高一英语外研版必修4：Module 6 Period 1 introduction（Module6 Unexplained Mysteries of the Natural World）.docVIP

The topic of this module is “Unexplained Mysteries of the Natural World”.Related information is introduced through reading and listening.The reading part gives a brief introduction of The Monster of Lake Tianchi while the listening part shows how dinosaurs disappeared.The vocabulary,sentence patterns,grammar,the main content of the context as well as the students’ activities such as listening,speaking,reading and writing and so on all develop around this topic.The teacher can design and organize such activities as organizing students to search for more information about mysteries of natural world. Introduction This part is made up of two activities,the first of which introduce pictures of four different mysterious monsters as well as the relative descriptions about them.And Activity 2 presents some vocabulary based on the descriptions above,which not only is of great help to the students but also lays foundation for the central theme of this module. Reading and Vocabulary This passage gives a brief introduction of The Monster of Lake Tianchi.Through the study of this part,the students are demanded:(1) to guess where the passage comes from (tour guide,dictionary,newspaper as well as scientific magazines) by reading the beginning paragraph;(2) to master the main information of this passage;(3) to correctly understand the new words according to the context.And four exercises concerning the content and vocabulary of the passage are designed.By doing these exercises the students can have a good understanding of the content of this passage and learn some words related to the content of this passage. Speaking In this part the students work in pairs to perform a role-play game in the form of carrying out an interview,in which they can get a chance to practice asking and answering.One plays the role of an interviewer and asks his partner for some information concerning the monster appeared in Lake Tianchi,the other gives relative replies.So this part consolidates the reading