M２ Unit 1 Tales of the unexplained （ Reading 1 ）
Thoughts on the design:
本节课为阅读课的第一课时，主要是解决对课文内容的理解和学习有关阅读技巧。本文的体裁是新闻报道，从title和五个“W”一个“H”这几个方面构画出新闻报道清晰的框架结构并教学生如何阅读此类文章，如何在此类文章中捕捉所需要的信息。通过预测、略读和寻读等常规技巧，了解课文内容。
Learning aims:
1. Learn to know typical writing features in news articles
2. Learn how to read a newspaper article and how to get the important information in it.
Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in
● Warm-up questions:
1. Do you often read newspapers?
2. Have you ever noticed there are differences in writing styles between newspaper articles and other kind of articles you read?
3. Can you tell me the feature of a news title? What’s special?
4. Can you complete the title? What information can you get from the title?
Step 2 Reading strategy:
Learn the structure of a news story and the reading skills of news stories.
● the title● the first paragraph● the second paragraph
●the following paragraphs ●general ideas, details.
Step 3 Skimming & Scanning
●Boy missing, police puzzled It’s about ________
● the first paragraph: when______; where_______; who________; what________; how______; why________
● the following paragraphs: evidence given by______________
Step 4 Detailed reading
● Read paragraph 2 and find the main idea as well as the supporting details:
Main idea: __________________________________________________________
Supporting details: who believed he was back?
__________________________________________________________
● Read paragraphs 3--8 and find the main idea and the supporting details:
● Main idea:
Supporting details:
Friends said_________________________________________________________
Witnesses said ____________________________________________
Kelly heard _____________________________________________
2. Find the best answers to the following questions:
（1）The reason why people were interested in the disappearance of the boy is that ______.
A . The lost boy was 15 years old.
B. The police advised them to do so.
C. The disappearance might have something to do with the UFO and the alien.
D. All of the above.
（2）In the seventh paragraph, “show up” means _______.
A. arrive or appear B. reach C. disappear D. reach for
（3）We can infer that the boy might go missing _______.
A. in his own room B. on the playground
C. in Kelly’s room D. in his brother’s room
（4）What is the attitude of the police to the disappearance of the boy?
A. They can’t make sure that Justin was taken away by aliens.
B. They think it possible for some people to make up an amazing story.
C. They are looking at other possibilities, such as murder.
D. All of the above.
（5）We can know _____.
A. The police have known the cause of the boy’s disappearance
B. The police haven’t found convincing evidence about the boy’s disappearance
C. The police will catch the aliens who took away the boy
D. The police won’t get any information about the boy’s disappearance.
●1. Summarize the story you have just read by filling in the blanks. Justin Foster went ___1__ last Friday night. He didn’t 2 3
at the family lunch the next day.
That evening, Justin 4 home after the game. 5 also said they saw Justin walking towards his home. Justin’s sister, Kelly 6 him 7 8 his 9 CD and she also saw a large spaceship 10 outside. She heard Justin 11 .
Mavis Wood said that she was 12 13 by 14 . They did some 15 on her. The whole 16 was terrible.
Police have not 17 18 the possibility that Justin was taken away by aliens. Detective Sam Peterson was 19 20 21 the case.
Step 6 Discussion
1. Do you believe that Justin was really taken away by the aliens? Why or why not? Suppose you were taken away by the aliens, what would you do?
Step 7 Assignment
1. All the people are concerned about Justin’s disappearance. What do you think might have happened to him? Please give an ending to the story.
