- Aims: Sts practise writing a paragraph about the advantages and disadvantages of one of the mass media. - Ask sts to write a paragraph about the advantages and disadvantages of one [r]
(1)UNIT 7: THE MASS MEDIA
LESSON WRITING I Objectives:1 Education Aims: Advantages and disadvantages of television and mass media. 2 Knowledge:
a General knowledge: Advantages and disadvantages of mass media b Language:
- Language concerning mass media - The present simple tense
3 Skills:
- Reading: read about the advantages and disadvantages of television - Speaking: to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the mass media - Writing: write a about the advantages and disadvantages of the mass media II Anticipated problems Advantages and disadvantages for writing.
III Teaching Aids: board, textbook, chalk. IV Procedures:
Teacher's activities Students' activities 1 Homework checking: (5 mins)
- Ask one st to talk about one of the news stories that he/she is interested in
- Check and give remarks 2 Before you write: (20 mins)
- Aims: to get sts to read about the advantages and disadvantages of television and to help sts to prepare vocabulary and information before they write.
+ Task 1:
- Advantages and disadvantages of television - Explain some new words:
+ 'memorable (adj): easy to remember + en'joyable (adj): pleasant
+ popu'larity (n): the noun of "popular" + be a'ware of (v): realize
+ brain (n): part of the body inside the head + 'violent (adj): fighting, killing, etc
+ inter'fere with (v): get in the way of something
- Ask sts listen to the teacher and repeat , then write these words into their notebooks
- Ask sts some questions to make sure that they understand all the advantages and disadvantages of television
What are the (dis) advantages of television?
- Listen and give remarks + Task 2:
- Divide the whole class into three groups and ask each pair in group to discuss the advantages and
disadvantages of radio, each pair in group discuss those of newspapers, and each pair in group discuss those of the internet
- Ask sts to work in minutes
- Read the table in pairs - Structures:
+ help/encourage someone to something: help us to learn, encourage us to buy
+ make someone/ something +
adjective: make things memorable, make us aware of, make us passive, make people violent
S: Television helps us to learn more
- Work in pairs to discuss
- Some sts stand up to give their ideas * Radio:
+ Advantages:
- It helps us to get updated news and infofmation.
- It helps us to listen to music, dramas, etc.
- It is not harmful to people's eyes. + Disadvantages:
- It is rather boring because we can't see anything.
- The programmes are not very vivid, there are no games and films, etc - Listen to the teacher and take notes - Do the writing task
- Read their writing: (a sample paragraph)
(2)- Listen and give remarks 3 While you write: (10 mins)
- Aims: Sts practise writing a paragraph about the advantages and disadvantages of one of the mass media.
- Ask sts to write a paragraph about the advantages and disadvantages of one of the mass media they have discussed in task
- Move around to conduct the activity 4 After you write: (9 mins)
- Get feedback by asking three sts to read their work aloud
- If there is enough time, T can have sts exchange their writing among sts within a group so that they can check their friend's work and give remarks
5 Homework: (1min)
- Write a paragraph about another types of mass media