M2U1Reading.doc

Unit one Period 2 Reading
Boy missing, police puzzled
The analysis of this part:
The reading text is a news story about a boy, whose disappearance was thought to be connected with a UFO. Though a lot of effort has been made to investigate the case, it still remains a mystery.
The reading strategy of this unit enables students to become familiar with typical writing features in news articles and acquaint themselves with effective ways of reading those articles.
Teaching aims:
1. Checking and enhancing Ss’s reading abilities.
2. Help Ss gain an overall understanding of the article.
3. Help Ss learn to read in different ways according to the types of the article they’re reading.
Teaching methods:
1. Listening and reading
2. Pair work
Teaching procedures:
Step one: Lead-in
Teacher stars the lesson by raising the following questions:
1) What can you guess from the title? Can you complete the title?
2) Are you curious about why the writer uses an incomplete sentence as the tile?
3) Do you know it is a feature of a news title? What are some of other features of a news title?
Step two: Fast reading
1. Ask Ss to read the story quickly and finish doing Part A.
2. Ask Ss to describe the pictures before reading
3. Suggested answers:
The title is about a missing boy, UFOs and alients.
Justin Foster is missing.
The police don’t know what happened to him.
Step three: Reading strategy
Before Ss do the careful reading, they are asked to go through the reading strategy on page 3.
Pay attention to some phrases about lead
take the lead in doing sth.
be/have/ gain the lead in the race 在赛跑中领先
take/ lose the lead 带头/落后
lead story
lead-led-led-leading lead a happy life
lead to This misprint led to great confusion.
Step four: Careful reading
1. Ask Ss to read or listen to the tape and finish doing Part C
2. Tell Ss that the first paragraph gives the main idea and the most important facts. Ask students read it and answer the following questions:
1) When and where was the boy missing?
2) What caused the boy’s sudden disappearance?
3) How old was the boy?
4) Why did people show interest in this disappearance?
3. Ask Ss to finish Part C1 and C2.
4. Suggested answers:
Step five : Consolidation and Homework
1. Ask Ss to finish Part E
2. Ask Ss to preview reading part on page 90-91

Period 3 Reading
Teaching aims:
1. Help Ss learn more about the story
2. Help Ss grasp the usage of the words and expressions
Teaching procedures:
Step one: language points on page 2-3
1. ordinary common usual
2. Step up
3. Search
4. go missing
5. show great interest in
6. disappear—disappearance appear ----appearance
7. due to
8. sightings
9. puzzle ---puzzled---puzzling
10. show up
11. in fact
12. witness
13. put on
14. go straight to his room..
15. according to
16. pull back
17. Standing inside were …….(表语提前用全部倒装)
18. so that
19. see, hear, notice, watch, keep, find, get, have, feel, look at, listen to , catch, send + n. + 复合宾语
20. do research on sb. do research into/ on sth.
21. have been doing
22. rule out
23. look into
24. make up
25. take charge of
26. convince—convinced—convincing
Step two: Consolidation and Homework
Translation:
1. When John realized eh was going to be late he stepped up his pace.
2. The search for the missing man has not been successful.
3. He walked through the desert in search of the lost camel.
4. She went crazy when she found out that she had failed the exam.
5. He began to show an interest in politics during high schools.
6. He arrived late due to the unexpected storm.
7. We’ve been waiting for hours for you to show up.
8. I have often thought of doing research on the problems.
9. The police are looking into the records of all those involved in the crime.
10. The teacher asked Ss to make up an amazing story about alients.