江苏省苏州市高中英语 Unit1 boy missingpolice puzzled Reading公开课教案.doc

module2 unit1 reading teaching aims:1. make the students know typical writing features in news articles.2. make the students learn how to read a newspaper article and how to get the important information in it.3. encourage the students to express themselves in both written and oral english so that their language learning abilities can be enhanced.teaching procedures:step 1 lead-in warm-up questions:1. do you often read newspapers? (often, seldom ) 2. 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?1.3. have you ever noticed there are differences in writing styles between newspaper articles and other kind of articles you read? pictures: give the students two pictures of news in the newspaper and encourage them to summarize the features of a title. pair work: now look at the pictures from our reading text and connect them with the topic “boy missing, police puzzled”. use your imagination and guess what happened in the story according to the information we get from the topic and the pictures. work with your partner and then share your story with the rest of the class. 1. can you tell me the feature of a news title? lets take the passage were going to learn as an example, the title is “boy missing, police puzzled”, whats special? (the title of a news story is usually incomplete, attractive, exact and direct ) 2. can you complete the title? (“a boy is missing, and the police are puzzled”)3. what information can you get from the title? (how/when/where was the boy missing?; why are the police puzzled?). tell the students a news story will cover such details as what, when, where, who, how and why about a certain event. summary:im sure you definitely want to know what really happened in the news story to check your imagination, but before reading the story, i should tell you how a news story is organized so that you may catch the important information in it more easily.step 2 reading strategy:learn the structure of a news story and teach the reading skills of news stories.1. the structure of a news story the title: to give a general idea of the news the first paragraph: to give the main topic and the most important facts like when, where, who, what , why and how about the event; the second paragraph: to give more important facts the following paragraphs: to give detailed but less important background information2. the reading skills of news stories for general ideas, read the topic if any and the first one or two paragraphs; for details, read the rest of the story.step 3 skimming& scanningtell the students its time for them to check their imagination of the story. ask the whole class to skim and scan the passage, trying to find the answers to the following. boy missing, police puzzled its about _ the first paragraph: when_; where_; who_; what_; how_; why_ the following paragraphs: evidence given by_step 4 detailed reading1. since every news story will have details to support the main points in them. get the students to read the passage carefully and find the supporting details. read paragraph 2 and find the main idea as well as the supporting details:main point 1: justin foster returned home.supporting details: who believed he was back?_ read paragraphs 3-8 and find the main idea as well as the supporting details:(ppt12)main point 2: justin foster went missing.supporting details: mrs. foster thought justin foster main point 3: justin foster was taken away by aliens.supporting details: kelly saw kelly heard mavis wood said (the police found that justin returned home; that justin went home after playing baseball with them; that they saw justin walking towards his home at 10:45 p.m.; him put on his favourite cd after he went to his room.) please rearrange the statements according to the order of time.whats the right order of the sentences?( ) justin did not show up at the family lunch the next day.( ) kelly heard justin return home. ( ) justin left home to play baseball with his two friends.( ) justin was seen walking towards his home at 10.45 p.m.( ) kelly heard justin shout.( ) kelly saw a bright light outside her window.6 3 1 2 5 4step 5 consolidation1. get the students to summarize the story they have just read by filling in the blanks. justin foster went 1 last friday night. he didnt 2 3 at the family lunch the next day. that evening, justin 4 home after the game. 5 also said they saw justin walking towards his home. justins sister, kelly 6 him 7 8 his 9 cd and she also saw a large spaceship 10 outside. she heard justin 11 . mavis wood said that she was 12 13 by 14 . they did some 15 on her. the whole 16 . was terrible.police have not 17 18 the possibility that justin was taken away by aliens. detective sam peterson was 19 20 21 the case.(missing; show up; returned; witnesses; heard; put on; favorite; flying; shout; taken; away; aliens; research; experience; found; in fact; ruled out; in charge of)2. group work: interview time: work in groups of 4, one as the reporter and the rest act as kelly, mrs marvis wood and detective sam peterson, using the expressions on the screen to get the help.step 6 discussionstudents are encouraged to choose one of them to discuss it with their partners and then share their answers with the others.1. do you believe that justin was really taken away by the aliens