二模块1单元reading-2课时.doc

Unit 1 reading
祖军武、朱丽、万力新、李爱贞、方颖
Teaching objectives:
1. To help Ss know the way of writing a newspaper article
2. To develop students’ ability of reading a newspaper article
3. To master some useful words and expressions
Important and difficult points:
The way of writing a newspaper article and the way of reading it

Teaching procedures:
Step 1 Lead-in:
Get students to think about the following questions:
1. Do you really believe in aliens? Why?
2. Show a short video to the students and let them discuss what it is like in their eyes?
Today we will come to a missing boy who was said to be taken away by UFO. Let’s listen to the report and tell whether it is believable or unbelievable.
Step 2 Reading
1. Listen to the tape and finish A
2. Read through the whole text in details and finish C1&2 (scanning)
3. Fill in the blanks for self-evaluation (scanning)
4. Let Ss finish D according to the text and let them ask more if possible (careful reading)
Step 3 Reading strategy
This is a typical news story.
1. Do you often read newspapers?
2. What kind of news do you like to read, sports news, entertainment news, economic news…?
3. How do you select the news you like to read, by taking a look at its title or by being attracted by its colorful pictures?
4. Is there anything wrong with the title according to the grammar? (the title is incomplete)
5. What is a complete title?

6. Why did the writer use an incomplete sentence as its title? (brief)
7. Can you name some other features of a news title? (you can also show more titles found in the newspapers at the same time)
8. How to write and read a news article?
9.

Step 4 language points
1. ask Ss to ask what they don’t know?
2. make a supplement
Step 5 Homework
1. read the news article again to make sure that you can use your own words to retell the story
2. review the new words and phrases in this text
3. finish the exercises in the workbook
4. choose a piece of English news, using the strategy we learned today to take some notes about its title, when, where, who, how, what, why…