江苏省淮安市清河中学高中英语译林牛津版必修2unit1Talesoftheunexplained学案.docVIP

第  PAGE 5 页 共  NUMPAGES 5 页 Unit 1 Tales of the unexplained Module 2 Reading: Boy missing, Police puzzled Period 1 Teaching Content：Reading The general idea of this period： In this period, we will read a news story about a 15-year-old boy who went missing two days ago, and people show great interest in his strange disappearance due to sightings of sightings of lights in the sky and reports of aliens’ visits around the time of disappearance. Teaching Objectives： 1. Train the students’ reading ability. 2. Learn some useful words and expressions. Teaching important and difficult points： 1. Help the students to understand the passage. 2. Learn and master some important words and phrases 3. How to help the students improve their reading ability and understand the passage better. Teaching Approaches ： 1. Fast reading to get the main idea of the reading passage. 2. Careful reading to understand the passage better. 3. Discussion to help the students understand what they’ve learnt better. Teaching Aids： a tape recorder and a multimedia Teaching time：1 period Teaching procedures： Step 1: Greetings and lead-in 1. Greet the whole class as usual 2. Get the students to answer the following question: Do you really believe in aliens? Why? Step 2: Reading strategy Ask students the following by having them focus on the title of the article, Boy missing, police puzzled. Does the title arouse your interest when you read it? Can you complete the title? What information can you get from the title? What else do you want to know? For example, ‘boy missing’ (How/When/Where was the boy missing?) ‘police puzzled’ (Why are they puzzled?/What are the police going to do about the boy’s disappearance and How?) Are you curious about why the writer uses an incomplete sentence as the title? Did you know that it is a feature of a news title? What are some other features of a news title? (Get students to discuss and talk about the questions above) T: The