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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!