(
课件网) Lesson Five The Facts July 28,2018 Warm- up Activity 【Topics for discussion】 What do you know about the work of a journalist 2. What do you think are the most important qualities for a journalist Lesson 5 The facts 【Listening Comprehension】 Question: What was the consequence of the editor's insistence on facts andstatistics A: The journalist was arrested and sent to prison. Lesson 5 The facts 【Fast Reading】 Questions: 1. how do editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes 2. what did the editor instruct the journalist to find out after reading the first sentence 3. Why was the editor getting impatient 4. why hadn’t the journalist faxed sooner 5. how many steps led to the president’s palace 6. when had the journalist been arrested Lesson 5 The facts 【New words and expression 生词和短语】 Editor n. a person who checks and corrects texts before they are published 编辑 Edit vt. to prepare a book 编辑 ; Edition n.编辑 -- edit magazine, edit newspaper extreme n.极端 go to extreme(s) to do: do sth in a way considered unacceptable, unreasonable, or foolish 做某事走极端 eg. He went to extremes to say that his girlfriend was the most beautiful in the world. go from one extreme to the other 从一个极端走向另一个极端 statistics n. quantitative data on any subject 统计数字 journalist n. a person whose job is to collect news and write about it for newspapers, magazines新闻记者 reporter n.(屏幕上播报新闻的电视台)记者 correspondent n.(电台)记者, 通讯员（工作任务特定的，专一的） eg：a war correspondent随军记者 palace n. a very large impressive house, esp. the official home of a king, queen, or president王宫；宏伟的住宅 publish v.出版 = print(vt.), go to press(vi.) -- The book has already been published. = The book has already been printed. -- The book has gone to press. -- They have already published the magazine. Fax n.传真 （-- send a fax） impatient adj. short of temper, easily annoyed不耐烦的 Impatience n.不耐烦; impatiently adv.不耐烦地 fire v. dismiss … from one’s job解雇（口语） -- He was fired from his job dismiss vt.解雇（正式） -- The manager dismissed him from his company. Sack vt.解雇, 辞退（俚语, 口语） -- If you do it wrong again you will be sacked. Originally adv. in the beginning 起初，原先，从前 original adj.最初的, 原始的, 独创的 【Deatiled study of the Text 课文学习】 Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their reader with unimportant facts and statistics. (L1) go to extremes 走极端 provide = supply 给...提供（通常与介词搭配连用） provide sb with sth / provide sth for sb eg. He, them, a bed, for the night -- He provided them with a bed for the night. He provided a bed for them for the night Last year a journalist had been instructed by a wellknown magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic. (L2) Republic n.共和国, 共和政体 PRC= People’s Republic of China Instruct vt. 教, 教导, 命令, 指示, 通 ... ...
