Unit 1 Tales of the unexplained

Period 7 Project: Telling about an unexplained mystery

The analysis of this part:

The project is designed to help students learn and use English by doing a group project. The reading material about Yeti is a sample for Ss to see how a mysterious story can be written. Ss are encouraged to write a story on one of the five mysteries in the section welcome to the unit.

Teaching aims:

1. Encourage Ss to use what they have learnt in this unit to complete the project.

2. Help Ss discuss what mystery they want to write a story about, and collect as much information as they can..

Teaching methods:

1. Reading

2. Pair or group work.

Teaching procedures:

Step one: Fast Reading

Questions for Ss to answer after reading:

1) In which years were Yetis seen?

2) Where have Yetis or similar creatures been seen?

3) What has been reported about Yetis, Bigfoot or the Wild Man of Shennongjia?

4) What scientists think of these creatures?

Step two: Careful reading

Ask Ss to find the main idea of each paragraph and find the connections between them.

Para 1: Reports about seeing Yetis in the Himalayas for hundreds of years

Para 2: An eyewitness to a Yeti in 1998

Para 3: Another eyewitness who saw Yeti tracks in 2007, which looked like the tracks of Bigfoot in the USA

Para 4: Reports about the Wild Man in Shennongjia and the similarity of Yeti, Bigfoot and the Wild Man in shengnongjia