Journalism English

The Headlines

□ClippingsQuiz entertainmentBiz businessFridge questionFet medicineMed refrigeratorNuke nuclear

Other name of significant places

□ White house the US government

White Hall Media in Britain

Buckingham Palace the government of Great

Britain

Downing street the British Royal

Fleet street the British government

Pentagon The American military forces

Short Words for Verbs

□eye to consider ink cause spark to encourage axe to deny Push to mark Probe to cancel Nix to investigate

The Lead

□Lead: The first paragraph in the news story.

□What is the function of “lead”?

□Function:□1. catch the reader’s attention□2. attract readers into reading more

Essential facts in lead:

□Who□What□When □Where□Why/ how

Types of Lead

□Direct lead□Delayed Lead

Direct Lead□WASHINGTON – The House of

Representatives voted today to impeach President Clinton

□Impeach: to make a formal statement saying that a public official is guilty of a serious offence in connection with their job, especially in the US

□The governor was impeached for wrongful use of state money.

□BAGHDAD – A gunman Sunday shot and killed a soldier who was guarding Baghdad University in the city’s center, military officials said

Words & Expressions

□Press:□to try hard to persuade someone to do

something [+ object + to infinitive]

□The committee pressed him to reveal more information.

□He's pressing me for an answer.

□Concession:□something which is allowed or given up,

often in order to end a disagreement.□He stated firmly that no concessions

will be made to the strikers

Israelis and Palestinians Pressed to Compromise in Mideast Talks

By Steven R. Weisman

□Secretary of State Colin L. Powell joins with top European, Arab and United Nations diplomats to press for concessions in peace talks between Israel and Palestinians even as violence in Gaza Strip leaves four Palestinians dead.

Words & Expressions

□Tame:

□to control something dangerous or powerful.

□to make a wild animal tame□He'll need to tame his temper if he

wants to succeed.

□Pledge:□to make a serious or formal promise to

give or do something

□We are asking people to pledge their support for our campaign.

□[+ to infinitive] Both sides have pledged to end the fighting.

□Turbulent:□involving a lot of sudden changes,

arguments or violence

□ a turbulent marriage□This has been a turbulent week for

the government.

□Turmoil:□a state of confusion, uncertainty or

disorder

□The whole region is in turmoil.□The country is in a state of political

turmoil.

Features of Direct Lead

□Tells directly the heart of the events□Always has the time element□Tells a source of the information□The place of the action is usually

included

Delayed Lead

□Washington --- New York Democrat Charles Rangel rose Saturday to utter one of the rare sentences on which both sides of the House of Representatives could agree:”Mr. Speaker, the whole world is watching.”

Still New York, in Pain and Glory□ By N. R. Kleinfield

□ Nothing has been forgotten. That could never be. But things go on, start anew, revert to some mean. Even on the E train downtown, where the stations still advise, “To World Trade Center all times,” and the conductors intone, “E train to World Trade.” One year after it faced its own mortality, New York, in its daily curiosities and unexpungeable flavor, is still New York. For some time, no one knew if that could happen,.

Features of Delayed Lead

□Create hints for attracting attention.

□Set a scene or evoke a mood with an incident or example

□The China Effect□In the midst of a steaming-hot Malaysian

jungle, sweat-stained factory workers bend over their looms, threading copper into bales of cable wire that gets so hot, it must snake through culverts of water before it can be touched. The factory floor is awash in tea-colored light from windows smeared with soot. The grinding of machines creates a constant, earsplitting din. There is no air-conditioning. "It would cost too much," says Alvin Mui, president of P.I.E. Industrial, which operates the factory.

□中国效应□在热气蒸腾的马来西亚丛林中，全身汗渍

斑斑的工人们正弯腰在织机前工作，他们要做的是把铜线穿进电缆中，那些铜线十分烫手，所以在穿之前必须先浸泡在水沟中。光线透过被煤烟熏成了茶色的玻璃照射在工厂的地板上，机器的摩擦声发出持续不断又震耳欲聋的噪声。厂里没装空调。开办此家工厂的 PIE 产业集团总裁 Alvin Mui 解释说：“装空调成本太高了。”

□This tiny village near the manufacturing hub of Ewu sets its clock by the online habits of China's shoppers. Until five years ago, this place was a rural backwater. Now, its 10,000 residents generate $120 million in sales thanks to a popular e-retailing site called Taobao.

