Period3Using LanguageUnit 4 Making the newsPeriod 3A sample lesson plan for Using Language(Getting the scoop)IntroductionLanguage is learned to be used in and for communication. So in this period we shall have the students, after warming up by summing up how a newspaper is made, read and translate a passage entitled Getting the scoop, do exercises and listen. The teaching ends by students acting a text playObjectives To help students read the passage “Getting the scoop on page 30 To help students use the language by listening, speaking and writing as wellProcedures1. Warming up by summing up how a newspaper is madeTo begin with let us sum up what we have learned about news making.The chief editor holds a meetingjournalists interviews people and write sotriesphotographers takes photographsphotographs are quickly developededitors check the reportseditors writes the headlinesthe newspapers are printedthe news are delivered by train and truck.2. Reading and translatingRead the text Getting The Scoop and translate it into Chinese paragraph by paragraph. You are to do paragraph 1, please, XiaoLi.3.Reading and underliningNext 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 Scoopbe ahead of, set to do, passon to, polish the style, the chief editor,a good front page article, be processed into4.Doing exercisesNow you are going to do Ex. 1 and 2 on page 31 following the article. 5.ListeningFor listening turn to page 31 and be ready to do Ex. 1 and 2. 6.ActingNext we are going to practice making appointments in pairs.7. Closing down by acting a text playTurn the article My First Work Assignment into a text play. Choose your part and rehearse for the School Art Festival next month.资