北师大高二英语教学（必修5）Unit 13教案 3 Guessing about People.docVIP

3 Making Guesses about People Objectives ■ To practise using modals for speculation. ■ To distinguish between modals used for decision, advice and speculation. Resources used Grammar Summary 2. Possible problems Students may use “can” to speculate, with the same meaning as “may”. Students may also have problems with the ordinary, progressive and perfective infinitives after modals. Routes through the material If you are short of time, set Exercise 9 for homework and omit Exercise 11. If you have time, do the Options activities. If you have two periods for this lesson, a suitable natural break is after Exercise 6. Listening Before you start Exercise 1 ■ Students work in groups talking about TV news they are most interested in. ■ Some of the students then share their interests with the class. Listen to learn Exercise 2 ■ Students read through the dialogue quickly to get an idea of the situation before they start listening. ■ Play the cassette once for students to listen and then again for them to complete the gaps.Answers 1 frightened 2 separated 3 fallen 4 freezing 5 sheltering 6 some food 7 worried Tapescript A: Have you heard anything today about the two missing students? I think my cousin might know one of them. B: I heard about it from the news report on TV last night, but haven’t heard about anything more since then. A: Some of their friends are really upset and have been waiting anxiously for more news. B: I can’t believe that they’ve been missing on the mountain for 3 days now! They must be so frightened! A: I wonder how they got lost. B: They may have been separated from the other students in that storm. Or they might have fallen behind and taken the wrong path. A: Maybe. Or they could have gone exploring on their own and lost their way back to the group. B: It makes me shiver just thinking of them right now. It’s so cold at the moment. They must be freezing! A: They might be sheltering in a cave. B: Or they could be in one of those deserted cottag