□YOON: When China's shoppers place their orders on Taobao, Chin Yao Moon's merchants fill them at shops like this. Liu Jin has inventory of his own. But if he doesn't have what his customers want, someone else in this town will.

□YOON: Once his basket is full, he is off to start packing the evening shipments. The entire village is alive with vendors like Liu. Express trucks come and go seemingly nonstop into the wee hours. Thousands of parcels are stacked daily, emerging from underground warehouses.

□These basements have a mind-boggling array of goods, everything from the practical to the strange. The government keeps rents in these buildings low, so people like Lin Saila can get started investing only in a room and a computer. Today, she received over 3,000 orders.

□.Liu has been to Beijing and Shanghai, but now this farmer's son can stay closer to home.

□LIU [TRANSLATED]: "I make money," he says. "It gives me more freedom."

□LIU [TRANSLATED]: "Every day is this hectic," he says. "We'll be back at it tomorrow in the town the Internet built.“

YOON: Eunice Yoon, CNN, Qingyanliu, China

Development of Leads

□1. Telegraph□2. Streamline

□ Big event on what's become a cold night in London. when we see you there, it will officially be the eve of the royal wedding. a chance for the world to feel good about something in the news, at least those following it. and great Britain by Friday will have a new princess not previously from the royal ranks. Kate snow is from London with more.

□ reporter: good evening to you, Brian. on Friday when millions of people are watching, they will see Kate Middleton as a bride, a symbol, possibly even a future queen of England, but for the focal in buckle bury, she's quite literally, the girl next door.

□The old boot inn is the kind of spot where everywhere is a regular. everybody knows the village dairy farmer, Richard plank. and everyone also knows the girl from up the hill who is marrying a prince. though in buckle bury, they're used to seeing Kate Middleton in jeans.

>> she would pop in for a drink or might come in with her family and have a meal.

Pop :□ [I + adverb or preposition] mainly UK informal to

go to a particular place□ I've just got to pop into the bank to get some

money.□ Paula popped out for a minute.□ Why don't you pop in/over and see us this

afternoon?

□ reporter: john will be at the wedding Friday, and so will hash and Chan, owners of a grocery in town.

□ at the end of the day, she's still a young lady from Bucklebury, a young girl who wasn't forgotten by people around her.

□The family briefly lived in Jordan, but she spent most of her life in the British countryside.

□people talk about her being a commoner. that's a slightly ridiculous thing to say. she has been to these ridiculously expensive schools and she has fraternized with upper classes.

□Commoner:□a person who is not born into a

position of high social rank□ The princess's children have no

titles because their father is a commoner

□Fraternize:□to meet someone socially, especially

someone who belongs to an opposing army or team, or has a different social position

□Do the doctors fraternize much with the nurses here?

□He accused the England team of fraternizing too much with the opposition.

□reporter: Kate's parents bought an estate off this road when she was 13 after making a small fortune with a company that sells party supplies. Kate met her prince at St. Andrews university where she rode and got her degree in art history.

□when someone said, you're lucky to be going out with him, she said, he's lucky to be going out with me.

□she was criticized for working in the family business, but supporters say it kept her safe from the British paparazzi. she's never put a foot wrong, always poised, dressed impeccably you can even ask for the Kate hairstyle in London. but don't be fooled, Kate is still a country girl.

□  impeccably [ɪm'pekəbəl]adj.  无错误的 , 极好的 , 无瑕疵的 .

□she isn't glitzy or celebrity. she's not going to be the girl at the end of the night dancing on the table. she'll be quietly finishing her one glass of wine. that's her style.

□at St. Mary's church in Bucklebury, built in the 11th century, the bell ringers are getting ready for a three-hour composition in her honor on Friday.

it's something which is only going to happen once in my lifetime.

□back at the pub, they're clearly proud.

□I would say she's going to make a wonderful princess, so i don't think he could have met a nicer girl.

□reporter: and Brian, along with the bells ringing for three hours, they're planning quite a party in Bucklebury. invite only, complete with a wedding cake for 1,200.