UNIT 7: THE MASS MEDIA
LESSON 4. WRITING
I. Objectives:
1. Education Aims: Advantages and disadvantages of television and mass media.
2. Knowledge:
a. General knowledge: Advantages and disadvantages of mass media.
b. Language:
- Language concerning mass media.
- The present simple tense.
3. Skills:
- Reading: read about the advantages and disadvantages of television.
- Speaking: to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the mass media.
- Writing: write a about the advantages and disadvantages of the mass media.
II. Anticipated problems Advantages and disadvantages for writing.
III. Teaching Aids: board, textbook, chalk.
IV. Procedures:
Teacher's activities Students' activities
1. Homework checking: (5 mins)
- Ask one st to talk about one of the news stories that
he/she is interested in.
- Check and give remarks.
2. Before you write: (20 mins)
- Aims: to get sts to read about the advantages and
disadvantages of television and to help sts to prepare
vocabulary and information before they write.
+ Task 1:
- Advantages and disadvantages of television.
- Explain some new words:
+ 'memorable (adj): easy to remember
+ en'joyable (adj): pleasant
+ popu'larity (n): the noun of "popular"
+ be a'ware of (v): realize
+ brain (n): part of the body inside the head
+ 'violent (adj): fighting, killing, etc.
+ inter'fere with (v): get in the way of something
- Ask sts listen to the teacher and repeat , then write these
words into their notebooks.
- Ask sts some questions to make sure that they
understand all the advantages and disadvantages of
television.
What are the (dis) advantages of television?
- Listen and give remarks.
+ Task 2:
- Divide the whole class into three groups and ask each
pair in group 1 to discuss the advantages and
disadvantages of radio, each pair in group 2 discuss those
of newspapers, and each pair in group 3 discuss those of
the internet.
- Ask sts to work in 7 minutes.
- Read the table in pairs.
- Structures:
+ help/encourage someone to do
something: help us to learn, encourage
us to buy...
+ make someone/ something +
adjective: make things memorable,
make us aware of, make us passive,
make people violent...
S: Television helps us to learn
more .............
- Work in pairs to discuss.
- Some sts stand up to give their ideas.
* Radio:
+ Advantages:
- It helps us to get updated news and
infofmation.
- It helps us to listen to music, dramas,
etc.
- It is not harmful to people's eyes.
+ Disadvantages:
- It is rather boring because we can't
see anything.
- The programmes are not very vivid,
there are no games and films, etc.
- Listen to the teacher and take notes.
- Do the writing task.
- Read their writing: (a sample
paragraph)
"The Internet is now the largest source
of information and entertainment for