Teaching aims:

Target language

eyewitness, opinion, information, stick to, rather than, account for

Ability goals

Enable the Ss to know how to express opinions of own and justify the situations according to different opinions.

Enable the Ss to grasp the main points of news-writing.

Teaching important and difficult points

Justify the different point of views and make one’s own opinions.

Write the news clearly and pithily.

Teaching method

Discussion, cooperative learning, debating