Theresa Chen

Journalistic English-Organization & Benefits

新聞英文

Organizations of English newspaper-inverted pyramid”

News stories

Feature stories

Business Section

Sports Section

Editorials

Letters to the editor

Reviews

Schedules

Cultural events

Others

•news stories •feature stories •the stock market report •exchange rates for foreign currency

•news stories •feature stories

•comics •classified advertisements •weather reports

Free On-line news

Newspapers The International Herald Tribune ( 國際前鋒論壇報 ) The New York Times ( 紐約時報 )

Magazines BusinessWeek ( 商業週刊 ) Forbes ( 富比士 )

News Agencies Agence France-Presse ( 法國法新社 ) The Associated Press ( 英國路透社 )

Electronic Media BBC( 英國廣播公司 ) CNN ( 美國有線電視 新聞網 ) MSNBC ( 美國微軟國家廣播公司 )

Taiwan English-written news CommonWealth Magazine ( 天下雜誌英文網 ) The Central News Aency ( 中央通訊社 )

Benefits

Increase Vocabulary Enhance Reading and writing

proficiency More lively First-hand information

Definition “received directly from a source”“from the first or original source”

How to read English news?

Reading several English news articles per week in areas in which

you are interested

Preparing yourself for the content by reading related articles in

Chinese

Skimming for the main points

Reading carefully for supporting details

Guessing the meaning of words from the context

Using a dictionary to look up difficult words

Keeping a notebook for news vocabulary and expressions

Making a written summary or translation

Let’s Read some news!