/song/s/46067a62f90854da15a0?pst=sug Am I sorry your sky went black, put your knives in babies backs? Am I sorry you killed the Kennedy's and Huxley too? But I'm sorry Shakespeare was your scapegoat and your apples sticking into my throat Sorry your Sunday smiles are rusty nails and your crucifixion commercials failed but I'm just a pitiful anonymous And I see all the young believers Your target audience I see all the old deceivers we all just sing their song Am I sorry to be alive putting my face in the beehive? Am I sorry for Booth and Oswald, pinks and cocaine too? I'm sorry you never check the bag in my head for a bomb and my halo was a needle hole I'm sorry I saw a priest being beaten and I made a wish but I'm just a pitiful anonymous Continue...
Extra practice for between lessons 2. Continued... And I see all the young believers Your target audience I see all the old deceivers we all just sing their song we all just sing their song "the valley of death we are free your father's your prison you see" And I see all the young believers Your target audience I see all the old deceivers we all just sing their song you're just a copy of an imitation
Extra practice for between lessons 3. Listen to the song ''Some Sense of Security'' by Saosin http://music.baidu.com/song/3458112?pst=sug So what have we done? With X and O's to mark our way home (home) It seems as though we've forgotten The way we move Can we save ourselves? From the one we're becoming Please monsieur, remember Don't tell me how to get somewhere better Why write with confidence? Why try to save them? We try to not forget It's so much better there Did you think you could make it on your own? It was so much better there So what have you done To make yourself a little bit happier I can feel the vibrations When you said I'd feel nothing I'm giving up, so give it up Please monsieur, remember Don't tell me how to get somewhere better Why write with confidence? Why try to save them? We try to not forget It's so much better there Did you think you could make it on your own? It was so much better there Continue...
Extra practice for between lessons 3. Continued... ((This won't mean anything..)) ((This won't mean anything...)) This won't mean anything This won't mean anything tonight This won't mean anything This won't mean anything tonight Why write with confidence? Why try to save them? We try to not forget It's so much better there Did you think you could make it on your own? It was so much better ((This won't mean anything)) ((This won't mean anything tonight...))
Extra practice for between lessons 4. Read an online newspaper http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/
改变 梦想 English for all Extra practice for between lessons 5. Different Types of Mass Media http://www.buzzle.com/articles/different-types-of-mass-media.html
Extra practice for between lessons 6. Private Browsing - Use Firefox Without Saving History https://support.mozilla.org/en-us/kb/private-browsing-use-firefox-without-history