Unit1 Tales of unexplained

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Unit1 Tales of unexplained
The first period
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Step 1 Free talk
The world we live in is full of mysterious things
unsolved by todays advanced science and
technology. You must have heard of a UFO, the
pyramids, and so on Have you heard of some
strange things? Have you come across them?
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Step 2 Lead in
Have you seen the film about E.T. ?
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Look at the pictures. Do you know why they come
to the earth? What will they do on the earth?
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Step 3 Posters

• About UFOs What do the letters UFO stand for?

Unidentified Flying Object
Are they really from another planet? Why?
Read out more information about it.
(2) About Yetis Himalayas
the highest mountain range in the world
Why do some people make great efforts to climb
them?
Abominable Snowman, half-man and half-beast.
Yeti
(3) About Lock Ness Monster
Where is Lock Ness?
What is it famous for?
What does the Loch Ness Monster look like?
a sunken ship or a kind of dinosaur?
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Step 3 Posters
(4) About Stonehenge
(5) About pyramids
Where were these pyramids built, on the east
coast of the Nile or on the west coast? What are
the reasons?
Do you think the Great Pyramid is a wonder in
human history?
One of them the Sphinx---Half human, half lion,
the Sphinx is 240 feet long and 66 feet high.
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Step 4 Group Discussion
1 Do you believe in unexplained things
mentioned above? Why or why not?

• If you saw a UFO or a monster some day, what
  would you
• do?

Step 5 Language points
1. Advanced (adj.) advance (v.)
2. Run into
3.Translation of some phrases
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Step 6 Homework

• Surf the net and learn more about world
  mysteries.

Prepare a short speech (better in Power point) to
introduce something that interests you
2 Make a scale model of the Great Pyramid under
the
following guidelines and bring it to the class.
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Unit 1 Boy missing, police puzzled
The second period
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Step1 Revision
1 Can you introduce some other mysteries?
2 show your pictures about the Great Pyramid
Step2 Fast reading
1 Look at the title and think Is it a
complete sentence? If not, can you complete it?
2 Read the text quickly and find the answers to
the following questions
1) What is the article about?
2) Who is missing?
3) Do the police know what happened to Justin?
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Step2 Fast reading
3 Pair work
Ask and answer questions in pairs with the
information in the first paragraph.
Step3 Detailed reading
1 Read the text carefully and then answer the
following questions.
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Questions
1). Where does Justin Foster live? 2). Why did
Justins mother go to bed early? 3). What sports
does Justin play? 4). What time did the witness
see Justin walking home? 5). Does Justin has any
brothers and sisters? 6). What colours were the
aliens? 7). Who else has been taken away by the
aliens? 8). Who is in charge of the case?
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2 Listen and find out the supporting details
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Step 4 language points
1 step up increase ??/?? eg. We should step up
our pace ,or well be late for home. 2 search
for look for ?? eg. Our teacher ask us to
search information on Internet. 3 show interest
in be interested in ??? eg. The little boy
showed interest in paiting. 4 due to because of
/owing to ??/?? eg. The accident is due to his
carelessness. 5 go missing be lost/gone eg.
The miss missed. Do you miss her? 6 according to
??. According to their report, young people
today in China are taller than those 20 years
ago by 6cm.
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Step 4 language points
7 do research on ?? eg. We did research on
plants in biological classes. 8 get frightened
???? eg. Whenever seeing scary films, he gets
frightened. 9 rule out ?? eg. We can rule out
choice A because of the meaning. 10 look into??
eg. The school leaders are looking into this
matter. 11make up ??/?? eg. Who can make up a
story according to the pictures? 12take charge of
??/?? eg. Its my father who takes charge of
the company.
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Step5 Consolidation
Ask them to read the text carefully and then fill
in the blanks
Police in America have stepped up their
_______for a fifteen-year-old boy who went
_________two days ago in Dover, New Hampshire
People have shown great __________in his
_______________ due to sightings of ____________
lights in the sky and reports of _______ visits
around the time of his disappearance. His parents
didnt find his missing until the second day
because he didnt ________up at the family lunch
.His mother thought that he was spending the
night with a __________ however he didnt tell
anyone that he was _______out late .His Sister
told she heard him ________home at about 11.pm
and then he went ________to his bedroom and was
heard to _____ on his CD. At the same time, a
bright ______appeared outside her window and it
was ______ and ______ closer. And Mavis Wood said
he was ______away by aliens. Police have not
______out the __________ that Justin was taken
away by aliens, but were also look into other
___________.
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Step 6 Discussion
If he were taken away by aliens, how do you think
they would treat him?                     
Step7 Homework
1.Read another piece of news according to the
reading strategy 2.Finish the workbook
exercises. 3.Translate some sentences into
English. 4.Read the text again and again after
class. 5.collect the information about some
mysterious phenomena and share the information
with your classmates.