Unit1 Tales of the unexplained-Reading教案

Description

The article is a news story about a boy's strange disappearance. Though a lot of efforts have been made to investigate the case, it still remains a mystery. How to read a news article is designed and presented. All the activities are involved with checking and enhancing students' reading abilities. Students are expected to gain an overall understanding of the article and learn to read in different ways according to the type of the article.

Suggested teaching procedures

* Lead-in

Ask students the following questions by having them focus on the title of the article 'Boy missing, police puzzled'.

Does the title arouse your interest when you read it? Can you complete the title?

From the title what information can you get? And what else do you want to know? For example:

'boy missing' ( How / When / Where was the boy missing? )

'police puzzled' ( For what are they puzzled? / What are the police going to do with the boy's disappearance and how?)

Are you curious about why the writer uses a non-complete sentence as a title? Do you know it's a feature of a news title? What are the other features of a news title?

Can you guess what details may be covered in the following news story?

* Reading comprehension

1 Before asking students to skim the passage, let them look at the news photographs first and describe as much as possible what is happening in the photograph. And then let them find answers to the questions in A.

Answers 1 The article is about a missing boy / UFOs and aliens.

　　　　　2 Justin Foster is missing. 3 No.

2 Ask students to recall the question in Lead-in and ask them if they have got specific answers to "How / When / Where was the boy missing?" The teacher can guide students to pay attention to the first paragraph, as all the relevant information is in the first paragraph. Tell them the first