【正文】 e pyramid. The advantage of this structure is that it lets readers know the main idea without reading the whole story. The main idea often appears in the first paragraph, or the “l(fā)ead”. A typical hard news story lead gives an overview of the story. A lead often answers the “Who? What? Where? When? And Why?” questions, as well as “How?” The “five Ws” form the basis of a story. (21st Century Newspapers)From the above, it es as no surprise that the readers can only read the first or several paragraphs to understand the whole story. When time is limited, this method can be applied in newspaper reading. Significance of using newspapers in English teaching (Taking 21st Century Senior Edition TEENS as an example)Newspaper reading activity builds on students39。 reading skills, helps them to enlarge their vocabulary, forces them to infer unknown words from the context, develops their writing and speaking skills in creating and delivering the presentation to the class, and finally enriches their cultural awareness as the source for the reading supplement to the course. English newspapers are indeed a great treasure trove of varied reading prehension input. It accords to the “ 3A” course concept under the reform of New Curriculum: Awareness, Autonomy and Authenticity. (Luo Jiachong, 2005) Reading newspapers also provides an avenue through which the students can expand their knowledge schema and develop their reading skills.It can, to a large extent, motivate the students to read a readily available and relatively cheap source of discourse in English which contains texts that offer high interesting content ranging from sensational news, genderbiased articles to contentbased information.Using newspapers for reading, preparing topics, discussion in class, language exercises, writing tasks, prehension and vocabulary exercises benefits the teacher and students unquestionably. In the reform of English curriculum, the key point lies in shifting from the overemphasis on grammar and vocabulary teaching to students’ mand of language petence, the learning interests of the students’ are also emphasized. That is to say, teachers should use and develop course resources properly to help the students extend the ways of learning English. Rightly, the specially designed 21st Century which breaks into sections like current events, campus trends, culture, leisure, science life, learning with us and fun time is effective in arousing students’ enthusiasm and enhancing their English proficiency. Compared with other English materials, newspapers have four main advantages: novel content, uptodate language, rich information and practical and native expression.Current events, the latest social phenomenon report, the latest fashion and so on constitute the novelty content which can let the students keep pace with the modern society and be wellinformed. The information can be easily connected with students’ real life and the authenticity is more likely to promote real munication. The novel authentic content can bee learner authenticity after it is properly dealt with. Since the language in the 21st Century is simple and uptodate, it will not depress students but help them enlarge their vocabularies. What is more, due to the students’ curiosity, uptodate language is easier for them to bear in mind. Once the language is internalized, it is possible for students to yield something creative or better mand the uptodate language. Newspapers are not only a rich resource of current information, they can also be used to familiarize students with the culture of the English speaking countries. Designed according to students’ age and psychological features, the topics in the 21st Century are familiar to them. The rich information with different degrees of difficulty can enlarge students’ horizon besides language learning and spark their interests in reading. There is characterized information which connects with the textbooks to supply more background knowledge and help students’ better understand them. Stories with instructive meanings are important to develop students’ healthy minds. According to the teens, once they form the habit of reading newspaper, they are eager to read soon after its publication. Practical and native expressions in 21st Century influence its frequent readers. Since what is written in the newspapers is close to the students’ true life, the expressions have positive effects on the way students express themselves. If the students are aware of those expressions, it is more likely that they will tend to think in English, but not from Chinese to English which often happens when they do not know how to express their thoughts in English. Newspaper texts could be used as authentic models of writing as a product, and the asset of such a solution would be that students would be pletely convinced of the reality of the examples. In this way, they might supplement or enrich existing course books, by providing samples of writing pieces, to be used for discussion of style or structures and for modeling students39。 own writing.Besides, “l(fā)earning with us” section motivates students to write to the editors which can improve their writing skills by practice. The published work is a great encouragement in students’ English learning. This section promotes students’ creativeness and gets them active in writing. In all, by reading 21st Century, students can better master what they learn in the textbooks, spark their interests and enhance their English language petence. To cater to the students39。 needs, and to provide recency and variety, newspapers could be used quite profitably.Part 4. Newspaper teaching model and parisons of two different resources Newspaper teaching modelSince teaching model is the crux of teaching activities, it is necessary to find out new models to take the place of the traditional “3P” teaching model in the incorporation of newspapers in English teachin