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M1U2 Reading?Home alone Teaching Aims: To develop the skills of how to read a play To know about American family life and problems that happen between American teenagers and their parents To form a positive attitude towards solving problems between teenagers and parents Teaching Important Difficult Points: Learn to analyze the emotions of each character from the instructions of the play. Teaching Methods: Discussion in pairs or in groups; task-based in-class activities; explanations of some language points Teaching Aids: a multimedia classroom; a tape-recorder Teaching Procedures: StepⅠRevision and Lead-in. Check the homework. Get students to think about the following questions: Have you ever watched the famous American TV comedy “Growing Pains”? Could you list some of the members of the family? (Show them a photo and tell them the family members.) Maggie, Dr. Jason, Ben, Mike and Carol What do you think of the play? It was popular during the 1960s and 1970s in America. It was about common family problems in America. The father was a doctor and the mother was a reporter. The oldest child was Mike. He was the important reason for the program’s huge success…….. If you were left alone, can you imagine what might happen? Step Ⅱ Fast Reading Reading strategy: reading a play From Unit 1, we have learned two of the basic reading skills, skimming and scanning. When reading different styles and formats of articles, readers usually use different ways of reading in order to know about the main ideas of the article within the shortest time. Bacon once said, some books are to be chewed; some are to be swallowed; some are to be digested. So can you tell me how to read an English play? Some points about a play: (1) It is often in the form of a dialogue. (2) It usually includes several acts, and each act can have several scenes. (3) The words or speeches in a play are every informal, and some of the words in a sentence are omitted. (4) There are some helpful instr