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　　《The Media》教案Lesson 1 World News
　　教案
　　Objectives
　　■To practise using the Passive.
　　■To practise identifying the type of newspaper an article is from.
　　■To talt what is in the news.
　　Resources used
　　World map (Before you start), Grammar Summary 5, a selection of the day’s newspapers (in Chinese).
　　Possible problem
　　Students should have no great difficulties with the form of the Passive, but need to be aware that the Passive is used more in English than in other languages (which use other impersonal structures instead).
　　Bacnd
　　Montserrat (population about 15,000) is a British colony in the Caribbean. Its capital and main port is Plymouth. It is a mountainous island with active volcanoes. In 1997 there was a major volcanic eruption in the south of the island and most of the inhabitants had to be evacuated.
　　Routes through the material
　　. If you are short of time, set some of the exercises for homework (e.g. Exercises 9) and omit Exercise 8.
　　. If you have time, do the Options activities.
　　. If you have two lessons for this unit, a suitable natural break is after Exercise 5.
　　Language Power: pages 66-67.