1、Unit 1 Tales of unexplained,Reading,Boy missing,police puzzled,The text is selected from Model 2, Advance with English. This reading text is a news report about a missing boy who was thought to be kidnapped by aliens.,Teaching plan,We are supposed to learn some reading strategies and how to gain eno
2、ugh information when read a news report. This lesson should focus on the learners ability of searching information by scanning and skimming and preparing for the next learning of this unit.,1. Objective of knowledgeTo help students learn the features of a news report and some reading strategies 2. O
3、bjective of abilitiesTo train students abilities of getting information by some reading skills, especially scanning and skimming. 3. Objective of affectionTo arouse students interests in unexplained things,Key points: 1. To develop students reading skills (skimming and scanning). 2. To help students
4、 gain better understanding through the framework of the material. 3. To acquire students the strategy of how to read a newspaper articleDifficult point: To guide students to get information through intensive reading and extensive reading and exchange information by group discussion.Teaching aid: Pow
5、erPoint,Teaching & learning methods: 1) Reading and tasked-based methods 2) Communicative teaching methodIll give the Ss some tasks and arrange five kinds of activities: discussing, talking, reading ,listening and interviewing. Students can learn the language in a certain context with the help of ac
6、tivities and consolidate their competence of language practice and self-study ability under the communicative language teaching,Guide students to get reading skills by summarizing and imitating.Get Students to form good reading habits and grasp useful reading strategies through kinds of exercises.,T
7、eaching Procedure,Step 1 lead-in Use a discussion to lead in the features of a news title and the topic of the text. Step 2 Presentation: Introduce to the students some features of a news report and teach them how to read it and get information effectively.,Step 3 Practice: 1. Fill a form according
8、to the information of the first paragraph 2. Read the article quickly for some information according the strategy1) What is the article about?2) When was Justin last seen?3) Who is in charge of the case? 3. Finish a T or F task,Step 4 Consolidation:1) Further the understanding of the text by answeri
9、ng some questions, using the skill of scanning2) Listen to the tape of this text and complete a multiple choice Step 5 Explanation:To introduce some language points of the first paragraph,Step 6 Homework1. Read another piece of news according to the reading strategy 2. Finish exercise C2 and D in pa
10、ge 43. Underline some important phrases or structures and prepare for next class,Do you often read newspapers?What kind of news do you like to read?( sports news, entertainment news, political news or economic news )How do you select the news you like to read?( by taking a look at its title or by be
11、ing attracted by its colorful pictures),Discussion,Boy missing, police puzzled,The title:,?,A boy is missing and the police are puzzled.,Whats the features of a news title?,short and brief,attractive, exact, direct,Whats the features of a news story?,It is often written in an inverted pyramid format
12、. Most general information is give first Details follow,title,the first paragraph,( to give a general idea about the news ),the following paragraphs,( to tell readers “who” “when” “where” “what” “why” “how” ),( to give detailed but less important information ),How to read a newspaper article?,Read t
13、he beginning very carefully Try to answer the 5 wh- and how questions with the information in the first paragraph.,“boy missing, police puzzled”,the first paragraph,the following paragraphs,evidence given by_,Who When What why ,Its about a missing boy,parents, sister, neighbors ,a fifteen-year-old b
14、oy,three days ago,in Dover,New Hampshire,went missing,The first para.,Fill in the blanks,unknown,1.What is the article about?2. When was Justin last seen?3. Who is in charge of the case?,Its about a missing boy.,Friday night,Detective Sam Peterson,Skimming,T or F Police in America have stepped up th
15、eir search for a thirteen-year-old boy. ( )Justin foster, a high school student, went missing last Saturday .( ) 3. Justins sister, Kelly, says she saw her brother return home at about 11 p.m. ( ) The police were sure that Justin was taken by aliens. ( ),fifteen-year-old,Friday,werent,F,T,F,F,2. Why
16、 did Justins mother go to bed early?,3. What sports does Justin play?,4. What time did the witnesses see Justin walking home?,He lives in Dover, New Hampshire.,Because of a headache.,He plays baseball.,At 10.45 p.m.,Scanning Exercise C1 (p.4),1. Where does Justin Foster live?,5. Does Justin have any
17、 brothers and sisters?,6. What color were the aliens?,7. Who else has been taken by the aliens?,8. Who is in charge of the case?,He has a sister.,They were white.,Mavis Wood has been taken by the aliens.,Detective Sam Peterson is in charge of it.,According paragraph 1, _. A. Justin was killed by Yet
18、isB. people showed great interest in Justin Fosters being missingC. the police have discovered the truth of Justins being missingD. Justin went lost last night 2. In the second paragraph, “show up” means_.A. arrive or appear B. reach C. disappear D. reach for,Multiple choice,B,A,3. From the third pa
19、ragraph, we know that_.A. Justin did not go home that nightB. after the game Justin spent the night with a friend that nightC. Justin returned home that nightD. Justin was playing baseball with a friend all the night.,C,4. According to Paragraph 5, we know that _.A. the light that Kelly saw was the
20、light of the full moonB. the spaceship was white all overC. Kelly saw the aliens take Justin awayD. Kelly was quite sure that the aliens took Justin away,D,5. From the last paragraph we can know that_.A. the police have given up looking into spaceB. the police didnt believe what Kelly and other peop
21、le said at allC. the police will also try to find out some other possibilitiesD. the people have found out that someone made up the story of Justins missing,C,1. Boy missing, police puzzled (=A boy is missing, and the police are puzzled.),puzzle vt. 使困惑 n. 疑惑，谜，智力游戏 puzzled adj. 困惑的（常用于指人,可指人的表情） pu
22、zzling adj. 令人困惑的（常用于指物）E.g.: Her illness puzzled all the doctors.It is still a puzzle.The puzzling problem made me puzzled.There is a puzzled look in her face.,2. Police in America stepped up their search for a 15-year-old boy who went missing 3 days ago in Dover New Hampshire,step up (=speed up; i
23、ncrease ) 加快，加强，促进，逐步提高 step up ones pace 加快步伐 step up ones social position 逐步提高社会地位 Our trade with foreign countries is stepping up.我们和外国的贸易正在逐步增加。go +adj. 表示“变成，处于某种状态”，但往往表示不好的变化 E.g.: go mad/ hungry/ wrong /worse / grey /blind,3.People have shown great interest in his disappearance due to sightings of puzzling lights(Line 4),Assignment,Read another piece of news according to the reading strategy Finish exercise C2 and D in page 4Underline some important phrases or structures and prepare for next class,The end thank you,
