1、M2 Unit1 Reading
Boy missing, police puzzled
He Ying
Zhenjiang Experimental High School
Teaching Aims:
1. Check and enhance students’ reading abilities.
2. Help students to gain an overall understanding of the article.
3. Help students to learn how to read a news article.
Teaching imp
2、ortant and difficult points:
1. Help students to learn how to read a news article.
2. Help the students improve their reading ability and understand the passage better
Teaching methods:
1. Pair work 2. Group work 3.Cooperatation 4.Discussion
Teaching aids: Multimedia
Teaching procedures:
3、Step 1 Lead-in
Show students some pictures about mysterious things on the screen and ask them to have a short discussion with their partner about these questions to arouse their interest.
Step 2 Reading strategy
1. Features of News titles
2. How to re
4、ad a newspaper article.
Step 3 Skimming and scanning
Use the strategy to read the whole passage quickly, and answer some questions.
Step 4 Detailed reading
1. Who are mentioned in the article?
2. What is the relationship between he/she and the missing boy?
3. What do they think or say about
5、 the boy’s disappearance?
5. Order the sentences
6. Find the best answers
Step 5 Group work
Interviewing
Suppose you are a reporter from BBC. You are making a face-to-face interview with characters in the news article
Step 6 Summary and Assignment
Write an end to the news story.
Was the boy really taken by aliens? If so, how would they treat him?
Or did something else happen?