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1、第一节News ReadingPre-lectureOutline of the course News reading, which has become a daily must for many people, is widely regarded as a way to enjoy their “right to know and to know the right”. Main Functions: 1. Served as a way to widen your scope of knowledge 2. Learn the ever-changing English 3. Lea
2、rn the art of journalistic writingThe Significance of Newspaper Reading 1. Good learning Resources for English learners for the rich vocabulary, which includes various idioms, common sayings and diverse phrases.The Significance of Newspaper Reading 2. Enable the learners to enhance their reading abi
3、lity by providing authentic English learning material.The Significance of Newspaper Reading 3. Broaden the readers horizon, being the major access to world news.The Significance of Newspaper Reading 4. Good helper for the learners to improve their writing skill, due to the expert use of various writ
4、ing techniques like personification, irony etc. in features .Basic Skills for News Reading1. a considerable large news vocabulary run 跑步 measurement 措施 bill 账单 establishment 建立 community 社区 dry 干 wet 湿（英国保守党） He blinked 他眨眼睛了 take a walk 散步 go fishing 去钓鱼 Im a family man 我是一个有家室的人 1) Terrorists migh
5、t hit American interests abroad. 2) At the root of the problem is money. As a poor nation, China has few resources left over for cultural conservation after struggling to overhaul its command economy, dampen rising unemployment, take care of an aging population, put an infrastructure and modernize i
6、ts massive military. 提喻、借喻、委婉语等用法 Eron 美国的安然公司 Broadway 百老汇大 街 Madison Avenue 麦迪逊大街 Wall Street 华尔街 Donkey Elephant Bear Dove Hawk Westminster 威斯敏斯特（英国议会,英国 政府） Buckingham Palace Fleet Street 舰队街 （英国新闻界，报业 ） Capitol hill 国会山 Pentagon 五角大楼 Silicon Valley 硅谷revenue enhancement instead of tax increase
7、welfare mother instead of jobless mother Strategic withdrawal instead of rout and heavy defeat Collateral damage instead of civilian casualtiesObama coin words Office seeks the man, presidential timber Beauty contest 熟词有了新义 Buy one，give one free. Time for a change.(1944,1948, 1952) Hillary: experien
8、ce, fear of change, a new face, represent a sharp break from the immediate past , Bush fatigue, 欧洲出现了ABB 美国 ABB at the west end is the Temple Bar which marks the current city limits, stretched to that point when the land and property of the Knights Templar圣殿骑士 团were acquired. Present day Fleet Stree
9、t in 2005 Fleet Street is now more associated with the Law and its courts and barristers chambers, many of which are in alleys off Fleet Street itself, almost all of the newspapers thereabouts having moved to Wapping and Canary Wharf. Editorial policy Unlike the United States where national newspape
10、rs do not exist in the European sense, and the liberal or conservative perspective of some major newspapers is not openly declared, Fleet Street has enjoyed the diversity of over a dozen national daily and Sunday newspapers with differing political stances. . This is Temple Bar and marks the boundar
11、y between The City of London and the City of WestminsterRupert Murdock Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG (born 11 March 1931) is an Australian American global media baron and the Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, the worlds second-largest media conglomerate. In 1953, Murdoch became managing director
12、 of News Limited, inherited from his father. He acquired troubled newspapers in Australia and New Zealand during the 1950s and 60s before expanding into the UK in 1969, taking over the News of the World and then the The Sun, which he built into Britains best selling daily. He moved to New York in 19
13、74 and expanded into the US market, and in 1985 he became a US citizen.9 In 1981, he bought The Times, his first British broadsheet. In 1986, keen to adopt newer electronic publishing technologies, he consolidated his UK printing operations in Wapping, causing bitter industrial disputes. His News Co
14、rporation acquired Twentieth Century Fox (1985), HarperCollins (1989) and The Wall Street Journal (2007). He formed BSkyB in 1990 and during the 1990s expanded into Asian networks and South American television. By 2000 Murdochs News Corporation owned over 800 companies in more than 50 countries with
15、 a net worth of over $5 billion. In July 2011 Murdoch faced allegations that his companies including the News of the World, owned by News Corporation, had been regularly hacking the phones of private citizens. He also faces police and government investigations into bribery and corruption in the UK and FBI investigations in the US. Murdoch has been listed three times in the Time 100 as among the most influential people in the world. He is ranked 13th most powerful person in the world in the 2010 Forbes The Worlds Most Powerful People list. With a personal net worth of US$7.6 billio
