反思性日记

姓名 张阳芳 班级 英语111 学号 2011012816

December10th, 2013 Tues

This is a funny course that I never had before, because we can enjoy different kinds of news although most of time our teacher will show us some bored political news. After analyses the news, our teacher always gives us chances to retell the news in our own words, personal speaking, I don’t like this at first, because sometimes I was out of my mind so I couldn’t catch up with it. And another reason is that it’s maybe a little difficult for me at the first time I touched them. But fortunately, I ‘m interested in this course, when I attended the first two lessons, I can understand all the knowledge points.

Then I will summarize what I have learned from this course. First it must be the learning aim: The basic layout of English newspapers, General features of news English, and different style of news articles.

Second, The significance of newspaper reading. This can be divided into four parts：

1.Good learning Resources for English learners for the rich vocabulary, which includes various idioms, common sayings.

2. Enable the learners to enhance their reading ability by providing authentic English learning material.

3. Broaden the readers’ horizon, being the major access to world news. 4.Good helper for the learners to improve their writing skill, due to the expert use of various writing techniques like personification, irony etc. in features .

Third, our teacher gives us a brief introduction of American and British newspapers and magazines. Such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times ,USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, International Herald Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, New York Daily News, San

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Francisco Chronicle and so on. These newspapers or magazines are famous and they are helpful in English study.

Last, I want to talk about Newspaper contents &Sections, general it contains News , Features, Sports, Business, Editorial/OP-Ed, Classifieds, Science and Technology, Life, Health, Entertainment.

I’m not sure about what I talked above, because there are something new that I find by myself. But I really enjoy this course as I gain a lot from this course.

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