Step 1 Lead in

With the development of science and technology, there are so many media to get news from. Can you give me some examples?

Suppose you work for an internet news website. Your boss has asked you to attend a series of lectures about the ways people watch or listen to the news. You will need to write a report. Now let's learn some skills which help us to write the report.

Step 2 Skills building 1:

Reading charts and graphs

Can you tell me some of the most popular types of the charts?

Can you tell me the definition of them?

Now look at the following charts and tell me which type each of them belongs to?

The bar chart shows the weight in kilograms of some fruit sold one day by a market. We can see that 52 kg of apples were sold, 40 kg of oranges were sold, and 8 kg of star fruit were sold.

Skills building 2:

Forming more detailed questions

Read the guidelines

1. Start with information that you know and build on it .

2. Ask positive and negative questions. don't just ask about what people like, prefer or choose to do. Also ask what they do not like or do not prefer. For example:

3. Find out why. Once you have the facts, you can try to find out why they are true. This kind of information will be helpful if you need to support or explain the fact you have learned, e.g.

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