Procedures

1. Warming up by summing up how a newspaper is made

To begin with let us sum up what we have learned about news making.

　　The chief editor holds a meeting→journalists interviews people and write sotries→photographers takes photographs→photographs are quickly developed→editors check the reports→editors writes the headlines→the newspapers are printed→the news are delivered by train and truck.

2. Reading and translating

Read the text Getting The Scoop and translate it into Chinese paragraph by paragraph. ...

You are to do paragraph 1, please, Xiao Li.

3.Reading and underlining

Next you are to read and underline all the useful expressions or collocations in the passage. Copy them in your notebook after class as homework.

Collocations from Getting The Scoop

be ahead of..., set to do, pass...on to..., polish the style, the chief editor, a good front page article, be processed into... 4. Doing exercises

Now you are going to do Ex. 1 and 2 on page 31 following the article.