1. Integrating skills(P15)
Who do you think wrote each report?

2. Read and discuss
Read the two reports carefully and discuss these question with your partner.
How are the reports different?
Who do you think wrote each report?
What do you think are facts and what are opinions?
What would be a good headline for each story?
What pictures would you use?

3. Comparison First description
“A small group of fewer than a hundred” →make the group sound small
“people” →neutral
“caused problem” →negative
“most successful company” →positive
“the rude and noisy group” →negative
“made it difficult for workers” →negative
“troublemakers” →negative
“left peacefully … but a few of them fought.”
→negative

4. Comparison “more than ninety” →the group is large
Second description
“more than ninety” →the group is large
“caring citizens” →positive
“made their voices heard” →positive
“the city’s worst polluter” →negative
“The citizens … love nature and our planet”
→positive
“talked to workers …a positive message” →positive
“activist” →positive
“angry men armed with sticks” →negative

5. Discussion:
1. If you were the citizens there, what would you do? Would you join in the demonstration, or would you rather try to solve the problem in other ways? Why?
2.What should we do to protect our nature and planet? How about the factories and the government?

6. What do you think are facts and what are opinions?
It may be difficult to separate facts and opinions, but the text seems to make clear that the facts are:
A group of about ninety people gathered outside a factory.
The group was demonstrating outside the factory.
The meeting ended when the police (or possibly people from the factory) arrived.

7. Possible headlines Protesters Disrupt(使中断，破坏) Work at Factory
For the first report
Protesters Disrupt(使中断，破坏) Work at Factory
Troublemakers Stop Workers
Workers Attacked by Troublemakers
For the second report
Activists Protest Against Polluter
Demonstrators Attacked by Factory Workers
Caring Citizens take Action to Save the Planet

8. brave and strong是形容词作状语，形容词或形容词短语作状语，通常说明主语行为的原因、方式、伴随状况等。
Language Point:
1. Brave and strong, the activists talked to workers outside the factory…
brave and strong是形容词作状语，形容词或形容词短语作状语，通常说明主语行为的原因、方式、伴随状况等。
e.g. Cold and hungry, he decided to stop and have a rest. (表原因)又冷又饿，他决定停下来休息一会儿。
Ripe, the oranges taste sweet.（表方式）这些橘子熟了，味道甜美。

9. In the Public Eye

10. ?
bigger

11. Read to find out information to fill in the table below.
Different periods of Yang Lan’s life
In her childhood
Life was simple and she had a great dream.
She graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University and began to host “Zheng Da TV show”.
At age of 21
She began her study in a foreign country.
At age of 25
While studying abroad
She got ideas about creating a new kind of TV station, and she produced “Horizon”.
She developed her own company and dreams of creating a distinctly Chinese show that can act as a positive force in real life.
After returning home

12. Discussion Do you agree with this viewpoint:
“News media can and should
be used to educate people .”

13. educational

14. Chinese
TV shows
American
Similarities
Talk shows and TV series are popular.
Differences
Often talk about serious issues and new discoveries.
Often talk about personal stories and entertaining issues.
Reasons
Chinese people want to learn something when they watch TV.
Americans want to be entertained.

15. Homework
Get all the exercises ready in your English Weekly and “SWSJ”.