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Module 6 Book 4 Reading—The Monster of Lake Tianchi Teaching Design Teaching aims To guide the students to read and get some information from the text To help the students to learn to describe some mysterious things in our world Step 1 Warming up by talking about Lake Tianchi and its monster (3minutes) Ask the students to look at some pictures of Lake Tianchi and share some information about it , and then use another picture to bring in the topic The Monster of Lake Tianchi and arouse the students’ interest. Step 2 Fast reading 1) Ask the students to read the beginning of the text and decide where the text comes from. (individual work, 2minutes) A tourist guide A newspaper A dictionary A scientific journal Then check the answer : B 2) Then ask the students to go through the text quickly and find a sentence from the text which shows the main idea of it. Then check the answer (individual work, 3minutes). Answer: The “monster of Lake Tianchi” in the Changbai Mountains in Jilin province , northeast China, is back in the news after several recent sightings. Step 3 Reading for details 1) Ask the students to read the text carefully and answer the following questions. Then check the answers one by one. ① How many sightings of the monster does the article report? ② Who saw the monster clearly, and why? ③ Which description of the monster is most detailed? ④ When was the monster first sighted? ⑤ What do many people think about the monster? ⑥ What do scientists think about the monster? Answers: ① Three. ( Para. 1, 2 and 3.) ② Li Xiaohe and his family. Because the weather was fine and the lake was calm. (Line 8 Para. 3 ) ③ The soldiers’ description . (Para. 2) ④ Since the beginning of the last century. (Line 2 Para. 4) ⑤ They think it may be a distant cousin of the Loch Ness monster in Scotland. (Line 7 Para.4) ⑥ They think the low- temperature lake is unlikely to be able to support such large living creature. (The last sentence in Par