This lesson plan outlines a 3-month advanced reading course with the following structure: 5-minute warm-up, 20-minute introduction, 15-minute group learning activity, 10-minute individual pop quiz, and assignment. It is designed for up to 20 students who have learned 8,000 words and aims to improve their ability to read business reports and articles from major publications. Students will be evaluated based on participation, collaboration, performance on in-class activities, a pop quiz, and peer evaluations.

1. Lesson Plan 5-min warm up. 20-min introduction. 15-min learning by doing. (In groups) 10-min evaluation, a pop quiz. (In individuals) Assignment.

2. Requirements Participants ： 20 at most who have learned about 8,000 words. Divided into 5 groups. Duration time per class ： 50 mins. Course period ： 3 months

3. Objectives Students should get the ability to read business reports and to read different articles from Times , National geographic , and China post .

4. Evaluation Participation 15% Collaboration 15% Q’s in Learning by Doing 35% (Group record) Pop Quiz 30% (Individual Record) Group-peer’s reflection on one another.5%

5. Warm-Up What’s your idea to get the main point of the news? Barack Obama from Times Barack Obama will make an audacious prime-time pitch to the nation tonight in one of the most ambitious advertising investments in American political history. … a 30-minute slot on three national networks … be aired …. The advertisements, … cost about $1 million (£640,000) each, mark the first time in 16 years ….

6. Advanced Reading Course Presenter : Andrew Instructor : Dr. Hung 10/ 29/ 2008

7. What Is News ？ Ordinary Person （ s ） + Usual Occurrence （ s ）≠ News Ordinary Person （ s ） + Un usual Occurrence （ s ）＝ News Extra ordinary person （ s ） + Usual Occurrence （ s ）＝ News Extra ordinary person （ s ） + Un usual Occurrence （ s ）＝ Big News Q : Barack Obama belongs to which column?

8. Sorts of News By Communication Tools Newspaper coverages, news agency despatches, Internet news, etc.. By Location ： World news, home news, and local news. By Content ： Political news, economic news, technological news, cultural news, sports news, violence and crime news, disaster news, weather news, obituary, entertainment and so forth. 3 Unique Sorts ： Editorial, column, and critique.

9. 3 Main Factors in News Being aware of 3 main factors is the basic step and the most important as well. Headline Lead ： Including “5W+ 1H” usual in larger letters than the body. Body ： An upside-down pyramid.

10. Headlines Skip indefinite articles “a/ an” and definite articles “the.” No be verb. Usually present tense. To+ V, the future tense. Past Participle, the passive voice. Present Participle, the active voice. Prepositional Phrase, the complementary. Phrasal Headline, usually along with Subhead . An Atomic Encounter Preference in short verbs and nouns. Abbreviations, like biz, deli, nat’l, com’l, AIDS, NASA, etc.

11. Subhead/ Sub-headline Headline  Spent fuel shipments Subhead  German to lift ban on transport of N-waste Lead  The German government said yesterday it would lift its two-year-old ban on the shipment of nuclear waste to allow the transport of some spent fuel starting in August.

12. Key Words Headline  Currency Revaluation Key words  Greece cuts interest rates Lead  Greece yesterday slashed interest rates after last week’s 3.5 percent revaluation of its currency against the Euro.

13. Lead The essential part of the body written in normal English includes “5W and 1H.” ROME( Kyoto)— three Japanese tourists and a Japanese tour guide were killed and 27 others injured when their bus smashed into the rear of a tank truck on a highway in northern Italy Friday , Japanese officials reported.

14. Terms in Business News NASDAQ , National Association of Securities. DJIA , Dow Jones Industrial Average. Nikkei , Japanese Economic Index Blue chip , good stocks. Dividends , profits in per stock. FED , Federal Reserve Bank. Silicon Valley , a company like Intel, AMD, etc. PHS , Personal Handyphone System. IMF , International Monetary Fund.

15. Terms in Business News G-7 Nations , Group of Seven industrial countries. NAFTA , North American Free Trade Agreement. Buy American , Buy American Act( 購買國貨法案 ) The Exclusion Act , ( 排華法案 ). CEO , Chief Executive Officer, Holding Company , the major right of controlling a company. Bad Debt , dumb account. JV , Joint Ventue. Down Payment , the initial payment on top of the installments.

16. Learning by Doing Barack Obama from Times discussed in groups. What kind of news? Detail the 3 main factors. According to the above q’s, finish the following exercises in group discussion : Q1. Buenos Aires from National Geographic. Q2. Wall Street leaps from Times.

17. Pop Quiz Choose a topic in business from China Post. What kind of news is it? What’s the reason that you choose this news? How many parts of the news are mentioned in our instruction? Detail them. Answer in individuals.

18. Assignment Survey an article related to today’s class and then discuss it in class next time. Hand in the group-peer’s reflection.

19. Thanks for your attention.