1practical writing unit 5 news.ppt

Unit 5 News Task 1: warm-up discussion As a reader, what news will attract and impress you at the first glance? Task 2: discuss about “How to write a good news report?” You can cover those: News values: News types: Structure of news: Headline and lead(标题和新闻导语) Linguistic features (语言特点) News values --Truth --Impact (importance, consequence or significance) --Unusualness (bizarreness, oddity or novelty) --Prominence --Timeliness and freshness --Conflict --Human interest News types: --newspaper coverage, magazine coverage, radio news, TV news, cable news and dispatches --world news, home news and local news --political news, economic news, technological news, cultural news, sports news, violence and crime news, entertainment news….. --hard news and soft news, feature news Structure of news: --The Inverted Pyramid Structure --Pyramid Structure Headline and lead(新闻标题和导语) --functions of headline --attracting the readers’ attention --summarizing the story --depicting the mood of the story --helping set the tone of the newspaper Task 3: read the sample headlines and discuss about its linguistic features(语言特点) linguistic features of headline --use of present tense(现在时态) eg: Beijing Dreams of 2008 --frequent omission of certain words(省略) Eg: Japan to help elderly jobless (=Japan is to help the elderly jobless) China’s tax collectors inching for inheritance tax (=China’s tax collectors are inching for inheritance tax) identities of hijack suspects released (=The identities of hijack suspects are released) Top Pakistan judge dismissed after refusing to take oath (=A top Pakistan judge was dismissed after refusing to take oath) Daewoo to increase investment in China (=Daewoo is to increase its investment in China) --Punctuations(标点符号) Eg: Common interests for China, US (=Common interests for China and US) Death toll up; disease ‘under control’ Economy Grows Slowly as Unemployment, Inflation Rise—Economists Official: Sun should run ma