"In the News" and
"Keeping Up To Date."
Your assignment is to read a news story from a CURRENT newspaper, magazine, or TV news program, and then report that story to the class.
You MUST give the specific NAME of the newspaper, magazine, or TV news program where the story originated from; as well as the DATE when the story was first published. The publication date MUSt be between May 1 and May 17, 2009.
Remember ... Skip the fluff 辞藻
Big/difficult words
Names/proper nouns
Words you can't pronounce
Fairy tales are NOT NEWS
Stories in a book are NOT NEWS
Stories from your English Textbook are NOT NEWS ...
ONLY stories from a newspaper, magazine, or TV news program will be acceptable.
If you need some suggestions, the following web sites may be helpful:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/
http://www.nyt.com/
http://www.cnn.com/
http://www.nyt.com/
http://www.time.com/
http://www.newsweek.com/
http://www.businessweek.com/
http://live.shanghaidaily.com/
http://www.21stcentury.chinadaily.com.cn/、
http://www.economist.com/
http://www.foxnews.com/
http://www.msnbc.com/
http://www.theonion.com/
http://english.cctv.com/index.shtml
http://www.caijing.com.cn/English/
http://www.salon.com/
