由於這些閱讀資料都是紐約時報的報導，它們傾向於新聞、新知、新趨勢的描述，立場和觀點比較薄弱，事實和現象比較是重點所在，因此同學在準備時只要著重報導內容做簡要的說明即可。報告長度為2分鐘，目的是讓你用自己的話語以及在這篇中學到的字彙，生動活潑準確的描述報導的主題以及你對這篇報導的看法。

換句話說，請用1分鐘大略敘述報導內容，用第2分鐘來闡述你個人的讀後感。請仔細規劃你的句型，抓住文內重點，修整個人說話的風格，使得你個人的報告成為語言表演的一個重要機會。（這是期末成績的重要考量）

1. 閱讀文章，理解其中內容，並思考這篇報導所達成的效果。
2. 嘗試用 3 - 5 個句子summarize報導內容，when、who、what、where、how、why都是重要資訊，要設法用句子呈現出來
   
3. 然後嘗試用3-5個句子說說這個新聞給你帶來的聯想或看法，盡力深入深刻有趣

以3月6日的文章為範例：Nobody Likes a Machine That's Too Complex

I am sure many of you, like me, have been frustrated by the increasing complexity of today』s machines. They often include many features that we will never use because we just could not figure out how to operate them. This piece introduces the views of author Donald Norman who has written 2 books to complain about that and has been calling for more user-friendly designs. Dr. Norman worries that as machines are being designed to include more artificial intelligence features, they will become even more difficult to use. He suggests that consumers try to give more feedback to designers so that future machines would be more user-centered. This may be a good idea, to encourage more communication between designers and users, but my question is: how do we give feedback to the designers before a product comes out? The only thing we could do is to complain about a product when it is already on the market, and that may be too late. So perhaps a more efficient way to do this would be to improve the education of the designers in the first place.