sophomore - week 3

5 - 10 min. - Read your paragraph to your partner.  Talk about the similarities and differences between your answers.

5 - 10 min. - Volunteers share answers, talk about grammar and vocab.
 
15 min. - Listening activity: headlines - listen and tell them back to me, I write them on the board
			What does it mean?  Can you rewrite it so it is grammatically correct?

10 min. - Discuss in groups
		1. Choose a headline: What do you think the story is about?
		2. Do any of these topics surprise you?  What other news about China do you think foreigners would be interested in?
		3. What do you think are the most important news topics in modern China?  Why?

5-10 min. - Share answers to above questions as a class.

5-10 min. - Roleplay: Imagine a foreigner asks you about these news stories.  What would you say?

10 min. - share and discuss answers as a class

15 min. - look at textbook

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Headlines:

China says toys in latest recall safe
China shuts 1,000 factories near polluted lake
China: Foreign investment up 12.8 pct.
China Sees Rise in Industrial Output
Toppling the Great Firewall of China
China's terracotta army invades Britain
Taiwan military shows strength amid fresh tension with China